Best place in the house for a puppy’s crate

[Autumnlover24]

Where is best to locate puppies crate when we bring him home?

The options are living room, kitchen, dining room.

Most used areas are living room and kitchen but we eat in the kitchen. Dining room doesn’t get used so could almost be his own bedroom if this is helpful for him?

Is it better for puppies to have a quiet room with no distractions or to be amongst the hustle and bustle of the family? I’m keen to ensure plenty of rest.

Please no suggestions not to crate train.

Thanks

Training a dog to be comfortable in a closed crate, for extended periods, is one of the most important things a responsible dog owner can do.

Sometimes owners have no choice. For example if your dog has torn or ruptured it's cruciate ligament then the best thing for it is to be confined in a crate - because even with strong medication given half a chance, they'll put too much weight on the injured leg and risk doing even more damage. Extreme injuries, that result in long periods of crate rest, can happen to any dog in the most unexpected of circumstances. I've known dogs literally jump off the sofa and end up on crate rest for 16 weeks because they've landed at a bad angle or in a funny position.

Imagine if you haven't trained your dog for that situation, and then you suddenly put it through a complex - and painful - surgery (for no fault of yours or the dogs own) and then put it in a crate that it's not used to or trained to use...how do you think it would cope?

I'd say the dog owner in that situation, who has never bothered to make their dog see a crate as a safe space, is far more negligent and incompetent than any dog owner who has carefully trained their dog to be comfortable in a crate.

Inflammatory rhetoric on pretty uncontentious, and actually pretty sensible training methods, like this only separate the good dog owners from the poor ones.

Edit: just to add, I don't use a crate for mine. But they are all crate trained for the exact reasons I have set out above and because I love them and wouldn't ever want them to be in the situation I've described above.

My dog had to crate rest for 2 months due to a car accident - he was never ever in one before. He was perfect in it. We were given lots of advice to stimulate him etc in it as well as lifting him out to the loo and had it in very room we were in . Once he was done we sold the crate and hopefully never ever have to use it again.
Another dog of mine - 14 years old was also crate rested once she had her cancer treatment, was a rescues and never crate trained so also was fine, once it was by the heat she was fine
All my dogs have their own beds in every room here, have free access to inside house and outside, they have never been crate trained and have survived any instance we have had to put them in crates which thankfully has been only 3 occasions in the past 10 years

@Wexone then you got lucky. Not every dog is like that. Just because yours are, doesn't mean others will be.

It's responsible to train your dogs to be happy in a crate. Which is entirely my point.

I disagree - all my dogs are rescues, we are dealing with a lot of other issues. People who don't crate train are not as you say
"is far more negligent and incompetent "
I have been lucky my dog survived the car accident and cancer as well as all the other issues they went through before i got them not because i didnt crate train them

@Wexone we're not talking about rescues though...OP is specifically asking about a puppy. Which should be crate trained.

Of course rescues are different. That's obvious.

If they are rescues, how do you know they weren't crate trained as puppies?

One of my rescues was a puppy aswell, and the one that was in the car accident - he was not crate trained at all,
Not crate training them is not as you said
"is far more negligent and incompetent "
I dont believe that just because you don't carte train your puppy you are a bad owner, have had dogs nearly 30 years now, from puppies to oldies never ever crate trained nor will

True to a certain extent, wouldn't say they were as most were abandoned and needed to be loved not put in a cage however the ones that were puppies most definitely weren't, last one was dumped in the pound as his so called "breeder" couldn't sell him, lucky enough what was done to him hasn't affected him we think who knows what the future brings.
i have seen and dealt with enough negligence, abuse and incompetence from bad owners, not crating your dog or puppy is not one of them .

As I said before, my dog is more distressed left out if his crate if we go out

How can you train a puppy not to eat blinds or the couch or urinate on wires if you need to go out? What a lot of rubbish! Dogs are naturally den animals by nature and fee safer in one than left alone in a big room

I would put the crate wherever you’ll be. Pup will need to be with you.
For all the crate haters? I use a pen for young pups. Stops them chewing things that could cause injury or even death. Means I can have a shower knowing they will be alive when I get back to them. They aren’t shut in for long. They are fed and taken to the toilet and played with first so they generally crash out.

My 10 year old border collie,lays under the dining table in the corner nearest the wall. The 2 year old gets underneath the mechanism of DHS reclinling chair. Dogs still have the wolf instinct, they don't want anything creeping up behind them.

Totally agree. I never used crates until my latest dog. Yes, I expected chewing. That's OK. I've had dogs chew before.
I did not expect to have the utility demolished. I did not expect him to destroy pipes and flood the utility. I did not expect him to find and chew through electric wires that no other dog had ever noticed. He also chewed the wall, which now needs plastering and decorating.
£1,000 later one of the many workmen told me to get a crate or he would be becoming a regular visitor.
All of our dogs have always slept in the utility. That's where his crate is. That's where he sleeps at night. He loves his crate. Took to it immediately. The utility is next to the kitchen. We were constantly passing through and talking to him. He has other beds scattered around the house which he is free to use.
It's like popping a baby into its cot for a nap.