I don’t like the crates. I find them to be little prison cells.
But then I get to thinking. Dog houses. Not much difference between a crate and a dog house.
Maybe I just don’t like the look of a crate. Maybe it’s the plastic. Maybe it’s the metal bars. Maybe it’s because I find them ugly.
A crate is a good thing if you travel and the pet is used to a crate. It would consider it as a mobile home. Less stress all around.
ok, crates are good. they’re just ugly.
I hate PETA and I hate dog crates. What a dilemma!
The crates don’t have to be ugly. You can slide one under a table, put a pretty floor-length table-cloth over the table, and it can look nice.
I have one dog who, though allegedly crate-trained when I got him at 9 weeks, would damage himself trying to get out of a crate. It was not a good idea to continue to work on this. Other dogs adored their crates and didn’t have to be trained. Most of them preferred to sleep on my bed or the loveseat in my bedroom, but would go into the crate for a nap.
And when my good girl died a few months ago, her brother mourned by lying in her crate with his eyes staring into nothingness for weeks.