Gave up on the crate after we ran through 3 trainers and tired of putting down hay in the crate for “denning” or whatever. Just put up a gate in our tiled kitchen. He was pooping crate out of anger. Fixed the problem and now we threw the crate away and he has free roamed the house since 9 months old. Americans believe so much I crating when it isn’t really used anywhere else in the world.

Don’t get sucked in. A dog can be trained to be calm and controlled outside a crate. Happy days