Dog cage

wendywitch

I just want to check with others before I try taking this back.

I brought a large dog cage (the size for a boxer etc size dog) for my staff. last month from pets at home, I asked the woman in the store how long it was guaranteed for and she said a year.
One month on and he's killed it. The plastic tray in the base lasted about 2 weeks before he snapped it in half.
Now he's chewed the metal bars at the bottom of the door so badly that the weld keeping it together has broken!! :eek:

Surely a metal cage made for a large dog should be stronger than that and last longer??

Will I be able to take it back??

Mrs_pbradley936

I would put this on the pets board you will get more response.

urbancookie1

How long does your dog spend in the cage to be able to do that?

Soubrette

wendywitch wrote: »

I just want to check with others before I try taking this back.

I brought a large dog cage (the size for a boxer etc size dog) for my staff. last month from pets at home, I asked the woman in the store how long it was guaranteed for and she said a year.
One month on and he's killed it. The plastic tray in the base lasted about 2 weeks before he snapped it in half.
Now he's chewed the metal bars at the bottom of the door so badly that the weld keeping it together has broken!! :eek:

Surely a metal cage made for a large dog should be stronger than that and last longer??

Will I be able to take it back??

I am no consumer expert and I agree with Mrs pb - try the pet section and someone may be able to help you more definitively.

However I doubt you have much of a case, a crate is supposed to be a safe place for the dog not an enclosure to hold a destructive one.

I could be wrong though.

Good luck

Sou

wendywitch

urbancookie1 wrote: »

How long does your dog spend in the cage to be able to do that?

When he did the tray he was in there approximately 15 minutes while I walked my daughter to school.
The metal on the door I was gone less that an hour.

I shall also post on the pet section as suggested.

z1985m

urbancookie1 wrote: »

How long does your dog spend in the cage to be able to do that?

doesn't take long for some dogs (especially puppy age) to destroy everything in sight!

Tozer

wendywitch wrote: »

I brought a large dog cage (the size for a boxer etc size dog) for my staff.

Outrageous. You should show your employees respect. Whilst times may be hard, caging them is outrageous.....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

border_collie

Is your dog crate trained? Or have you just shoved him in there and gone out?

hollydays

I think a guarentee might be for faults etc,but I don't think it can be for being destruction proof.I guess you may have suspected this might be possible because you asked the employee the question in the first place.

WolfSong2000

hollydays wrote: »

I think a guarentee might be for faults etc,but I don't think it can be for being destruction proof.I guess you may have suspected this might be possible because you asked the employee the question in the first place.

I think hollydays is right...did you crate train your dog before you left him alone? Also, there's very little (if anything) that a determined Staffie can't destroy, so I'm not sure how much of a case you'll have, but good luck with it, and maybe try and get some training for your dog to help deal with what looks like separation anxiety

wendywitch

z1985m wrote: »

doesn't take long for some dogs (especially puppy age) to destroy everything in sight!

Is your dog crate trained? Or have you just shoved him in there and gone out?

Max is 5 years old and I've had him since he was 11 months.
We have never had any problems with him (except for his dislike of other dogs) until we lost Winston our smooth collie (yes both dogs got on fine) at the end of February.
Max has obviously been very upset and started to damage the door and door frame of our kitchen when ever we go out. As I live in housing association house I obviously need to keep the property in good order and can't have him destroying the house!
I thought the safest option would be to get a cage.
He was fine for the first couple of weeks, he went in it fine when we were in and if we went out. We gave him lots of praise and treats, he was even taking treats in there to eat!!
He is always fine when he has to stay at the vets and they never have a problem with him, he is epileptic so has had to stay there quite a few times. He also got run over in 2007 and had to spend a long time in then and the week before Christmas 2008 he was attacked by my neighbours two staff's and was terribly injured and had to stay in then.

The only off site advise I've been given is to get another dog to keep him company