- Nov 1, 2025
- 9
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For a number of reasons, we want to get The Bee used to being crated. I finally found a good deal on a huge crate (I'm really cheap) and it's been sitting in our living room for a few days so she can get used to the scent. Today I started to put it together and The Bee was inside it as soon as the top half was in place. She stayed inside it for quite a while. Later I got a bed in it and she went right back inside. Stayed for at least 45 minutes. This is a girl who's restless after sitting for 15 minutes.
Eventually I put the door across the opening, and that didn't bother her at all.
I think, in her unknown to us past, a crate was her safe place -- her comfortable place. At one point I said "Let's go to your room," and she went right to and in the crate. A phrase from her past? I'm wondering, given all this, that she really might have been a mama at a puppy mill. Sadly, Wisconsin has a lot of then.
In the next few days we'll be acclimating Lady Bee to the crate, closing the door, etc. I should add that she -- on her own -- took a couple of toys into the crate.
Eventually I put the door across the opening, and that didn't bother her at all.
I think, in her unknown to us past, a crate was her safe place -- her comfortable place. At one point I said "Let's go to your room," and she went right to and in the crate. A phrase from her past? I'm wondering, given all this, that she really might have been a mama at a puppy mill. Sadly, Wisconsin has a lot of then.
In the next few days we'll be acclimating Lady Bee to the crate, closing the door, etc. I should add that she -- on her own -- took a couple of toys into the crate.
