Because we are hoping that your adoption will be a successful and rewarding experience for you and your new pet, we now offer a Rent-A-Crate Program . We will rent a crate to you for two months for $15.00. If the crate training works well you may order one from us or purchase one at a local store.

WHAT IS A DOG CRATE

A dog crate is a rectangular enclosure with a top and a door, made in a variety of sizes proportioned to fit any type of dog. Construction of wire, wood, metal, or molded fiberglass/plastic, its purpose is to provide guaranteed confinement for reasons of security, safety, housebreaking, protection of household goods, travel, illness, or just general control.

The dog crate has long been accepted, trusted, and taken for granted by dog show exhibitors, obedience and field trial competitors, trainers, breeders, groomers, veterinarians, and anyone else who handles dogs regularly. Individual pet owners, however, usually reject the idea of using a crate because they consider such enforced close confinement unfair, and even harmful to the dog.

CRUELTY OR KINDNESS?

As the pet owner sees it: “It's like a jail - it's cruel-I'd never put MY dog in a cage like that!” If this is your first reaction to using a crate, you are a very typical pet owner. As a reasonable human being, you really value your freedom; and since you consider your pet an extension of the human family, it's not only natural to feel that closing him in a crate would be mean and inhumane, would probably cause him to resent and even hate you, and might well result in psychological damage.

BUT-you are not a dog!

As the dog sees it: “I love having a room/house of my very own; it's my private special place, my ‘security blanket,' and the closed door really doesn't bother me'. If your dog could talk, this is how he might well express his reaction to using a crate! He would tell you that the crate helps to satisfy the “den instinct” inherited from his den-dwelling ancestors and relatives, and that he is not afraid or frustrated when closed in. He would further admit that he is actually much happier and more secure having his life controlled and structured by human beings - and would far rather be prevented from causing trouble than be punished for it later.

SO - to you it may be a “cage” to him, it's a “home.”