Hi

I have a very excitable boxer boy, he is 23 weeks now, he was crate trained the moment we brought him home at 10 weeks.
He has the bowls which sit in a bracket and fix to one of the narrow ends of his crate. He has vetbed in the bottom, and has never weed or had a poo in his crate.

If we have to go out, he gets a kong in his crate stuffed with tasty titbits, something to chew on, and a great tip I got from someone while he is teething, is rope tuggy, I put it in the freezer and give it to him frozen, he loves it, seems to sooth his sore mouth.

He howled and barked the first couple of nights, i think it was too quiet for him, since he came from a house with 8 other pups and 3 adult dogs, so we just left the radio on with low volume and the problem was solved. he always gets fed in his crate, so he treats it as somewhere nice to go, the door is always open day and night, except when we are out. We have started to experiment this week by leaving him out the crate when we are out for short periods, he had a little chew on an plant ornament thing yesterday, but he is teething at the moment, and small setbacks have to be expected, i just gave him something else suitable for him to mouth.


Fingers crossed he doesnt fancy anything expensive to chew lol