Ericka Kammerer wrote:

Tai wrote:

Also, I don't understand the term "dog crated", what is that? You surely
don't mean it's to put the family dog in it's travelling box while there are
visiting children in the home?

Yep, although people who crate their dogs in their
home typically have larger crates than the usual travel
carriers. In my experience, some dog lovers are fans
of crating and others aren't. It's not cruel, per se.
And yes, some people do crate their dogs (particularly
dogs who aren't yet well trained or who tend to get
stressed around unfamiliar people) when company is
around or when people are tromping in and out of the
house and creating a chance the dog might escape and
get hurt. Like anything, crating can be abused, but
it can also be a reasonable thing to do with some dogs
in some situations.

My dd#3 was on the phone today and she always crates her dog (a boxer)
if she is out. That's because he gets very anxious if she is not
there, and they want to keep his drooling all in one place. If her dh
lets the dog out in the back yard (fenced with an 8 foot board fence)
when she's not home, he's over the fence in a flash.

Her ds said to her - mom why does the dog like you so much? All you
do is yell at him.

I suggested she use him for dog agility or something but she said she
would not trust him off a leash especially where there were other dogs
or people because it would completely blow his mind. She walks to
school with the dog and the 2 kids (about half a mile one way), but
she doesn't take him to school with her when she picks up her ds
because she's afraid the he'd scare the kids because he would go
berserk and want to greet them all (instead of waiting for them to
come to him) and he is a fairly big dog


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