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One of the important steps in Bullmastiff puppy training is crate training your puppy. Some people feel very bad, even cruel, about the idea of putting their puppies or adult dogs in a cage-like place called crate. So let us attend to this first.

Your puppy crate or kennel crate is a dog house within your house. Just as you enjoy having your own room where you can go for peace and privacy, your Bullmastiff puppy also loves having his own room. Unlike a cage which is typically used for absolute confinement or punishment the purpose of a kennel crate is to provide for your puppy’s natural instinct of living in a den-like enclosure which it can come out of or go into according to a set routine which it loves to follow.

Additionally, in the process of crate training your puppy the crate serves as a very effective housebreaking tool. It helps prevent your puppy from destructive chewing. It keeps your little Bullmastiff puppy away from many a potentially dangerous item or situation. It can even help reduce your puppy’s separation anxiety.

Crate training your puppy also helps when you want to teach your puppy to have bladder and bowel control. Puppies naturally dislike soiling their ‘dens’ or resting/sleeping quarters, so if your approach to crate training your puppy is appropriate, your puppy will learn to wait and hold back from urinating or defecating until released from its crate instead of eliminating inside at its own convenience. What this means is that using a crate you can exploit short term confinements as a technique to inhibit your dog from eliminating when confined, so that she will want to eliminate when released and taken to an appropriate area.

An important thing to remember about crate training your puppy is that a crate, or any other means of confinement, should never be used as a punishment. If you do so, your Bullmastiff puppy will begin to hate the crate. It will no more prefer its crate as a place to rest in.

If your aim for your puppy is to happily use the crate throughout its lifetime, make its crate experience a fun thing to do repeatedly. Go as far as to furnish it with toys and treats, attach a water dispenser, place a towel or blanket to make a comfortable bed or sofa for it to enjoy sleeping or sitting on it.

Other good uses of crate training your puppy are portability and social acceptability. As any other portable household item, it can be moved from place to place within or outside your house as and when necessary. While outside, crates serve as a travel cabins for your bullmastiff puppy. You can freely and fearlessly travel by car or plane. Even some public places like hotels or hospitals now-a-days allow dog entrance with the only requirement that they are crated and crate trained.

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