Build Calm, Choice, and Confidence Around the Crate

Crate problems don't start with the crate, but with how the crate is introduced.

Crate Games is a step-by-step guide designed to help puppies and adult dogs learn to feel safe, calm, and confident around the crate before it becomes a management tool. Instead of forcing compliance and hoping they "cry it out", this guide focuses on choice, clarity, and emotional safety.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Build positive value for the crate without pressure

• Teach calm, voluntary entry and exit

• Prevent rushing out, and door fixation

• Introduce closing the crate door without creating undue stress

• Reinforce stillness and patience inside the crate

• Transition smoothly into real-life crate use

This guide walks you through six structured crate games, each designed to layer skills gradually, from simple in and out movement to calm behaviour behind a closed door. Every game includes clear goals, step-by-step instructions, progression guidelines, and common mistakes to avoid.

It also contains a printable quick reminders page that goes over the crate games in a simplified style.

Crate Games are the emotional foundation that makes crate training successful.

Perfect for:

• Puppies being introduced to a crate

• Adult dogs new to crating

• Dogs that rush or explode out of crates

• Owners who want calm, predictable crate behaviour

• Trainers looking for clean, conflict-free foundations

Format: Digital PDF, emailed straight to you

Length: 36 pages

Note: Link to download is valid for 30 days. Link can be manually sent again by contacting Civil Canine.