QUOTE (charred1 @ Nov 21 2009, 08:40 AM)

Thanks for the compliments! It's been awhile since my last pup, so I forgot how hard crate training is. It's killing me...I feel horrible when she cries in her crate.
Oh God, tell me about it!
I SWORE that my rottie Jazmin was going to be crate trained. After 10 minutes of howling in the crate in the living room (that felt like 10 yrs,

) I moved her to the downstairs bathroom and shut all of the doors. Her howling then got even louder, and sounded like I was cranking 20,000 volts through a baby!!!
I was horrified and could only take about 15 minutes of that! I was afraid my neighbors were going to call the cops! I moved her crate into my bedroom, right at the foot of the bed. She was happy with that, and fell sound asleep. I noticed her breathing sounded exactly like mine when I start to doze off.
It was easy to get her to get in her crate, she liked it from the beginning. After a couple of months, she started farting so bad, I woke up thinking that someone was burningtires in teh bedroom!!!

I moved her crate back to the living room, and everything has been fine since. Except she still farts a lot, and thinks she's a lapdog.