I was really nervous about leaving my 4 month old puppy with my parents for a week while my husband and I went on vacation.
- The puppy is not trained very well yet.
She is doing good with house breaking but she still panics when she is left in her crate. Still, my parents said that they were happy to watch her. Of course I called them as soon as my plane landed to see how my puppy was doing. They said she was fine. I kept calling all week and each time I was told my puppy was very well behaved and was having no trouble going in her crate. I thought my parents were lying to me to be nice but they swore she really was doing great in her crate. When I got back and picked her up I found out why: my parents had put the dog’s crate in their kitchen which has heated floors. I guess my puppy felt warm, safe, and secure in her crate on those heated floors. Unfortunately my house doesn’t have heated floors so she went right back to crying in her crate at my house. The only room with heated floors in my room is the master bathroom. I put the crate in there and it worked like a charm. She was quiet all day. The only problem is that there is no room for anything but the crate in the bathroom now. I might need to spring and get heated floors in the living room or kitchen now. Why not the whole house?