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SHOES.
omg shoes.
🤯
She is performing very well in her new role as shoe wrangler.
I mean, you’re always gonna know where your ‘missing’ shoes are.
Lets see a roomba do that!
I don’t like dogs but this is adorable.
Why is there a cage?
You mean toy chest?
For real though, sometimes you need a place to keep them safe while you clean up broken glass or have someone work on your home.
I got one for my boy, but it turned into a toy chest and he lives in the kitchen with a baby gate.
Also, dogs like to have a safe place they can go to that feels like their own. I’ve seen dogs go into their cages with the door open just to relax plenty of times.
Who told you this nonsense?
In case you’re not simply trolling, most dogs need some sort of “den.” For my sister’s dog, that meant lying under tables, desks, etc. For my dogs growing up, it was their plastic igloo in the backyard.
My wife and I got our first current foster fail right after San Antonio’s snowpocalypse. We’d told ourselves that we wouldn’t bring home a dog that day, but we were told she was being put down the next day, so we said we’d take her home and asked for a kennel (you’re required to have a kennel for your foster dogs). The shelter said they were out of kennels after the big freeze, so, while my wife worked on the paperwork, I called every pet store in town, looking for an oversized kennel to give our pup lots of space. We ended up driving 40 miles round trip to get a large kennel, took our new 3 year-old puppy home, and introduced her to the apartment. Then, I brought in the kennel and set it up. I’d barely backed out of the kennel after setting up the blankets before this sweet little girl went straight inside, her tail wagging for the first time after coming home with us, and comfortably snuggled down.
Now, we have two dogs and that same kennel. We don’t actually close them in that kennel anymore, so I pulled the door off of it. Every day, multiple times per day, they’ll each go into the kennel and just relax. When there have been really bad storms, we’ve draped blankets over the kennel so the one who’s scared of thunder can have a safe space. When the two of them have played with each other too much and one wants a break, they’ll go lay in the kennel.
Dogs choose kennels naturally. Humans put doors on the kennels for convenience and safety. When you have a new dog, and haven’t trained them yet to stay away from the cleaning supply cabinet, closing them in a kennel while you’re away for a few hours gives them a safe space in which they can nap while you don’t have to worry as much about them hurting themselves.
I just wanna x2 this.
Yeah, its totally normal for many dogs to see a kind of kennel as essentially ‘their bedroom’.
Now, my family and myself have raised a few dogs, always after adopting them.
We didn’t use kennels often, just beds in a kind of nook or cranny of the house/apartment. We’d only use kennels if they were so rambunctious that they became problematically instrusive to another dog’s bed zone.
(We’d just stagger an older dog, and a younger dog, usually 3-5 years apart in age)
Only one of them was actually afraid of kennels, and thats because the home we adopted her from…
Not only did they physically abuse her by letting toddler humans try to ride this under 1.5 yo dog like a horse, they also put her kennel in the cold, unlit, garage, and would just forget her there, without food or water, sometimes soiling herself from not being let out in over 24 hrs.
That dog legitimately had PTSD her whole life… she only ever actually barked maybe 5 times in her whole life, because the first 1.5 yrs of her life, she got smacked every time she barked, by these original owner people.
Otherwise she’d do this kind of mumbling, internally suppressed bark. Nothing was wrong with her voicebox, we checked. She just legit had PTSD, and the few times she did get so concerned or excited that she did actually bark, she would then also begin full body quivering, expecting someone to hit her.
We obviously never did that. Goddamnit, I loved that dog.
So anyway, basically, thats the level of fucked up and horrible you have to be to a dog, to make them genuinely afraid of kennels.
But yeah, if you are not horrible demon people who use a dog kennel as a dog torture device, then yeah, most dogs will just view them as basically their bedroom.
This is complete nonsense, I’ve never seen a dog in a crate in my whole life nor heard anything as retarded from any of the dog-owners I know.
Obviously the dog should know that its whole house is its home, and if you want to give it a spot for itself, for the love of god don’t give it a fucking jail cell.
Is this an American thing or something?
Was the hateful slur against disable people really necessary to make your point?
Indeed. That choice increased my incredibly short block list by one.
Crate training. Look it up.
I did, nothing like that in my country, no idea where this comes from
Why does the dog get its own private space?
ftfy
Most dogs love their crates. Everyone needs a little personal space sometimes.
