Where do the puppies live?
As they get a little older -- more like six or seven weeks -- I mix it up. Sometimes I’ll have them together as a litter. They’ll run around and play and sleep together, and then I like to separate them all. I’ll put each puppy in a little crate by himself and I’ll put each one in a pen by himself. I start to get them used to that because I know once they go to a home, they’re not going to have each other to keep them company.We start with very short crating increments, like maybe half an hour. I’ll put them in the crates, and they’re all screaming. After ten or fifteen minutes, they all just go to sleep. There’s not a dog that leaves my house that doesn’t love a crate. They can be safe there. You throw a treat into the back of the crate, so the crate becomes ‘Oh wow, I get a pig ear when I go in there. You start with short periods of time, gradually getting longer. And so crate training is the easiest thing in the world to do.
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