Anxiety In Dogs

The first comprehensive expose on damage dogs and their families suffer from excessive crating, both in puppy mills and private homes. Caged Love reveals that many owners who buy their dogs rhinestone collars and call them “babies” also lock them in cages for 18-23 a day. And although “crate training” is proven to cause hundreds of physical, emotional and social problems and is a poor method for behavior and housetraining, dog industry “experts” and related special interests, motivated by $50 Billion in greed, are attempting to persuade America that “dogs love crates”. Free of emotional bias, Caged Love reveals the true risks of home dog crating. The book details scientific and neurologic research, expert opinions and true case studies that demonstrate predictable symptoms caused by excessive crating. These include: fear, aggression, lower IQ, “kennel craze”, “doggie autism” (dislike of touch and failure to bond with humans) and even the tendency to attack. Caged Love contrasts criminal cases of excessive crating and atrocities against dogs with quotes from well-loved animal behavior experts on how dogs can transform life for their owners as nature’s ambassadors and physical healers. And the authors offer detailed behavior shaping and housetraining advice to help owners to live with their dogs as true members of their families. It’s hard to believe dog lovers could be convinced to lock their pets in cages smaller than the legal requirement for laboratory dogs. Caged Love identifies contemporary cultural trends that make America vulnerable to home crating propaganda, and the sale of 2-4 million pups a year by commercial “puppy mills”, where abused dogs often spend their entire lives in cages. Caged Love examines the relationship between monetary profit and the growing popularity of crating, and surprising players in the pet industry and beyond that likely benefit in the millions, and billions, from dogs’ and owners’ distress. This groundbreaking book is meant to inspire further action and investigation by behavior experts, veterinarians, scientists, journalists/media and government- and everyone who cares about dogs- to remedy one of the biggest abuses of dogs today.