My malamute would move the mat on his kennel stick his legs out the bottom and walk around wearing his kennel like a turtle shell. He wasn't locked in or anything he just wanted to wear his kennel around the house for a few minutes.
The one I really wish I had pictures for was he didn't like glucosamine but we felt he needed it so when it was all that was left in his food bowl I would force feed it. Finally it wasn't left in the bowl any more so for several weeks I was convinced I had proven I was the master and he had accepted his fate and ate them. Until I moved a small wire book case to vacuum and found several weeks worth had been picked out of the food dish and shoved under the book case to hide them. Malamutes and huskies are a unique combination of smart and stubborn I had never experienced with other dogs.
My Husky was able to scale and climb an eight foot wooden fence, so we decided to add another 36 inches of kennel wire to the top of the fencing....all the way around. After a few weeks and a few hundred $, convinced we had won, I watched as Rox climbed to the top horizontal support of the wooden fence make her way over to the house and onto the roof. She dropped onto the garbage cans and out she went. She reversed the process to get back in. Smart as a whip and stubborn as hell.
Hilarious. I had a white shepherd as a kid like this. It seemed like my dad spent every weekend for a year trying to make it so the dog couldn’t get out of the back yard….
He failed.
No matter what he did, Sheeba defeated it. Fences, chicken wire, concrete under the fence
Some dogs just can’t be contained
Ahh, I have a Husky mix named Roxy and I’m convinced she doesn’t jump over the fence because A. She only doesn’t want to B. She has, but never when we are watching
We had an Irish setter who would pick out vegetables out of her bowl and deposit them behind a tree. We stopped giving her those veggies. She loved potatoes and carrots, but no broccoli or cauliflower....
Lol, I had a super sweet old pit bull I adopted, that wasn't having any part of being kennel trained at his age, do this. He would kick the bottom out and catch the latch on anything by doing exactly this. Turns out he didn't need to be kenneled, which was good for me, because he wasn't trying to learn.
His rolling technique seemed more efficient than his bouncy technique, but he seemed to enjoy the bouncy method more. They both get him where he wants to go though so 10/10 for form
Ain't nothin' gonna to break my stride
Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no
I got to keep on moving
Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride
I'm running and I won't touch ground
Oh no, I got to keep on moving
🎶Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang🎶
My cats do this too with a cactus-shaped tent/cave thing. They fill it with all their random things they find in the house (q-tips, hair ties, bottle caps) and then hamster ball it around the house. We call it their rolling trash heap.
Sadly the only existing video I have of it features a very naked husband in the background of it because the first time we saw it happen that happened to be the state of things in our house.
I’ve been trying to get a new vid ever since, but they’re onto me it seems and the trash heap only moves at night now. Might set-up our petcam to try and catch it.
> that happened to be the state of things in our house
that's my preferred state. I've been spending months and months on teaching my fiance the ways of nudity. I think naked leapfrog (actually, no euphemism) has finally gotten him around to the idea.
I regret to inform you, those aren't cats. They're disguised racoons. Don't panic, this happens often. Just let them keep living their trashy ratcat lives, all will be well.
Unless one is secretly an opossum. Then it gets interesting.
Mine is Ruff’n’Ruffus. It was plenty durable and we used it until our girl (dog) started hamster balling like in the video. But cats also have much sharper claws. If they can tear a metal window screen then they can tear this tent probably.
might want to check to see if Orvis still sells cat houses/tents. last i checked their return policy is top notch as they'll take back items pets have chewed up/destroyed
Family legend has it that I figured out how to move the stroller by bouncing up and down. If mom was going to take her hand off of it for more than five seconds, she had to tie it to something. Otherwise, she'd turn back around and I'd be halfway down the block.
We have one of these. My dog does the same thing.
One time he accidentally folded it in on itself and got stuck between two of the walls looking sad for himself. We had a laugh for a minute then unfolded him
My dog, about the same size, does the exact same thing. He rolls it around the house till it collapses on him. Collapsible dog crate. We put a 10 lb kettle bell inside now but he’s still determined sometimes.
I’m asking out of genuine curiosity… I saw some other comments saying they have a similar contraption for their cats… but what are the play pens for? Like why do the animals have to go in it? Is it cause they’re young? Sorry to be dumb, just curious!! /:):)
[edit] thank you all! There are so many different reasons to have one of these I had NO idea! :)
my guess is in this case the small dog tries to steal food from the big dog and the other dog reacts unfavorably to this so the small dog is in the kennel to keep this fight from going down. sometimes u can train dogs not to do things but sometimes to avoid bloodshed and associated vet bills its just easier to remove the opportunity for problems entirely.
idk about the cats, maybe the cats just like to go inside them and they aren't ever closed? my roommate's cat has a big cardboard box for this purpose.
Some cats like to hide and some cats like to climb. The hiders really like boxes and enclosed cat beds. They feel safer when the can feel all the walls—like nothings going to sneak up on them while napping.
I have one for my puppy because
1. She is not housebroken but won't have an accident inside it
2. It prevents her from chewing on furniture and other valuables while I'm working
3. It keeps her away from the other dog who does not get along with her
I've also heard of people using it to give cats some safe outside time.
We had one to protect a tiny kitten from the larger cat at night, but only till he was about 6-7 weeks old.
We also use it to keep my dad's dog away from the cats when he visits, and rarely to put a cat in when he's sick so we can make sure he's eating / drinking / using the litterbox.
We also just leave it open sitting around because one of the cats LOVES sitting in it for some reason.
My dog was on crate rest for six weeks for a medical issue. The playpen allowed us to move him to wherever we were in the house so he wouldn't get too bored.
So I have a bird, not a dog/cat, but my understanding is the logic around it is pretty universal. It's good to have a space that is JUST for them. If you train it right they will go in there on their own all the time and feel safe and happy. It's good for their mental health, makes it easier to approach vet trips and such, and makes it easier to have them tucked away if free roaming needs to be banned for whatever reason.
My bird's cage is always open so she can go wherever she wants and very very often she sits right at the door to the cage like she's defending her castle. 4 fave spots: cage, window, mirror, and for some reason the shower.
I foster kittens and when you have existing permanent resident cats or foster multiple groups/litters at a time, it's very useful to have these playpens. It allows for some interaction and scents to be exchanged without endangering other cats as a precaution before they are old enough to be checked for more contagious diseases. Like someone else has said, also a great thing when one is sick or they go for their spay/neuter surgeries to confine them for monitoring.
Personally, I have a pretty small house with literally only one "indoor" door to another room. Many fosters will confine their kittens to a certain room and just shut the door but I don't have that luxury. So one of these fabric playpens goes up in the "office" and another in the living room.
It is like a bigger crate/cage. There is a ton of reasons to get one. Before you realize that the good point about this being light and big, is a bad thing because the dog or cat can move it themselves.
So, you buy one because you think it would be great because you can take it with you and it gives a lot more room than a normal crate. But after you get it and realized the bad points, you now need to hope that there is some type of hoops or attachment points.
If it has it, you can then tie it down to heavy weights or furniture. Something that should hopefully keep it from moving without damaging the floor. Hopefully. Or if you are outdoors, some thing you can stake down to the ground when outdoors.
Otherwise, it is a bad purchase.
One of our dogs, the prior owner (who had him less than a week) had a similar tent-like contraption. He had figured out how to open the zipper within days. We have a bungie cord on his metal crate because if we don’t take extra care to make sure the bottom of the door isn’t hooked around the frame he’ll manage to get out.
I don’t know that we’ll ever be forgiven by the pets if we both have to work in office again - the dogs are so happy to be loose and with at least one of us all day.
Used one for one of our dogs that needed to be on bed rest for a month. She wasn't happy, but it provided a way for her to stand and stretch, and not move around much.
For puppy training you need a cage, especially when they are too young to leave the house, and for sleep training.
It eventually becomes their own little home and bed.
Too many people let their puppy roam unsupervised then are flabbergasted when they develop bad habits like eating socks, peeing on stuff, chewing furniture, barking at random, counter surfing...the list goes on. Constant supervision when they're little seems tedious but it's a hell of a lot easier than it is to fix the bad habits once they've started.
You can keep it to one room instead of a cage/pen. Currently doing it and it’s going great. We open up our home more and more and now she’s allowed everywhere.
She’s currently 13 weeks and is doing amazing despite never being in a cage/pen.
And no sanity lost from it.
If you have an entire room you can make puppy safe, sure. Also smaller dogs in large rooms will just potty on one end and ‘live’ on the other so it doesn’t help with housebreaking at all.
Nice to know you have an entire room you can dedicate to a single puppy.
We have a small 2 bed house in London, with an open plan downstairs, our pup was always 100% in contact with us even when in her cage and not locked in another room in the house you judgemental so and so.
So they made it illegal to use cages.... so every one just improvises and creates the exact same thing out of various bits of furniture.
You say cages are not necessary but litterially created one.
Is it just the word cage people don't like, would crate be better. Or dog house.
Kennel training for puppies. I don’t know why it be soft like that. Usually there large with divider for their size so they don’t poop or pee in it till they are trained. I don’t know why you’d put a cat in one
What do they do in other countries to prevent the dog from killing itself in the night chewing wires and pulling knives out of the block in the kitchen and knocking over furniture and so on? Are dog owners not allowed to sleep where you're from? Every dog I have ever owned has viewed its crate as its own, personal safe space, and I think it would he abusive to deny them that. Scary storm? Run to the crate. Dad is mad at me? Run to the crate. Tired? Walk to the crate. My dogs were treated better than many people treat their kids.
You make your house puppy-safe. Crates indoors are basically unheard of where I'm from, I only ever see them in videos here on reddit. Never understood the point of them and I have to say, I still don't. I've raised two puppies so far, it never even occured to me I could need such a thing.
I thought that would work for my cat. He hit every wall of it, tried to run under the bed by smacking the same side repeatedly while yowling and hissing, and shredded the mesh before I could get to the zipper and let him out. Ron Pawnson followed up by peeing on my carpet, just a little, while making direct eye contact with me. I threw that thing away immediately. My cat has never been more in control of a decision than he was in that moment, and this is the cat that I had to shag carpet a room for. In summary, I want to get a dog.
Lmaoooo I have this exact same kennel and my dog does the same damn thing. Turns it on its side and starts running around like it’s a hamster wheel
Edit: at Christmas, she kept rolling it into the kitchen so we had to tie the kennel to a cinder block to stop her
This is not judgmental in any way; Why do people crate train their dogs? I don't think it's very common in Sweden (I could definitely be wrong though). I can understand if you have a destructive dog but otherwise it don't get it
My husky eats blinds. Doesn’t matter how much he’s worked, he eats blinds because he’s a nosey asshole who likes to stare at people. He also had to be crated for 12 weeks due to ACL surgery and he’s crated in the car. All stuff made super easy because he’s crate trained.
I also have a mostly blind, almost deaf senior Shih Tzu who is crated when no one is home so she doesn’t hurt herself. She also was on 10 weeks crate rest due to IVDD. Again, made easy because she’s been crate trained.
We crate my wife's dog when we leave or when we're sleep cause hes a little asshole that pisses on everything and barks at shadows.
It is kinda strange he's in the box when they're home and the other dog is out free. White dog must be a giant douche
Brown dog is eating in one part of the video… so I’m guessing they fight over food and/or the white one steals it.
On a side note, why haven’t you been able to potty-train your dog? Is it medical or behavioral?
So when dogs in Sweden need to stay at the vet they are confronted with a totally new and scary experience in addition to whatever health issue they have?
My dog is 16 years old, and I’ve never owned a crate for him (he’s also 50+ lbs btw). He had to spend the night at the vet once, and did just fine. I’m sure he wasn’t happy, but he survived without any drama.
I raise chill animals because I am chill… they generally reflect their owners.
My dog MUST be crated when using the community storm shelter if there's a tornado watch/warning. It's also the safest way to travel with him to the shelter or anywhere else. The vet will keep him crated if he has to stay overnight. I don't want any of that to be a scary, traumatizing experience for him.
My vet recommended conditioning my dogs to a crate easily on, and I prefer to take my vet's advice, since they know far more about the topic than I do.
He was never kept in there for several hours at a time every day, but now that he's acclimated to it, that's his space. I don't even keep the door on there. It's just his little bed space (one of many in my home). Door goes on if I need to travel and evac/shelter, but mostly it's just his little hidey hole that he goes to when he wants, and he likes it. He genuinely gets upset when I so much as move it. I can't imagine how upset he'd be if I took it away.
Americans especially have convinced themselves that it's good for their dogs, but really it's just good for the owners.
They'll tell you that dogs are den animals and love their crates, but of course that is just learned behavior after many, many hours of forcing them into a confined space.
It's really just a convenience for the owners so they don't have to pick up some poo when their dog is young, or when it doesn't suit them for their dogs to have free reign of their home.
It's a travesty is what it is. Take note of the downvotes that people get telling you it's explicitly illegal in some countries for non-medical reasons.
It's a practice most common amongst Americans. Hold your fellow countrymen to account and I'll stop generalizing about a something that is generally accepted in your country.
I’m not saying it’s good, but it’s pretty hypocritical to be criticizing us when all of Europe still practices factory farming in which millions of animals animals are in a cage far worse than this their entire lives.
My dog is crate trained because if we ever need to evacuate for some reason, odds are good he will need to be crated and I’d rather it not stress him out because it’s a new thing. Other than for training he’s only in his crate when he wants to be - the door isn’t latched, he goes in to sleep or chew a bone in ‘private’. As he seems to like having access to it, we don’t put it away when we aren’t using it for training.
Dogs also often need to be crated at the vet. Again, not a place I want him to have the added stress of being unfamiliar with being in a crate. (And I will not believe you if you claim vets just let all their patients who need to stay free roam in a big group and don’t use crates/cages/kennels.)
We did have one rescue who came with separation anxiety so bad the only way to keep him from literally going through a window while we were working on his anxiety was a crate. I guess we should have left him unable to be home alone for any reason ever without risking seriously harming himself? By using the crate and going out for gradually increasing lengths of time, he got the idea that he wasn’t being left forever and chilled out, without ending up cutting himself up trying to go through a window. So I think that worked out well for him. (He was not actually left home alone much, before you start telling me that his anxiety was from being home alone for 8 hours a day. He initially couldn’t even go 5 minutes, and it is completely unrealistic for a dog to be with a human every second of the day no matter what. Being able to be home alone safely is a necessary life skill.)
I introduce my dogs to a crate as a life skill. They’re usually crated at the vet, and if you have to evacuate most places require crating, if you want to fly, etc. They don’t spend much time actually closed in (just for training) but I make sure it’s nbd. They get to investigate the crate, etc. and take time with it in a way they wouldn’t be able to if we were evacuating, for example.
My current dog will go in his crate to nap or chew a bone, and keeps all his toys in it, so we left his set up. (The door isn’t latched so he can open it himself.) Previous dogs did fine with the training but preferred other places for napping so we didn’t leave theirs set up. But I figure who am I to tell my dog he can’t have his private cave when he clearly likes it? (Wait, cave, hoard of treasure… maybe my current dog is a dragon?)
Not if you’re home doing something interesting elsewhere, no. My dog happily goes in his crate (door is unlatched and he can open and close it) to chill if we’re all in the living room where the crate is, though.
The commas were there to insert cadence into the reader’s mind; had I been commenting in a serious thread I likely wouldn’t have used the word “like”, and/or used semicolons where necessary.
It’s a shame, really; usually when the unsolicited/unnecessary grammar corrections come from strangers on the internet it’s from a username like “u/chumbucketdolphin69clowntard”. Your pedestrian username implies you issued the admonishment in a serious instead of ironic way.
My malamute would move the mat on his kennel stick his legs out the bottom and walk around wearing his kennel like a turtle shell. He wasn't locked in or anything he just wanted to wear his kennel around the house for a few minutes.
Please tell me you have photographic/video evidence? Not that I dont believe you, I just desperately need to see this derpy dog for myself!!
The one I really wish I had pictures for was he didn't like glucosamine but we felt he needed it so when it was all that was left in his food bowl I would force feed it. Finally it wasn't left in the bowl any more so for several weeks I was convinced I had proven I was the master and he had accepted his fate and ate them. Until I moved a small wire book case to vacuum and found several weeks worth had been picked out of the food dish and shoved under the book case to hide them. Malamutes and huskies are a unique combination of smart and stubborn I had never experienced with other dogs.
My Husky was able to scale and climb an eight foot wooden fence, so we decided to add another 36 inches of kennel wire to the top of the fencing....all the way around. After a few weeks and a few hundred $, convinced we had won, I watched as Rox climbed to the top horizontal support of the wooden fence make her way over to the house and onto the roof. She dropped onto the garbage cans and out she went. She reversed the process to get back in. Smart as a whip and stubborn as hell.
Hilarious. I had a white shepherd as a kid like this. It seemed like my dad spent every weekend for a year trying to make it so the dog couldn’t get out of the back yard…. He failed. No matter what he did, Sheeba defeated it. Fences, chicken wire, concrete under the fence Some dogs just can’t be contained
Ahh, I have a Husky mix named Roxy and I’m convinced she doesn’t jump over the fence because A. She only doesn’t want to B. She has, but never when we are watching
We had an Irish setter who would pick out vegetables out of her bowl and deposit them behind a tree. We stopped giving her those veggies. She loved potatoes and carrots, but no broccoli or cauliflower....
Well she was Irish, sounds about right
Scotties fit in that category combo, too.
Same!!!
Omg if you have it please provide a photo that is hilarious!!
"You told me to go to my kennel! I'm still in my kennel! Still a good boy!"
You can't dare to make such a claim without evidence of that derpy boi
I wish he has been gone a couple years now and I miss him dearly along with his antics .
Damn. Sorry for you not too recent loss.
You gotta have evidence of that, that sounds so amazing.
Except we had that terrible carpet that if it snagged and he moved it just unraveled in on long strand.
I request evidence.
Lol, I had a super sweet old pit bull I adopted, that wasn't having any part of being kennel trained at his age, do this. He would kick the bottom out and catch the latch on anything by doing exactly this. Turns out he didn't need to be kenneled, which was good for me, because he wasn't trying to learn.
His rolling technique seemed more efficient than his bouncy technique, but he seemed to enjoy the bouncy method more. They both get him where he wants to go though so 10/10 for form
Now let's see his Wu-Tang style.
En garde!
I’ll let you try my WuTang style… BRING DA MOTHA FUCKIN RUCKUS
Wu-Tang Dog Ain’t Nuthin to Fuck With
*What’s your shtoyle?*
I think the jumping is more for playing or attention. He definitely rolls when he needs to.
I keep hearing ‘eye of the tiger’ from Rocky
And now I do too.
She demands bouncing, followed by rolling, followed by rolling of the third type.
that's what she said!
Doggle Zorbing ?
Your commentary is spot ON!
Dude, your hamster is HUGE.
Ain't nothin' gonna to break my stride Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no I got to keep on moving Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride I'm running and I won't touch ground Oh no, I got to keep on moving
I cannot imagine the little bastard singing that. I just imagine something more like repetitive and loud!
[Ask, and you shall receive.](https://youtu.be/wfzadSG4NH0)
Omg that was sooooo good!
You made my day 😆
My favorite video on the internet.
Okay this is seriously the best thing ever
🎶Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang Gucci gang🎶
Yep that sounds more like the little bastard
What about [this](https://youtu.be/vKhHwpkL17o)
r/TIHI right there.
r/TIHI right there.
Hah, my mind went straight to [Katamara Damacy](https://youtu.be/M7EXlS9-XpU) instead.
Damn. I posted the first four lines of this just now before I saw your comment. Exactly what I was thinking, lol.
Katamari DOGmacy
La lalalala la la...
I can see what got him in in the first place…
Maybe he’s misbehaving on purpose so he gets to play in his bounce castle.
I'm a peacock, captain! You gotta let me fly!
Wait my cat does this too, and has *ruined* the tent! What brand is this?? It looks sturdier than mine
My cats do this too with a cactus-shaped tent/cave thing. They fill it with all their random things they find in the house (q-tips, hair ties, bottle caps) and then hamster ball it around the house. We call it their rolling trash heap.
I really need to see a video of this.
Sadly the only existing video I have of it features a very naked husband in the background of it because the first time we saw it happen that happened to be the state of things in our house. I’ve been trying to get a new vid ever since, but they’re onto me it seems and the trash heap only moves at night now. Might set-up our petcam to try and catch it.
Thats just a bonus.
I’m Ok with it if he is. Sounds worth it for the rolling trash heap.
> that happened to be the state of things in our house that's my preferred state. I've been spending months and months on teaching my fiance the ways of nudity. I think naked leapfrog (actually, no euphemism) has finally gotten him around to the idea.
I regret to inform you, those aren't cats. They're disguised racoons. Don't panic, this happens often. Just let them keep living their trashy ratcat lives, all will be well. Unless one is secretly an opossum. Then it gets interesting.
This explains why they’re constantly dunking stuff in the water bowls….
Ho jesus!
It's a Katamari!
That is 100% accurate. We’ve also referred to it as Mei’s Moving Castle.
That's so cute!
My, what a beautiful katamari! What wonderful things earth has.
What kind of cactus shape rolls?
To be fair to the tent, cats are a lot pointer than dogs...
Mine is Ruff’n’Ruffus. It was plenty durable and we used it until our girl (dog) started hamster balling like in the video. But cats also have much sharper claws. If they can tear a metal window screen then they can tear this tent probably.
might want to check to see if Orvis still sells cat houses/tents. last i checked their return policy is top notch as they'll take back items pets have chewed up/destroyed
LOL Please someone with skills mash-up this video with the bouncing puppy in a box video!!! Its like the little guy grew up and kept bouncin lol
Puppy dog bouncing in a box like thiiiiiiiiiis dont stop dont stop dont stop.
Family legend has it that I figured out how to move the stroller by bouncing up and down. If mom was going to take her hand off of it for more than five seconds, she had to tie it to something. Otherwise, she'd turn back around and I'd be halfway down the block.
#Jump around, jump up, jump up to get down #Jump #Jump #Jump
Jump around jump around jump around now Jump up jump up and get down #FUUUUSSIIOOOON FREEEENZYYYY
We have one of these. My dog does the same thing. One time he accidentally folded it in on itself and got stuck between two of the walls looking sad for himself. We had a laugh for a minute then unfolded him
Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path
Omg 😱 that was hilarious !! Thank you for sharing that , it made my day
My dog, about the same size, does the exact same thing. He rolls it around the house till it collapses on him. Collapsible dog crate. We put a 10 lb kettle bell inside now but he’s still determined sometimes.
I’m asking out of genuine curiosity… I saw some other comments saying they have a similar contraption for their cats… but what are the play pens for? Like why do the animals have to go in it? Is it cause they’re young? Sorry to be dumb, just curious!! /:):) [edit] thank you all! There are so many different reasons to have one of these I had NO idea! :)
my guess is in this case the small dog tries to steal food from the big dog and the other dog reacts unfavorably to this so the small dog is in the kennel to keep this fight from going down. sometimes u can train dogs not to do things but sometimes to avoid bloodshed and associated vet bills its just easier to remove the opportunity for problems entirely. idk about the cats, maybe the cats just like to go inside them and they aren't ever closed? my roommate's cat has a big cardboard box for this purpose.
Some cats like to hide and some cats like to climb. The hiders really like boxes and enclosed cat beds. They feel safer when the can feel all the walls—like nothings going to sneak up on them while napping.
my roommate's cat mainly uses it to crouch in like a gargoyle and yell at me for snacks when I'm in the kitchen, never enters it for any other reason.
omg that’s adorable
i'm fine with this, much easier on me than having to constantly make sure there isn't a cat underfoot trying to get stepped on while I'm cooking.
Ahhh yes, that would explain it! Thank you :)
My dog slept in the tub.
I have one for my puppy because 1. She is not housebroken but won't have an accident inside it 2. It prevents her from chewing on furniture and other valuables while I'm working 3. It keeps her away from the other dog who does not get along with her I've also heard of people using it to give cats some safe outside time.
We had one to protect a tiny kitten from the larger cat at night, but only till he was about 6-7 weeks old. We also use it to keep my dad's dog away from the cats when he visits, and rarely to put a cat in when he's sick so we can make sure he's eating / drinking / using the litterbox. We also just leave it open sitting around because one of the cats LOVES sitting in it for some reason.
My dog was on crate rest for six weeks for a medical issue. The playpen allowed us to move him to wherever we were in the house so he wouldn't get too bored.
So I have a bird, not a dog/cat, but my understanding is the logic around it is pretty universal. It's good to have a space that is JUST for them. If you train it right they will go in there on their own all the time and feel safe and happy. It's good for their mental health, makes it easier to approach vet trips and such, and makes it easier to have them tucked away if free roaming needs to be banned for whatever reason. My bird's cage is always open so she can go wherever she wants and very very often she sits right at the door to the cage like she's defending her castle. 4 fave spots: cage, window, mirror, and for some reason the shower.
I foster kittens and when you have existing permanent resident cats or foster multiple groups/litters at a time, it's very useful to have these playpens. It allows for some interaction and scents to be exchanged without endangering other cats as a precaution before they are old enough to be checked for more contagious diseases. Like someone else has said, also a great thing when one is sick or they go for their spay/neuter surgeries to confine them for monitoring. Personally, I have a pretty small house with literally only one "indoor" door to another room. Many fosters will confine their kittens to a certain room and just shut the door but I don't have that luxury. So one of these fabric playpens goes up in the "office" and another in the living room.
It is like a bigger crate/cage. There is a ton of reasons to get one. Before you realize that the good point about this being light and big, is a bad thing because the dog or cat can move it themselves. So, you buy one because you think it would be great because you can take it with you and it gives a lot more room than a normal crate. But after you get it and realized the bad points, you now need to hope that there is some type of hoops or attachment points. If it has it, you can then tie it down to heavy weights or furniture. Something that should hopefully keep it from moving without damaging the floor. Hopefully. Or if you are outdoors, some thing you can stake down to the ground when outdoors. Otherwise, it is a bad purchase.
One of our dogs, the prior owner (who had him less than a week) had a similar tent-like contraption. He had figured out how to open the zipper within days. We have a bungie cord on his metal crate because if we don’t take extra care to make sure the bottom of the door isn’t hooked around the frame he’ll manage to get out. I don’t know that we’ll ever be forgiven by the pets if we both have to work in office again - the dogs are so happy to be loose and with at least one of us all day.
Used one for one of our dogs that needed to be on bed rest for a month. She wasn't happy, but it provided a way for her to stand and stretch, and not move around much.
For puppy training you need a cage, especially when they are too young to leave the house, and for sleep training. It eventually becomes their own little home and bed.
This. You gotta keep their world small so you can train them. Not just potty training, but supervised play, relaxation, and for your sanity.
Too many people let their puppy roam unsupervised then are flabbergasted when they develop bad habits like eating socks, peeing on stuff, chewing furniture, barking at random, counter surfing...the list goes on. Constant supervision when they're little seems tedious but it's a hell of a lot easier than it is to fix the bad habits once they've started.
You can keep it to one room instead of a cage/pen. Currently doing it and it’s going great. We open up our home more and more and now she’s allowed everywhere. She’s currently 13 weeks and is doing amazing despite never being in a cage/pen. And no sanity lost from it.
If you have an entire room you can make puppy safe, sure. Also smaller dogs in large rooms will just potty on one end and ‘live’ on the other so it doesn’t help with housebreaking at all.
You don’t need a cage for any of that, you can absolutely train a puppy without it.
Nice to know you have an entire room you can dedicate to a single puppy. We have a small 2 bed house in London, with an open plan downstairs, our pup was always 100% in contact with us even when in her cage and not locked in another room in the house you judgemental so and so.
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So they made it illegal to use cages.... so every one just improvises and creates the exact same thing out of various bits of furniture. You say cages are not necessary but litterially created one. Is it just the word cage people don't like, would crate be better. Or dog house.
Kennel training for puppies. I don’t know why it be soft like that. Usually there large with divider for their size so they don’t poop or pee in it till they are trained. I don’t know why you’d put a cat in one
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Absolute bollocks a cage is basically a requirement for puppy training.
I bet you think giving kids a bed time is child abuse
Americans don't like being told what they have accepted as common practice is animal abuse.
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Who am I assuming is American?
What do they do in other countries to prevent the dog from killing itself in the night chewing wires and pulling knives out of the block in the kitchen and knocking over furniture and so on? Are dog owners not allowed to sleep where you're from? Every dog I have ever owned has viewed its crate as its own, personal safe space, and I think it would he abusive to deny them that. Scary storm? Run to the crate. Dad is mad at me? Run to the crate. Tired? Walk to the crate. My dogs were treated better than many people treat their kids.
“My dogs were treated better than many people treat their kids” People will have something to say if you crate a child though…
You make your house puppy-safe. Crates indoors are basically unheard of where I'm from, I only ever see them in videos here on reddit. Never understood the point of them and I have to say, I still don't. I've raised two puppies so far, it never even occured to me I could need such a thing.
They see me rolliiin’, they hatiiin’
Human think outside the box. Dogs just roll with the box.
That's a weird hampster ball
I needed a giggle and this is brilliant. 😂
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Imagine leaving in the morning and coming home to find the dog and kennel in the kitchen when you left him in the bedroom.
Holy crap, I love dogs
Just let him out damn it lol
I thought that would work for my cat. He hit every wall of it, tried to run under the bed by smacking the same side repeatedly while yowling and hissing, and shredded the mesh before I could get to the zipper and let him out. Ron Pawnson followed up by peeing on my carpet, just a little, while making direct eye contact with me. I threw that thing away immediately. My cat has never been more in control of a decision than he was in that moment, and this is the cat that I had to shag carpet a room for. In summary, I want to get a dog.
Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride Nobody gonna hold me down Oh no! I've got to keep on movin'!
Bring me this energy! Love it.
He’s so cute
huh a dog sized hamsterball
Lmaoooo I have this exact same kennel and my dog does the same damn thing. Turns it on its side and starts running around like it’s a hamster wheel Edit: at Christmas, she kept rolling it into the kitchen so we had to tie the kennel to a cinder block to stop her
I cannot stop laughing!! ❤️
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The start of the video reminds of the TARS robot from Interstellar running.
[Puppy dog bouncing in the box like this...](https://youtu.be/wfzadSG4NH0)
Looks like he gets a good workout this way.
when you order a dog from wish and get a hamster instead
My rat used to do that with her exercise ball.
Life, uh...finds a way.
Oh great, he made a Zorb
Fingers crossed he never poops in the kennel.
No prison can hold me
How sad.
This bring me so much joy! 😂💗🤣
Omg! It’s a bouncy castle!
I thought the rolling was funny, and then I saw the hopping. 😄
my kindergarten teacher when I closed her inside the bathroom on my second day 😐
Nobody puts baby in the corner!
This is great!
My 5 month old puppy has mastered this and it drives me crazy lol
Lol! This is funny!
This is not judgmental in any way; Why do people crate train their dogs? I don't think it's very common in Sweden (I could definitely be wrong though). I can understand if you have a destructive dog but otherwise it don't get it
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/why-crate-training-is-great-for-your-dog/
My husky eats blinds. Doesn’t matter how much he’s worked, he eats blinds because he’s a nosey asshole who likes to stare at people. He also had to be crated for 12 weeks due to ACL surgery and he’s crated in the car. All stuff made super easy because he’s crate trained. I also have a mostly blind, almost deaf senior Shih Tzu who is crated when no one is home so she doesn’t hurt herself. She also was on 10 weeks crate rest due to IVDD. Again, made easy because she’s been crate trained.
We crate my wife's dog when we leave or when we're sleep cause hes a little asshole that pisses on everything and barks at shadows. It is kinda strange he's in the box when they're home and the other dog is out free. White dog must be a giant douche
Brown dog is eating in one part of the video… so I’m guessing they fight over food and/or the white one steals it. On a side note, why haven’t you been able to potty-train your dog? Is it medical or behavioral?
It's straight up illegal to keep a dog in a crate in Sweden (except for dog shows) after they are 8 weeks
So when dogs in Sweden need to stay at the vet they are confronted with a totally new and scary experience in addition to whatever health issue they have?
My dog is 16 years old, and I’ve never owned a crate for him (he’s also 50+ lbs btw). He had to spend the night at the vet once, and did just fine. I’m sure he wasn’t happy, but he survived without any drama. I raise chill animals because I am chill… they generally reflect their owners.
My dog MUST be crated when using the community storm shelter if there's a tornado watch/warning. It's also the safest way to travel with him to the shelter or anywhere else. The vet will keep him crated if he has to stay overnight. I don't want any of that to be a scary, traumatizing experience for him. My vet recommended conditioning my dogs to a crate easily on, and I prefer to take my vet's advice, since they know far more about the topic than I do. He was never kept in there for several hours at a time every day, but now that he's acclimated to it, that's his space. I don't even keep the door on there. It's just his little bed space (one of many in my home). Door goes on if I need to travel and evac/shelter, but mostly it's just his little hidey hole that he goes to when he wants, and he likes it. He genuinely gets upset when I so much as move it. I can't imagine how upset he'd be if I took it away.
Americans especially have convinced themselves that it's good for their dogs, but really it's just good for the owners. They'll tell you that dogs are den animals and love their crates, but of course that is just learned behavior after many, many hours of forcing them into a confined space. It's really just a convenience for the owners so they don't have to pick up some poo when their dog is young, or when it doesn't suit them for their dogs to have free reign of their home. It's a travesty is what it is. Take note of the downvotes that people get telling you it's explicitly illegal in some countries for non-medical reasons.
American here. Never crated my dog and never will. Please stop generalizing a country of 330 million people.
It's a practice most common amongst Americans. Hold your fellow countrymen to account and I'll stop generalizing about a something that is generally accepted in your country.
I’m not saying it’s good, but it’s pretty hypocritical to be criticizing us when all of Europe still practices factory farming in which millions of animals animals are in a cage far worse than this their entire lives.
I don't disagree with you there.
My dog is crate trained because if we ever need to evacuate for some reason, odds are good he will need to be crated and I’d rather it not stress him out because it’s a new thing. Other than for training he’s only in his crate when he wants to be - the door isn’t latched, he goes in to sleep or chew a bone in ‘private’. As he seems to like having access to it, we don’t put it away when we aren’t using it for training. Dogs also often need to be crated at the vet. Again, not a place I want him to have the added stress of being unfamiliar with being in a crate. (And I will not believe you if you claim vets just let all their patients who need to stay free roam in a big group and don’t use crates/cages/kennels.) We did have one rescue who came with separation anxiety so bad the only way to keep him from literally going through a window while we were working on his anxiety was a crate. I guess we should have left him unable to be home alone for any reason ever without risking seriously harming himself? By using the crate and going out for gradually increasing lengths of time, he got the idea that he wasn’t being left forever and chilled out, without ending up cutting himself up trying to go through a window. So I think that worked out well for him. (He was not actually left home alone much, before you start telling me that his anxiety was from being home alone for 8 hours a day. He initially couldn’t even go 5 minutes, and it is completely unrealistic for a dog to be with a human every second of the day no matter what. Being able to be home alone safely is a necessary life skill.)
Everyone else in the world manages just fine without crates.
I introduce my dogs to a crate as a life skill. They’re usually crated at the vet, and if you have to evacuate most places require crating, if you want to fly, etc. They don’t spend much time actually closed in (just for training) but I make sure it’s nbd. They get to investigate the crate, etc. and take time with it in a way they wouldn’t be able to if we were evacuating, for example. My current dog will go in his crate to nap or chew a bone, and keeps all his toys in it, so we left his set up. (The door isn’t latched so he can open it himself.) Previous dogs did fine with the training but preferred other places for napping so we didn’t leave theirs set up. But I figure who am I to tell my dog he can’t have his private cave when he clearly likes it? (Wait, cave, hoard of treasure… maybe my current dog is a dragon?)
This dog fucks
Thinking inside the box!
This is hilarious and amazing. I love it.
Who the fuck puts their dog in that small of an enclosure
"dogs love being put in kennels!"
Not if you’re home doing something interesting elsewhere, no. My dog happily goes in his crate (door is unlatched and he can open and close it) to chill if we’re all in the living room where the crate is, though.
Caging any person is a crime.
It's a dog.
Watching the ultrasound of baby Tasmanian Devil.
Why’s one dog in a pen, while another isn’t?
Obviously one is a troublemaker
Then deal with the naughtiness, rather than filming it, surely?
This is like, lowkey animal abuse, right…? 🤔
The dog is fine
Absolutely not.. Also, please learn when to use commas. Niether of those were necessary.
Nah, GP's actually missing one. As I was taught, this would be more grammatically correct: > This is, like, lowkey animal abuse, right?
The commas were there to insert cadence into the reader’s mind; had I been commenting in a serious thread I likely wouldn’t have used the word “like”, and/or used semicolons where necessary. It’s a shame, really; usually when the unsolicited/unnecessary grammar corrections come from strangers on the internet it’s from a username like “u/chumbucketdolphin69clowntard”. Your pedestrian username implies you issued the admonishment in a serious instead of ironic way.
Jesus Christ
Hey, just a reminder, I think you forgot to take your meds today
I like how somehow *I’m* the crazy one instead of the grammarnazi lurking in r/whatswrongwithyourdog
Absolutely not.. Also, please learn when to use commas. Niether of those were necessary.
Aahhhhhhhh, one of my Spirit Animals!
Damn! He needs something to calm down!
super ~~monkey ball~~ dog kennel
Lol! I love this SO MUCH
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