Crate training is an efficient and effective method of training your puppy right from the beginning.
Usually, dogs do not like to soil their resting or sleeping place and prefer to eliminate elsewhere.
Therefore, confining your puppy to the crate for short periods inculcates control on its urge to eliminate at any time.
Apart from acting as an effective housebreaking tool, crate training also helps to ease out and reduce separation anxiety.
Dogs tend to chew and tear off the furniture, slippers, or other household articles when bored or when not provided with toys to play with.
Crate training helps to put a check on such destructive behavior and also eliminates the risk of choking.
Crate training also restricts the entry of the puppy to potentially dangerous areas of the home and keeps it away from dangerous household items such as electrical wires, pesticides and other toxic chemicals especially when the owner is too busy to supervise the puppy.
A crate also serves as a travel cabin for your puppy and makes it feel less panicky and more relaxed.
Basically, a crate is like a mobile home for the puppy where it prefers to retire whenever it is tired or unwell.
Considering all these advantages of crate training, a lot of dog owners tend to adopt this training method to housetrain their puppies.
However, crate training should not be abused.
The puppy must not be left locked in the crate for very long periods when you are out of your home or very busy to attend to the puppy.
This is also not the place to lock up your dog as a punishment.
Learn to confine your puppy for short periods of time, especially when you are at home and allow it to eliminate frequently after fixed duration.
Remember to reward your puppy if it learns to controls its urge to eliminate and relieves itself only at the toilet spot.