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raids the garbage, shreds your possessions, craps on everything, and TP’s your house.
The crate also acts as his personal playpen, keeping him from injuring himself doing
things that little puppies have no business doing. Mothers can’t watch babies or puppies.
ALL the time, that’s why they gave us playpens (crates) to keep them contained out of
harm’s way. Tossing the puppy outside is NOT the solution.
Why did you get him in the first place? Even if you plan for him to be an “outdoor” dog,
it is a good idea to socialize your puppy to being indoors, and potty train him, if later on
in life he moves up in the world.
This is the start of the socialization period where puppies need to meet as many kinds of
new “nouns” (people, places, and things) as possible. This means more than just the
company you might have over, or the immediate back yard.
You must expose your puppy to all kinds of things in the world so that he will not fear
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