Crate Training a Bust

Ok we give up. Here' is Barley's latest break out from her crate. You can see the bars hanging that she broke off with her teeth. $1500.00 worth of dental surgery later, she's been put on anti-anxiety meds (as well as sedatives for emergencies, anti-inflammatories, & pain pills) and we've given up on the crate training. Yesterday we bought a harness and now we chain her outside when we go to town. She seems much happier - who knew!! She's also been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive neurotic behaviours coupled with separation anxiety and confinement anxiety. And I was the one who said 'no puppy, they are too much work!"

Barley Breaks Free

Barley breaks out of her crate while we are in town. She bent the side bars with her teeth (breaking off a tooth root and all in the process). When they were bent, she was able to push one of the ends out. That isn't an open door to the crate, that is the whole end of it pushed off. Then she got blood all over the room as she leapt up and down against the doors. We came home to blood splashed on the doors and walls and dripped on the floor. Oh yeah, she destroyed her foam bed too.... we took her to the vet but other than one lost tooth and a swollen jaw, she was fine.