Product DescriptionThe only book of its kind to focus exclusively on crate training, this title provides easy-to-follow, thorough instructions on how to safely, humanely, and effectively crate train a dog.
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Helpful information and tips (Rating: 4 out of 5) This book has been helpful in its tips on how to: choose a crate, introduce your pup to the crate, and the schedule required so that your pup doesn't soil itself in the crate. We find that we still refer to the book every now and then for help on some issues. We found that a blanket or toy helped our pup immediately take to the crate. Also, Cesar Millan's approach to crating helped a lot too (like not making a big deal of leaving or coming home). Now our pup goes to its crate when it's tired or afraid -- or when it tries to sneak a shoe away. :-)
crate training/housebreaking your puppy (Rating: 5 out of 5) we were having troubles training our new puppy until we read this book. We immediately recognized we needed a smaller crate and that it's ok to have the puppy stay there until we were ready for him. Once we changed crates he started sleeping through the night, he stopped soiling his crate and he's now about 80% on track for voiding outside. This is a winner.
Not Worth The Money (Rating: 2 out of 5) This really contained very info on actual crate training. The majority of the book talked about introducing your puppy to the crate not a lot of info on actual crate training process. You can get just as much info googling about crate training on the web.
Easy and Helpful (Rating: 5 out of 5) We bought & read this book in anticipation of our new puppy - the book was insightful, helpful, and extremely fast and easy reading. The information worked wonders. We have since gotten another puppy and used the same techniques on him too. We continue get compliments on our well behaved dogs.
My sister just welcomed a new puppy into her family and my first response upon hearing the news was to order this book for her. If the information in this book is taken to heart - it will work wonders.
Great! (Rating: 5 out of 5) A great booklet for teaching crate training in a positive manner! Great for the new dog owner or for giving in training classes!