The food elicits eating behavior, which prevents lunging, barking and aggression. This simple technique can also be used to ameliorate an existing barrier-frustration problem in many cases. This latter solution is more labor-intensive and requires kennel design to incorporate regular food delivery in this manner. Housetraining Regression Dogs adopted out from animal shelters will often lapse in their housetraining following their stay in the shelter. Newly adopted dogs are sometimes given too much freedom initially by well-meaning owners, sometimes to the point of allowing inappropriate elimination habits to become ingrained in the new setting.
Dogs are poor generalizers to start with.
Humans, being master generalizers, do not easily empathize with dogs and fail to take cautionary measures. It is likely that both housetraining and chew-training mishaps were thus minimized. Crates can become associated with comfort and safety during a dog's stay in a noisy, drafty kennel. The crate contrasts positively with the ambient environment. The opposite often occurs when owners try to crate-train dogs in their homes.