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16-09-2008, 08:50 PM
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Duggy and her crate
Hi there,
Any advice would be appreciated. Duggy is coming up to two, she's a black lab. Very cute, adorable and has the usual crazy lab personality. We've kept her crate up as she likes it so much, more often than not taking herself off to bed when she's tired. Also, it's useful for if we have young children round or people who are wary of dogs. One thing though, every morning at about 5am she starts scrabbling on the floor of the crate. The noise is worse than her barking or whining! If you ignore it, after a couple of minutes she stops, but then before long she starts again. I never go down when she's mid scrabbling as I know that's reenforcing bad behaviour, anyone got any ideas please? Thanks  
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16-09-2008, 10:23 PM
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Re: Duggy and her crate
Maybe she is doing it to let you know she needs to go to the toilet?
My dog started to do this when she needed to go to the toilet. She'd scratch at the bottom until I would get her up to urinate.
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16-09-2008, 10:26 PM
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17-09-2008, 06:47 AM
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When you say two do you mean two years or two months? If two months then I agree she's possibly letting you know she needs to go toilet. Wait for her to stop scrabbling a minute or two, then go take her to toilet. No play etc, just toilet and praise when she goes, then back in the crate. If however you mean two years she should be able to go through the night for 8/10 hours. If this is the case then it's more likely that she just wants out of the crate. I would suggest waiting until she stops scrabbling then let her out of the crate, but give her no physical/verbal/eye contact, and just go straight back to bed closing your bedroom door. You'll need to take her bed out of the crate as you do this and place it where you would like her to rest. If she is two years this could be her way of letting you know she's ready to sleep outside the crate at night. I know it might be tiring, but keep doing this for a week, don't switch straight away to leaving her outside to sleep at night. You can of course leave the crate out for her so that you can still use it during the day when necessary. Hope this helps
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17-09-2008, 08:32 AM
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Re: Duggy and her crate
Hi firstly thanks for your replies.
Duggy is coming up to two years old not two months (sorry should have clarified!) The crate is never locked at night, it's left unlocked with the door open and she also has another bed in the same room which she usually sleeps on during the day. She just likes going to the crate at night. It's not the toilet she needs, as we used to go down and open the back door, whilst we'd be doing that she'd sneak upstairs and when we finally track her down she's snuggled under the covers of our bed! Also she whines when she needs the loo I think it's purely an attention thing, also I think the light mornings haven't helped much, we don't have blinds in the kitchen and I guess she just assumes if it's light it's time to play.
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17-09-2008, 08:36 AM
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Looks like someone will be putting up some blinds then 
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17-09-2008, 10:21 AM
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Re: Duggy and her crate
Our puppy has started doing this at 6 am but we have the opposite problem - he's already in our room! We started taking his crate down when he gets up during the night (usually about 4 or 5 am) and now he stays quiet til we get up!
I think some blackout blinds would be a good idea! Funny she's scratching at the crate when the door is open 
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