My German Shepard puppy (7 months), Zeus is a great escape artist as well. Your video helped keep him in. We used about 48 zip ties and three Carabiner clips. This worked like a champ!! Thank you so much for your video!
I've got a German Shepherd I guarantee can escape even a reinforced crate. It's a huge amount of stress my mother-in-law's putting on me, who is not in good health anywhere near what would be required to take care of a young German Shepherd. And refuses to get rid of her. You guys should do a video on solutions for German shepherds because they are one of the best escape artist I've ever seen
Hey Aaron I feel you on that 1. I have a Shepard and same crate like here. And she bit thru it like the incredible hulk😆 Need a stronger crate . Much love from Louisiana!!😎
@@adorable2026 man my mother in law who has an alcohol dependency, shed in very poor health, her living conditions are beyond anything I can explain, and will only allow minimal help, as long as it's on her terms. Long story short, she's jobless due to her condition recently, and like a hole in the head took on MORE responsibility purchasing this young German Shepard that she doesn't even have the physical ability to train, control, or take care of for lack of a better word. Anyway, she refuses to place the dog outside during the night, wants her in the crate in the spare room. And the dog freaks out, gets stir crazy, especially when thunder storms occur. She's broken through multiple times. We'll my mother in law actually wants me to use scrap material, a piece of a ornamental old gate and zip ties to weld on to the crate just to get by. I refused and said I believe the best route is going to be to purchase SCH-40 (1-5/8") steel pipe, and I'll weld and fabricate a steel frame on the inside edges of the crate and weld the crates panels to the newly built frame. That way the frame work is rounded and on the inside where the dog would not be able to grab onto and if she does there's no way she'd compromise full weight pipe. So either that or welding 9ga steel chain link wire to the steel frame you make a commercial grade boarding kennel. She's just so damn stubborn when it comes to expenditures. I won't bring my welder down there if she won't buy proper materials, because spit and glue approach is only a matter of time before that is compromised, and it's a liability to the dogs safety, I'd be the biggest P.O.S if I welded it her way, and the dog could end up severely injuring herself getting stuck or lacerations, even death, due to poor construction attempt. It would be pinned on me. Sorry for the long story 😉 but appreciate yall reading. Those who wish to complain, go do a swan dive in to your driveway. 😁
I bet my 92 lb PitBoxer has decided a year ago..no more crate..I'm sorry n the next room and he literally has Chewed thru the steel bars..warped parts out of shape and got thru..I zip tied in many areas .he's not pushing thru .he's Eating thru steel. It all started when I went to hospital for 3 days .my friend that he loves .came here to care for him and left him in crate after he was out for hours . Now I can't get him to stop this. 3 yrs he did well from 6 mo old to 3...He's thick headed and won't stay confined... I'm a prisoner in my own home
Coming from experience of caring for an escape artist with crippling separation anxiety, even the most determined dog will break those "reinforced" cages. We bought one for our dog and he managed to break the bars at the welds and slip through a hole about 4 by 6 inches (for context, he's about 55 lbs, somewhat lean). And this was the second or third time we put him in this cage. Plus, the "bars" on these reinforced cages were actually hollow, and pretty thin-walled from what I could tell. I'd sooner call them tubes than bars. The only one that's held up for us so far has been a cage we were given by the local shelter that looks similar to the wire cage (the one with zip ties in this video), but the bars are much thicker and robust, I'd say around three to four times the thickness if you don't include the coating of paint on the wire cage in the video. It seems to be an older model, and nothing we've seen in stores or online compares to the thickness of those bars/wires. However, our dog is still slowly bending the bars, licking at them, causing the locking mechanism and many of the bars and welds to begin to deteriorate due to rust and fatigue. A segment or two of the bars have already been wrenched off. We've come home to seeing pools of drool around the door of the cage where he's been licking and gnawing at the bars, rust stains on his snout and paws, sometimes a scrape or two from the effort he's put in. He's determined, no doubt, but it's heartbreaking seeing him like that. Honestly at this point I'm contemplating how hard it would be to make our own cage with perhaps not rebar, but maybe using it as the outside edges and using 1/4-inch metal rods in between. I'd at least feel comfortable leaving him in there and knowing he couldn't escape in at least 10 years of rust buildup and metal fatigue. We love the crap out of this boy, take good care of him, but separation anxiety is almost literally the only thing we haven't yet been able to train out of him. We think it's a product of the years before we adopted him, he had been passed around to at least three different homes that we know of (and who knows how they treated him). He likely thinks we're going to forget about him, even though we have, without fail, come back home every time.
I have a pitbull who has separation anxiety and he's be destroying his crate as well. Also probably from the past. I was wondering what you did to help with that or what you ended up doing? Looking for any help here
My pit mix escaped from this very crate last night. He broke two spot welds at the bottom amd bent the piece below the door up enough to get out. He cut his face up pretty good while he was at it. He's a rescue who was kenneled for almost two years. He loves his crate and sleeps in it, but he doesn't like it when I leave. This kennel is a no-go for my guy, unfortunately.
My Malinois has started to move her cage completely, like still inside of it and moving it towards the front door when I leave an its a BIG issue cause I live in an apartment complex, my floors are true wood and she has bent the bars by chewing them. I have put toys and bones as “enrichment “ in their with her to see if it would help and it worked for maybe 2-3 days and she started again.
I stopped as soon as I saw the zip ties 😂 Doesn’t work for my Staffy Mix. I used industrial padlocks and he broke the wires at the bottom. End of the day if you have a STRONG breed invest in a heavy duty crate.
Not sure if they make a heavy duty crate as strong as he is. He's broken out of every steel gate we bought..right through it..bending bars like Hercules. That's in the kitchen and I'm just n the living room some 40ft away.
Yes..he chewed thru each zip tie, bend all the bars and literally chewed thru them a 3x3 spot that he miraculously squirmed out of..all 92lbs with a big butt.
@@Steiny5843I'm seriously thinking at this point..I can't be captive in my home so he feels safe. He had the whole kitchen..no. A huge crate 3x his size ...no. Leg him loose to walk around ( I'm in the house... a small house...some 40ft away...and he's still not happy, looking to destroy anything, finding things to destroy..or peeing on the wooden floors. At 4 I believed he'd outgrow this, he's actually gotten way worse.
Where can that heavy duty crate at the end of the video be purchased? Its 2023 and just came across this video. Wire crates today are made so cheap, if your dog has any desire to get out they most likely will be able to. I've done the whole zip tie/clips around all the edges and dogs have just pulled the wire cage itself apart and got out. The dog I need to crate is crate trained and has no issues being in the crate, its only when I'm gone for more than a couple hours she gets bored and would rather be sleeping on the couch. Plastic crates are useless, a few pounces against the door (by an 80lb dog) and the "lock" assembly (middle dial with one bar up/one bar down) just pops right out of place.
My German Shepard puppy (7 months), Zeus is a great escape artist as well. Your video helped keep him in. We used about 48 zip ties and three Carabiner clips. This worked like a champ!! Thank you so much for your video!
I've got a German Shepherd I guarantee can escape even a reinforced crate. It's a huge amount of stress my mother-in-law's putting on me, who is not in good health anywhere near what would be required to take care of a young German Shepherd. And refuses to get rid of her. You guys should do a video on solutions for German shepherds because they are one of the best escape artist I've ever seen
Hey Aaron I feel you on that 1. I have a Shepard and same crate like here. And she bit thru it like the incredible hulk😆 Need a stronger crate . Much love from Louisiana!!😎
@@adorable2026 man my mother in law who has an alcohol dependency, shed in very poor health, her living conditions are beyond anything I can explain, and will only allow minimal help, as long as it's on her terms. Long story short, she's jobless due to her condition recently, and like a hole in the head took on MORE responsibility purchasing this young German Shepard that she doesn't even have the physical ability to train, control, or take care of for lack of a better word.
Anyway, she refuses to place the dog outside during the night, wants her in the crate in the spare room. And the dog freaks out, gets stir crazy, especially when thunder storms occur. She's broken through multiple times. We'll my mother in law actually wants me to use scrap material, a piece of a ornamental old gate and zip ties to weld on to the crate just to get by.
I refused and said I believe the best route is going to be to purchase SCH-40 (1-5/8") steel pipe, and I'll weld and fabricate a steel frame on the inside edges of the crate and weld the crates panels to the newly built frame. That way the frame work is rounded and on the inside where the dog would not be able to grab onto and if she does there's no way she'd compromise full weight pipe.
So either that or welding 9ga steel chain link wire to the steel frame you make a commercial grade boarding kennel.
She's just so damn stubborn when it comes to expenditures. I won't bring my welder down there if she won't buy proper materials, because spit and glue approach is only a matter of time before that is compromised, and it's a liability to the dogs safety, I'd be the biggest P.O.S if I welded it her way, and the dog could end up severely injuring herself getting stuck or lacerations, even death, due to poor construction attempt. It would be pinned on me.
Sorry for the long story 😉 but appreciate yall reading.
Those who wish to complain, go do a swan dive in to your driveway. 😁
@@VentureWelding hey Aaron true. I pray for your mom health. I'll just purchase a steel crate. Good luck!
I bet my 92 lb PitBoxer has decided a year ago..no more crate..I'm sorry n the next room and he literally has Chewed thru the steel bars..warped parts out of shape and got thru..I zip tied in many areas .he's not pushing thru .he's Eating thru steel.
It all started when I went to hospital for 3 days .my friend that he loves .came here to care for him and left him in crate after he was out for hours .
Now I can't get him to stop this. 3 yrs he did well from 6 mo old to 3...He's thick headed and won't stay confined...
I'm a prisoner in my own home
@@adorable2026 honestly the only way the house one, is to have a crate custom welded together all the way around.
Coming from experience of caring for an escape artist with crippling separation anxiety, even the most determined dog will break those "reinforced" cages. We bought one for our dog and he managed to break the bars at the welds and slip through a hole about 4 by 6 inches (for context, he's about 55 lbs, somewhat lean). And this was the second or third time we put him in this cage. Plus, the "bars" on these reinforced cages were actually hollow, and pretty thin-walled from what I could tell. I'd sooner call them tubes than bars. The only one that's held up for us so far has been a cage we were given by the local shelter that looks similar to the wire cage (the one with zip ties in this video), but the bars are much thicker and robust, I'd say around three to four times the thickness if you don't include the coating of paint on the wire cage in the video. It seems to be an older model, and nothing we've seen in stores or online compares to the thickness of those bars/wires.
However, our dog is still slowly bending the bars, licking at them, causing the locking mechanism and many of the bars and welds to begin to deteriorate due to rust and fatigue. A segment or two of the bars have already been wrenched off. We've come home to seeing pools of drool around the door of the cage where he's been licking and gnawing at the bars, rust stains on his snout and paws, sometimes a scrape or two from the effort he's put in. He's determined, no doubt, but it's heartbreaking seeing him like that. Honestly at this point I'm contemplating how hard it would be to make our own cage with perhaps not rebar, but maybe using it as the outside edges and using 1/4-inch metal rods in between. I'd at least feel comfortable leaving him in there and knowing he couldn't escape in at least 10 years of rust buildup and metal fatigue.
We love the crap out of this boy, take good care of him, but separation anxiety is almost literally the only thing we haven't yet been able to train out of him. We think it's a product of the years before we adopted him, he had been passed around to at least three different homes that we know of (and who knows how they treated him). He likely thinks we're going to forget about him, even though we have, without fail, come back home every time.
I have a pitbull who has separation anxiety and he's be destroying his crate as well. Also probably from the past. I was wondering what you did to help with that or what you ended up doing? Looking for any help here
My pit mix escaped from this very crate last night. He broke two spot welds at the bottom amd bent the piece below the door up enough to get out. He cut his face up pretty good while he was at it. He's a rescue who was kenneled for almost two years. He loves his crate and sleeps in it, but he doesn't like it when I leave. This kennel is a no-go for my guy, unfortunately.
My Malinois has started to move her cage completely, like still inside of it and moving it towards the front door when I leave an its a BIG issue cause I live in an apartment complex, my floors are true wood and she has bent the bars by chewing them. I have put toys and bones as “enrichment “ in their with her to see if it would help and it worked for maybe 2-3 days and she started again.
It sucks at Walmart doesn't have good expensive but not expensive kennels that dogs can't break out of so we have to reinforce them come on...
My dog is not bending the bars but has pushed at the top where the wire brakes away.
Thank you!
I stopped as soon as I saw the zip ties 😂 Doesn’t work for my Staffy Mix. I used industrial padlocks and he broke the wires at the bottom. End of the day if you have a STRONG breed invest in a heavy duty crate.
Not sure if they make a heavy duty crate as strong as he is.
He's broken out of every steel gate we bought..right through it..bending bars like Hercules.
That's in the kitchen and I'm just n the living room some 40ft away.
My dog chewed up the zip ties off. I’m trying to figure out something else
Same! He also chewed the rope! Oh and I had those thick thick zip ties!
Get rid of the dog
Yes..he chewed thru each zip tie, bend all the bars and literally chewed thru them a 3x3 spot that he miraculously squirmed out of..all 92lbs with a big butt.
@@Steiny5843I'm seriously thinking at this point..I can't be captive in my home so he feels safe. He had the whole kitchen..no. A huge crate 3x his size ...no.
Leg him loose to walk around ( I'm in the house... a small house...some 40ft away...and he's still not happy, looking to destroy anything, finding things to destroy..or peeing on the wooden floors.
At 4 I believed he'd outgrow this, he's actually gotten way worse.
@@sicilyny5375 you should try getting your dog on Prozac.
Worked wonders for us and anyone who had similar issues.
Where can that heavy duty crate at the end of the video be purchased? Its 2023 and just came across this video. Wire crates today are made so cheap, if your dog has any desire to get out they most likely will be able to. I've done the whole zip tie/clips around all the edges and dogs have just pulled the wire cage itself apart and got out. The dog I need to crate is crate trained and has no issues being in the crate, its only when I'm gone for more than a couple hours she gets bored and would rather be sleeping on the couch. Plastic crates are useless, a few pounces against the door (by an 80lb dog) and the "lock" assembly (middle dial with one bar up/one bar down) just pops right out of place.
what about binder clips for the door?
Binder clips for paper? Nah. It only takes a couple pounds of force to pop them off unfortunately.
My dog chewed the plastic at the bottom smh