I used the crate for training purposes only knowing that they don't want to soil or pee in their own den.
Then gradually she was allowed outside the crate in the main level of the house when I wasn't there for increased periods of time up to today when she has free roam of the main floor whilst I am at work. Crate is never used now at all and is gone.
IMO crating is not mean ....... as long as the door of the crate is left open and the dog can come and go as it pleases. Once it is closed and the dog is confined there it becomes a cage.
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