If your crate is one of those airport crates with the more solid sides? Just take the door off and make it comfy. Put it where he feels safe (by the bed) -- he'll use it.
You can try feeding him in his crate to get him used to the idea.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Jun 29, 2005 5:28:11 pm PDT #5745 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Jun 29, 2005 5:30:06 pm PDT #5746 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My first regular babysitting job is a senior in high school. I started babysitting her when she was 6 weeks old.
Pish. Mine's out of college.
-t - Jun 29, 2005 5:34:04 pm PDT #5747 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No crate. As much as he likes being under furniture, he hates crates. He developed a fear of ladders and metal gates because they are reminiscent of the hated crate.
JZ - Jun 29, 2005 5:34:13 pm PDT #5748 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Pish. Mine's out of college.
What.Ev, Miss Spring Chicken. Mine has a college degree and a failed marriage under his belt, both at least for years ago.
Also, get offa my lawn.
sarameg - Jun 29, 2005 5:34:48 pm PDT #5749 of 10001
I wasn't allowed to babysit until I was 13.
Some of the older kids...well, one is a forensic anthropologist. Her older sister is a pediatric dentist. Then there is the married artist whose work hangs on my walls.
starts rooting under the bed
Lee - Jun 29, 2005 5:35:24 pm PDT #5750 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
One day, you'll experience the yum that is Zankou, young jedi.
Unless you are me, and never made it there.
Also, AURELIA TOTALLY ROCKS AND WILL BE MY FAVORITE FOR EVER AND EVER.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2005 5:36:46 pm PDT #5751 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What.Ev, Miss Spring Chicken. Mine has a college degree and a failed marriage under his belt, both at least for years ago.
Damn, you're old!
(tee hee!)
I actually don't mind being as old as I am, honestly.
Trudy Booth - Jun 29, 2005 5:39:36 pm PDT #5752 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
t, I feel slightly evil for laughing at your dog
My friend's dog used to get trapped behind the couch. So. Damn. Funny. Morgan would climb up to the top, fall over the back, and get trapped in the corner.
Kat - Jun 29, 2005 5:41:39 pm PDT #5753 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
AURELIA TOTALLY ROCKS AND WILL BE MY FAVORITE FOR EVER AND EVER.
no longer the nicest.
-t - Jun 29, 2005 5:42:29 pm PDT #5754 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
He totally deserves it, Trudy.
I think the cats lure him under there with promises of steak and then laugh at him when he can't get out.
I don't know what happened to anyone I used to babysit.