Pam
02-18-2002, 05:32 PM
Just like many other people on this board I have used crate training and found it to be a valuable housetraining tool. I was talking with a co-worker today, who used to work for my vet many years ago (small world) and we got on this subject of crate training. I have always known that MOST dogs won't soil in their crate because they won't soil the area where they live and sleep. I just figured that it was for reasons of hygiene, and never really gave it much thought, but she told me otherwise. She said that in nature a dog/wolf would never soil their sleeping area because it would give off an odor as to where they slept and make them more vulnerable in the event of an invasion by others. I don't know if this is actually true or not, but it made sense and absolutely amazed me that our present day, live-in-the-house kind of dogs still carry this marvelous trait!!