Hi guys :)

i just want a bit of advice on the best way to get ruby out of her crate on a night, 
during the day if we go out she goes on her bed in the kitchen and has been as good as gold :D
anyway we want her to sleep on a bed in the dining room at night, this is where her crate has always been and she is happy to go in there still and its fine when she lays down but sat up she has to duck just out grown her crate :(  i dont want to get another and i think the one i have is the biggest in my pet shop anyway :)
we was going to start off the first couple of nights just leaving her door open then over a couple more nights take her bed out of it!! Is this the right way? or should we just go for it and fold the crate up and see how we get on???

any tips appreciated!!! thanks dawny x

ide do wat you sujjested,so she has a choice were she wants to go :)

How much too small is it ?? My youngest still sleeps in her crate (she's 3) despite it being too small :) (We don't shut the door tho' :) )

Daisy

She has to bend her head right down when shes sat up and shes always banging her head :)
it dominates my dining room and was only ever ment to be temporary untill i could trust her!!

They get quite attached to their puppy crates.  My big boy keeps getting in the pup's crate and he can only just turn round in it.  He does this by choice.  He must  have fond memories of his baby crate Bless him.

I would just take it away and put the replacement bed in its place.

My girls love thier crates I have two but mine are in the kitchen and I dont notice them.

Roni

A friend of mine had the same dilemma (I have never used them - had a puppy pen but found happier to sleep with the other dogs - puppy not me!) in the end after much deliberation as to what / when to do it.  She just put the bed where the crate used to be and the dog was absolutely fine!

Hope this is of some help!  Good luck,

Rachel

I bought one of those donut beds.  I plonked it down and the dog promptly curled up in it.  How did she know the bed was for her?  The crate (in another room I might add) was folded up there and then and put in garage.