The Side of Structure in Dog Training

Predictability on the inside gives us a feeling of comfort because predictability creates conditioned emotional responses to certain expectations. So every day your dog goes to bed at eight o'clock in the evening, no matter what, into the crate and this is bedtime. The animal's inside feels that calm stimulation has been removed. Over time that habit bleeds into the crate itself. Now when the dog was in the crate, they actually calmed down from the inside. Not necessarily because you trained it, but because you conditioned it via patterns.