Hi,
my little boy was trodden on and broke his ulna and radius. He's had surgery, had a plate pinned in and is wearing a splint for another week. For the entire period (4 weeks total), he has to be crated with less than 70 minutes total short leash slow walking a day.
The major problem is, he was being eased into crate training and was good for 30 minutes or so. He is now being put in there for most of the day and he hates it. He chews on the bars and hurts his teeth, we've tried preventing this by lining it with aviary mesh, but despite me saying "we're over engineering it!", he's ripping it down faster than we can repair it…
Does anyone have any suggestions? We're trying to mentally entertain him, but he just doesn't want to pay attention, all he wants to do is run (good that he's not in pain anymore, but it's so hard containing him). We give him kongs, pigs ears, bones, we wrestle with him lightly on the bed and take him to pee hourly. He still whinges and self harms...