Cat Crate

A cat crate should be seen by the animal as its territory.

A cat crate is an essential product not only for transporting your feline friend, but to also acclamate it to a new home. Your cat crate will become a safe haven for the animal. It will see the crate as its safe place.

Just one use of a cat crate is to use it to get your pet used to its new environment. When you take a cat from one home to the new one, bad things can happen.

You may be kept awake all through the night by constant meowing. Your pet may shred the wood work in the house. It may even start spraying urine everywhere to mark its territory. These things and more can the result of taking your pet cat from one home to a new one.

Using a cat crate the right way will make the move a more pleasant experience for you and your pet. It will be a lot less stressful to. Your friends may tell you that putting an animal in a crate is not very nice and is actually punishing the pet for no reason. A crate is only being misuses when the pet owner is being cruel or abusing the pet. Being cruel and abusive would be defined as keeping the animal in the crate and not letting it get any exercise or use of a litter box.

Using it the proper way can help the kitty become acculamated to its new house without all of the aforementioned problems.

You really should get your pet used to a cat crate from when it is very young. By taking your pet to different places, it will be used to the minimal confinement in this limited space. I do not know of any people that take their cat to a lot of different places other than the vet. Maybe on or two that take them to work. If your pet is used to going to new places, you already have a good head start to moving it to your new home. The proper sized cat crate should be large enough that it can stand up on all legs and have enough room to turn around. You do not want it so large that the animal can play in there. There are many brands available out there. You may want to get the sales persons opinion on which is best.

These cat cratescome made of different materials. You may opt for a cardboard pet carrier carton. You may want something that will last longer that is made of plastic or a wire crate. When you arrive at your new place of residence, do not take the animal out of the crate and here you are. That would be a bad thing to do. Your little kitty will have a heart attack. It will associate the crate with being taken away from one home and just thrown into another. The whole idea of using this cat crate is so that your kitty will see it as place to get some sleep at night and when you are not there. When you fist get a crate, the kitty will be interested in and want to check out the inside. Play with your pet cat around the crate. Let it get used to it. Put the cats favorite thing to sleep on inside the cat crate. Put its favorite food in there.

One thing you will definitely want to do is tie the door of the crate open so your cat does not get locked in by accident. If this happens, it may never go near the thing again. Eventually, your pet should go in there by itself without any coaxing. once it goes in there, close the front door. Now the feline will probably want to get right out. Try giving her or him a piece of its favorite food while in there with the door closed. Let it stay in there for a while, then let it out. Do this several times. each time increase the amount of time the kitty spends in there with the door shut. Play with your pet for a little while when you let it out of the cat crate. If it is ansy in there, you may want to try a product called Feliway Spray. It is a pheremone that cats release when they are in there happy place. It will calm the pet down. You know you have been successful when your pet goes in the cat crate and sleeps there all on its own. Now that the cat has its territory coming with it to a new place, it will feel more safe and secure.

You should cat crate train your pet. It will benefit both your and your it.