May 2010 – The crate became an issue while we were on vacation

It has been some time since I last updated this blog, and for this I apologize. Once the spring came I had many outdoor chores to do and was exhausted in the evenings, so did not get a chance to write.

Ok, so where did I leave off?

In the beginning of May we went on vacation and hired a house sitter. Our friend Rob stayed at our house for the week, which meant that Tari was going to have to stay in her crate all day. The week went well except for the fact that she really didn’t like staying in her crate. Each day she let Rob know that she was trying to get out. She pushed the tray under the crate out, ripped the throw rug that we had place on top of a tarp which was on top of our bedroom rug. She ruined the throw rug and thank goodness she did not rip through the tarp. Rob tells us toward the end of the week when he came home just about all of the pins that hold the crate together were bent and if he had been gone another hour she surely would have met him at the door. Tari was good for Rob but was so glad to see us return. With this issue we had to do something. Our last grey, Isis did not like the wired crate either, so we tried the closed-in travel crate. This worked for Isis so we thought maybe the same would work for Tari.

Hence, we brought up Isis’s old crate. Tari did not care for it but after a few nights she reluctantly went in but was not a happy pup. For one thing, the crate was too small for her. This is when we realized that Tari was really quite a bit larger than Isis and this crate was just not go to do…back to the original wire crate. We decided that maybe if we put the crate in our closet perhaps it will seem more secure and comforting to her. Our closet is quite large and again this is where Isis slept at night as well. This turned out well. We have our solution.