Dog Crate

What a Crate Is For

A crate is a den, not a punishment and not storage. Used properly it gives a dog somewhere it chooses to go, makes toilet training far faster because a dog will not usually soil where it sleeps, and means travel and vet stays are familiar rather than frightening. Used badly, as a place a dog is shut when it is inconvenient, it does the opposite.

What We Stock

Indoor dog house with toilet and tray

From around $55.99. Suits small breeds and apartments, with a separate toileting area for dogs left during a working day.

Heavy duty crate with divider and four doors

Around $497.99. The divider is the useful part: you buy the crate for the adult size and reduce the space while the dog is a puppy, so it never has room to sleep at one end and toilet at the other.

XXL heavy duty crate with wheels and tray

From around $381.99. Large breed sizing, and the wheels matter more than they sound once the crate is loaded.

Heavy duty kennel with roof and playpen

From around $1,159.99. An outdoor run with a covered section, for working dogs and breeding facilities rather than living rooms.

Sizing It

The dog should stand without ducking, turn around, and lie fully stretched out. Bigger is not better for toilet training, which is why the divider exists. Measure from nose to base of tail and add around ten centimetres, then measure the height at the shoulder with the dog sitting.

Introducing It Properly

Door open, food inside, no shutting anything for the first few days. Feed every meal in there. Then close the door for seconds while the dog eats, and build from there. Rushing this is the reason so many crates end up unused in a shed.

Rules Worth Keeping

Never use it as a punishment. Do not leave a puppy crated longer than it can physically hold on, roughly its age in months plus one, in hours. Remove collars and tags before the door closes, since tags catch on bars.

Trusted by RPBA Breeders

Members start crate familiarity in the litter, so a puppy arriving at its new home already treats an enclosed space as normal.