[skelaki]

Crate training is great and once you have crate trained dogs you will never be without crates, but expect it to take some time since you'll be crate training adult dogs.

A couple suggestions: (1) make picking up all the toys into a before bedtime game with your daughter, and (2) install a baby gate across her room door way. That way you can block off the dogs' access but your daughter's door can still remain open.

[puppylove44]

Originally Posted by puppylove44

and even though she (my daughter) picks up her toys every evening, the dogs can still find a way in and chew up dolls and bouncy balls...Id rather not spend thousands at the vet to have Malibu Barbies head removed from my dogs tummy. Sorry. We''ve tried doggy gates to keep them out of her room but if youve ever owned a boxer then you know that they can jump vertically extremely high...He clears it with no problem.

Boxers CAN jump really high, so even though we have a baby gate, its no obstical for him!!! He'll go into my daughters room in the middle of the night and lick her face until she wakes up(such love! He adores her!) and then we're in for a LONG night...LOL. He's very crafty and finds his way up to the top of the dresser and also her stuffed animals on the bed...lol we wake up and her poor teddy bear has been disembowled....Now thats trauma for a 4year old!!LOL.