Hello! My yellow lab puppy is almost 18 weeks. We brought her home a little over a week ago. Crate training is going extremely well! She loves her kennel, goes in on command and even on her own. She does great with forced naps in her crate and sleeps in it overnight. Has no issues when we leave the house and she’s crated. Potty training is also going really well and she hasn’t had any accidents since we got more consistent with the crate a few days after bringing her home.
I know puppies need a lot of sleep and she’s right on par with the recommendations but I feel bad that she’s in the crate so much. When she’s out, we spend most of our time outside running around and playing or working on commands. We’ve tried letting her free from the crate (we have a small living area that’s open concept so it’s easy to keep track of where she is) but she just goes into full landshark mode and will try to eat EVERYTHING. She also gets really excited being out of her crate and will jump on my toddler and get the zoomies every single time. We never use the crate as punishment, but we’ll try and redirect and the only thing that truly helps her calm down is her crate.
So anyway… how long do I keep doing this? Like I said, I feel bad she’s in there so much but she’s just insane when she’s out of it. 😭
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