Why crate if housebroken?

[iBaman]

Originally Posted by KentuckyGSDLover

Rey is housebroke, but needs a lot of structure right now. She gets rewarded for going into her crate when she follows the command, "get in your crate," which turns also into a training exercise. When she stresses, she actually wants to be in her crate. But the longer I have her, the more she wants out of that crate to join her "pack" and is starting to think about what she does, the consequences, and whether she wants to be in her "safe place" or out in the house with us where she follows my rules. This is correlating choices in behavior. She's choosing more and more to behave in a manner that doesn't afford a "safe place" to calm from getting herself in trouble. I'm a huge fan of crate training.

I love watching the wheels turn in their heads xD

I crate, because if I didn't, Sheldon would eat, destroy and make himself sick. So, for now, we crate him while we're gone.