Has anyone ever tried time outs for your dog? I have recently started sending my dog to her kennel when she does something bad. I tell her to stay there, and I don't close the door. I stay in another room. After a couple minutes I say ok, and she can come out. I've already noticed a great response to it. When she starts to bite on her leash, I say "do you want to be sent to your kennel" and she stops immediately. Has anyone else tried this and had good results?
2007-02-01 01:50:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Dogs
I have heard not to use the kennel as punishment, but nothing else seems to work. Just using the word "No" doesn't get her attention. Sending her to her kennel after the work "No" does. I think eventually she will get the point that "No" means "No" and I will no longer need to use her kennel as punishment. My dog is kenneled during the day, but she is very used to that and I think she understands the difference between that and punishment. I don't even have to send her to her kennel when I leave for work, she knows once she goes outside for the second time, it's time for her kennel. Plus, I use a very angry voice, when she does something wrong. It is very distinguishable, and she is a very smart dog.
2007-02-01 02:47:18 · update #1
I was instructed to never ever use the kennel as a form of punishment. The kennel needs to be a safe haven for the dog, and it won't feel safe in a place where he goes when he's in trouble. It would also confuse the dog when it is kenneled for other reasons when it isn't in trouble. So no, I have not had good results with using it as punishment, but I've never tried it.
2007-02-01 02:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sending your dog to her kennel for negative behavior is sending the wrong message. Her kennel should be her sanctuary, where she runs to if she needs to be alone - her own space. If you're using it for punishment she'll start resenting and resisting going to the kennel.
Try a different room of the house, or tell her to just down in a corner and to stay there if you need to do time out.
BUT the dog really doesn't understand what time out means. Punishment for a dog is not giving any sort of attention - positive or negative.
If she is doing something you don't like teach your dog the command "go to the corner".
I HIGHLY recommend to stop using the kennel in a negative manner.
2007-02-01 10:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by sillybuttmunky 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a wire kennel and a plastic portable travel kennel. While I'm at work and for sleepinig my puppy uses the wire kennel (more room in it). When I have to give her a time out she has to go to the portable one. That way she doesn't think of the wire one as a punishment place.
2007-02-01 14:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The distinction between time outs in the crate that actually benefit the dog, and the time outs that don't help the dog, it the amount of value that you've built for that crate. If you've spent the time with your dog giving treats in that crate, playing crate games, and making it a safe/good place to be, then the few times that you send the dog to the crate w/o a reward will simply function as you want them to : as a time-out.
I'm not wild about the "do you want to be sent...." threat, as I think it's not as clear as the rest of your teaching has been, but if it works, then it works. I will always counter one time out with at least 10 rewardable behaviors - in this example, I would be sending the dog to her crate for a reward for those 10 treats. Good job though - good question!
2007-02-01 11:55:46 · answer #4 · answered by Misa M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have used making mine lay down when they've done something wrong, and made them roll over to expose their bellies (a submissive position) if they've been aggressive in some unacceptable way. I think you have to be really careful about using their kennel as a time-out space, since you want them to feel relaxed when they're in there for confinement, and they might get confused if they're sent there as a punishment other times. Remember that a dog's attention span is very short, so you really have to be immediate about punishment and reward--they don't tend to make associations with time-separated events.
2007-02-01 09:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by callthedog 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think this would be an OK alternative except for dogs that need to be crated when an owner is not home.
I have been told by many dog professionals that if a dog is to be crate trained and confined to a crate while you are away, it is not a good thing to develop the dog's understanding of the crate as a punishment, because spending long amounts of time alone in there would then be stressful and unhappy for him.
If your dog isn't required to spend any long amounts of time in the crate, and if it's working well for you, I say go for it, and good job! :-)
2007-02-01 09:54:36 · answer #6 · answered by Kelly R 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have a bed for our dog, when he's bad he has to get on his bed. He knows he's done wrong and after a couple of times he doesn't repeat. You might have a seperate area for 'time out' and save the crate for a feel good place.
2007-02-01 13:08:43 · answer #7 · answered by geodragonlady1159 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm working on this with my pups but they seem to still be too young to get it (5 month old Labs) but my older adopted dog has it spot on. The mother of my Lab pups is the way you described. She will go to her kennel, door open, and stay until her owner tells her she can come out.
2007-02-01 09:56:53 · answer #8 · answered by MasLoozinIt76 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I works with some dogs, not with others. If it works for your dog, that's great. Each dog is slightly different and needs different techniques.
2007-02-01 10:37:50 · answer #9 · answered by DaBasset - BYBs kill dogs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tell my dog to go to her crate for a time out to calm down. Once she calms down, she comes out.
2007-02-01 09:55:37 · answer #10 · answered by KathyS 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋