The best way to crate training a puppy is to show your puppy the crate and let him or her have a good sniff around it so your puppy can get used to it, never rush your puppies crate training because all you will achieve is your puppy being frightened or stressed when in the crate. Which is not what you want at all, it's not meant to be a prison! Just a nice safe and stress-free place where your puppy can go to get away from it all and relax.

Also crate training a puppy is very useful if you have to leave your puppy alone for any length of time, you can also be safe and secure in the knowledge that your puppy is not destroying your home while your not there!

So how exactly do you crate train a puppy? Well like I said before you really need to introduce the crate to the puppy slowly, you could put your puppy's favourite toy in the crate and let your puppy play with it, while keeping the crate door open so it knows it can get out of there any time he or she wants and that should eventually get your puppy used to being in the crate.

Once your puppy is used to being in the crate with the crate door open you can start to shut the crate door for short periods of time at first, and then slowly increase the amount of time until your puppy can comfortably be in the crate without being overly stressed or upset.
You will know when you have cracked crate training a puppy when he or she goes into their crate all by themselves without you having to tell them to go in there or even having to put them in there yourself.

Now you can go out knowing that your puppy is safe and your home is safe and not being chewed to bits! Just a note after crate training a puppy never use the crate to punish your puppy! or leave your puppy in the crate for too long a time as apart from just being cruel! it will begin to hate the crate and will never want to go in there ever again!.

If you really, really must go out for an extended period of time then do not forget to leave enough water and food for your puppy, we don't want him or her getting to dehydrated.

Follow the simple steps above and you should have no problems training your puppy to use it's crate!

If you have a puppy that is really difficult to train and the above recommendations do not work then you might want to consider getting this puppy training book that will show you how to train any type of puppy no-matter how difficult your puppy is, you should have good success with it!

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