How large should my dogs crate be?

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chris

I have a German Shepherd puppy. Videos that I have been watching say that I should get a dog crate wherein my dog can stand sit and turn. I've been thinking that if I do get such a size, my dog's growth will stop because of the crate. Also, German Shepherds are large bred dogs. What will happen when it grows up? I find it too expensive to buy a crate everytime the dog grows bigger.

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It will not restrict his size. He might be uncomfortable in a crate that is too small AND you should never leave him in there for too long. My bullmastiff has the largest crate we could buy (even through special order). He now is too big for it, but still sleeps in it every night with the door open...voluntarily. I would never leave him in it for long, but if I can't put him outside when I leave for short periods of time due to weather, etc, I will close the door. He can still stand up and turn around in it, but I would never leave him in there for more than an hour or two...and he LIKES the cage.

As far as restricting growth...as I said before, it won't. My dog is now over 100 lbs...I do not think his growth has been restricted in the slightest.

Buy the largest one you can buy...german shepherds are not as big as bullmastiffs, but they are still very large. If he seems to like it more cozy, divide off part of the crate so the area is smaller while he is still little. My dog didn't care wither way.

Problem with getting rabbits from cage to crate in garden?

celine

So I have 2 Flemish giant rabbits, they have a pretty big cage, but we bought a large metal dog crate (biggest size) so we can let them in the garden in the summer

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First we only had the male (he's castrated), and we had grass and sand in his cage, but when we got the female a year later, she started to dig, not that much of a problem, because we have concrete plates 50cm deep in the ground and around the cage in the ground, so they cant escape (that was for our dwarf rabbits we had before), but we also have chickens in the same cage, but they're seperated by a fence, but whatever

So to give them the chance to also be able to eat fresh grass, we bought the crate, they can't dig through the holes in the bottom but the grass comes through it, they really enjoy it

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But the problem is that we have a pretty big garden, and in the middle is a tree and we have the crate under it so there's shadow in it
My rabbits love to get petted, but hate it to be carried, the one we had first could go freely in the garden but when we got the 2nd, it wasn't possible since she'll definately run away,
So we have to carry them from their cage to the crate, wish causes them a lot of stress, my hands and arms a lot of scratches and they lose a lot of fur so my clothes are full of fur if I carry them

Can someone give me an idea/advice how I could fix this? I thought of buying a XXL rabbit tunnel (they're 15m) but they're too small for my rabbits (since they're flemish giants)
Is there anything else I could use to get them from the cage to the crate without having to carry them?
(I also can't carry the crate with them in since their paws will stick through it)
@Elizabeth
They're flemish giants, and most harnesses are made for dwarf or normal sized rabbits, so they won't fit
I bought a puppy harness and triedto but it on the female (did it very slowly and patiently) but she hated it :(
The male can easily be free in the garden, he won't run away, but I don't dare it with the female since she a bit euhh.... aggressive? Active? You know what I mean.... She's born the August 15th so her zodiac sign is Leo, I nickname her Pretty Little Lion :p
But if the male is free in the garden, and the female in the crate, she just flips out, so I can't just put her alone in the crate

@Other two
Thank you! Hadn't even thought of that! We have a carrier for if they have to go to the vet, they're scared of it, so maybe in this way I can teach them something fun is gonna happen when they go in it!

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what u could do is buy a large dog carrier and when you want them to move, tempt them into it and carry it across to the crate. When they go in and out the crate give them a treat and praise them, it works, when you carry them in a carrier walk really slowly and try to either get a really dark one or one thats really airy and they can see around them (that one is best), the plastic ones last longest. Hope it helped,

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