| Thanks for the letting me off the guilt-trip roller coaster that I always seem to find myself on!
And I guess my dry sense of humor prevented me from accurately communicating what I was asking!
I know all too well the value in crate training and all my dogs were. What I was asking, and purely from a curiousity standpoint, was does anyone see the value of crating a dog for short periods for the same effect that the 30 minute "down" would accomplish behaviorally?
Kaiser is crate trained and he is crated when necessary but isnot crated during the day while I'm at work and he doesn't sleep in a crate at night. And - knock on wood - the leather sofa remains intact! :D |