In this video I go over why we crate train our dogs and the importance of getting them use to a crate. Crate training is really helpful especially when bringing a new dog home. This can really help puppies in potty training, get them use to your routine, and providing them a safe place in your home while they adjust to their new environment. I also show some tips of how we got our dogs more comfortable with the crate with the help of some of my furbabies.
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Hi! We are going to pick up our blue heeler puppy in a bit more than a week. Was wondering what size of crate should I get… the 36 inches or 42? The one I was looking to get was a 42 inches coming with a divider. Would it be too big?
Thank you! 🙂
where do i send puppy pictures to? 😀
Hi great videos! I'm going through the adoption process for a 2 year old Blue Heeler. Fingers crossed that I'm accepted and get her this week! I previously had a Lab and have a very large crate -and am familiar with crate training. My Lab would run into the crate just to get her treats LOL and she slept in her crate each night her whole life even though we sleep upstairs. And that's part of my question – where do your dogs sleep now if you don't use crates for them? I'm happy to set up my old crate for my new dog to give her a safe place and to help with training and if she wants to sleep in there great – but if she wants to sleep upstairs that crate is too big for the room! So do your dogs sleep in your bedroom on doggie beds? I'm thinking I might set that up.
Completely underrated channel and dog breed
I couldn't imagine not crate training. What a mess and headache all the time that must be. My spaniel was resistant to his crate as a puppy but now that he is old and grumpy loves it. It is his safe place away from the ACD puppy.
My ACD's crate is called her "box". "Get in your box" will have a dog trotting towards the bedroom, and into her crate, usually when we "go night-night". Then, you get the "look how good I am" sit in her crate while waiting for her "night-night" treat. The "night-night" is the be quiet and go to sleep command to deal with the whining and I heard a bump in the night everybody panic when she was little.
Thank you for the video! I just got my first Heeler the other day.
would you be able to send the link to the forum or group you are apart of? I just got my puppy blue heeler his name is sylas and hes 9 weeks old and your tips have been nothing but helpful thank you!!!
Thanks for sharing!
My heeler is just turned 1 and he's still afraid of the stairs. Any suggestions?
You said something about one of your dogs having seizures I have a 10-month-old that has had seizures since he was five months old and they are bad and you can’t take him on walks sometimes they try them on all these medicines they’ll work for a couple weeks but then he starts having episodes again is there any kind of medication or idea of what we could do to help him in his seizures
Such great tips! Wonder if theres anyways to get them to respond to their name?
Hello thank you for your advice we just got our first red heeler pup he's about 15 weeks now
Thank you so much for your channel! We just rescued a heeler mix from a shelter (about 1 yr old). First time we’ve had one and he is so smart, wanting to obey and loving. We needed a companion for a rescue that is traumatized to the extreme. This heeler mix has made the traumatized one into a whole new dog in less than a week!!! We’re in love ! But, because of his intelligence, WE are having to get trained😉 I made the mistake of letting him out of his crate when he cried the first night 😔, but will try it again from the beginning. Do you have any tips for undoing that bad crate introduction?
Hey its me again. My pup is 8 weeks and I have to cover it . He screams acts like I'm murdering him.
Lol, we have a blue heeler. We got her when she was 6 weeks. I have a playpen with a soft dog bed in it that we have trained our Sadie. We do use it for her to claim down when she has overdone it with her night time zoomies. Our heeler is very much like a toddler right now, she is so smart, I think she is training us 😂
I have always “crate” trained my dogs. I call them kennels. I don’t like calling them crates or cages, cages especially really upsets me. It’s always been a very negative term to me. It’s a safe, positive and personal space for my pups. 2 of our dogs if I give them a blanket or towel or anything they pee every night on it so I can’t put anything in with our boys. Our little girl doesn’t do that with her bed in there. I’m hoping my new pup does good with padding in there. I hate not being able to give 2 of them padding. Our kennels stay out and open all day and they sleep in them closed every night.they know when it’s bedtime and go lay down by themselves and get loves before their doors are closed for the night.
Thanks for the tips!!! P.S. I have the same kitty blanket! 🤣
I just got my blue heeler, how long do you leave them in the crate if they are whining or screaming? Can they eat food in the crate? It’s been two days since I’ve brought mine home and we’ve done exercises with the crate. When should I implement her going in for sleeping?
Thank you. Blue Heelers are most beatiful and smartest dogs.
I love your videos, just one word of constructive advice.. You ramble about things not related to what you're teaching. Stick to the subject and give best tips and training.. Keep up the great videos..I just adopted my first blue Heeler
We found a "end-table" crate and it's AWESOME! It looks nice, and it serves the same purpose. We crate ours until they get a little chill and don't rip the curtains off the rods at night. LOL
Our boy only needed it around 6 Mos because he was smart enough to click to the fact that his destructive behavior is what kept him from sleeping on the big cushy couch at night. LOL
#HEELERS 😂
I really like these videos! I recently just rescued a heeler (about almost 2 months now ) and he has been going to the bathroom specifically poop in the middle of the night in his crate, he’s about one years old and he’s very stubborn. Curious what you had to try to correct this behavior? Or he’s become my best friend, so I can’t be mad, but I would like to get my sleep back as well as have him know that that’s not OK.
Our 5mo chewed two bottom bars out of her metal create and escaped 😮 !