I had an apartment and then a new neighbor moved in next door. She put her dog in a cage that was in her bedroom closet. That bedroom closet was on the wall opposite my headboard side of my bed. Of course, when she went to work that dog would bark all day. I attempted to complain to the apartment manager but guess what happened? Nothing happened because that apartment manager also had a dog that she put in a cage and kept in her apartment while she was away.
In a different apartment I was on the ground floor. There was a lady above me who would let her dog do its business on her concrete patio which was above mine and then she would sweep it over the edge until my patio below looked like a minefield of dog turds.
Dogs need yards and should not be locked up in a cage or in an apartment nor should their barking invade the space of others.
If you own a dog, live in an apartment, and the noise from that dog’s barking is inside the apartments of your neighbors then you are a shitty inconsiderate person!
That first paragraph is kind of a roundabout way of telling everyone you don’t own a dog or understand crating.
The other stuff is 100% the owners just sucking, but keeping a dog in a crate when nobody is home is not one of them.
It seems to be a rather lazy way to deal with a dog. Instead of training them and just dealing with what might happen as a result of owning a dog (some stuff getting chewed), people just lock them up in cages.
You’re literally locking your dog in a cage for hours on end. If you have to resort to that you’ve definitely failed as an owner. How that’s even legal in some places is beyond me.
Putting them in a cage to limit their stimuli is part of training.
I have never heard that about crating, what’s the story there?
It’s to ween them from separation anxiety and create a safe place for them to go to feel calm. If done correctly, eventually you wouldn’t have to leave them locked in the cage while you’re gone because if they get anxious, they will just go into the crate willingly to chill out.
Nothing about that requires a crate, though. Not inherently.
They are descendants of animals that lived in dens. You’re not supposed to put your dog in a crate when it doesn’t want to be there. You introduce the crate with the door open and use dog treats to entice your dog to go inside. You gradually train your dog to go in and stay in, usually they are motivated by food and it reinforces their behavior. Once they have been crate trained they love it and it is their comfortable safe space. You never put a dog in a crate that it doesn’t want to be in, it makes them not like the crate. Each dog will have a different amount of time that they are comfortable in a crate. You can’t just put them there as long as you want.
Fucked up and lazy sounding form of “training” you guys have.