Not defending here, but sometimes dogs poop in crates, even at dog shows. I can assure you that at Westminster yesterday and today, some dogs pooped in their crates and these are the best of the best and pampered show dogs. It happens. It doesn’t always mean they are afraid, sometimes it’s nerves, sometimes they just get excited and sometimes they just have to go. One of mine did it in the crate that was inside the car on the way to the vet. She wasn’t afraid or particularly excited, she just needed to go, so that part, to me, really isn’t that relevant. I would have been terrified the crate would fall off the car and that my dogs would have been afraid of the speed and being alone.
I DESPISE the Westminister Dog Show. Those dogs owners make Mitt look like THE best dog owner ever. I used to work X the street from Madison Square Garden. The boxing fans were better and classier, and more civil, than those dog owners.
Once, during the dog show, I happened into the former Gimbels Dept Store. They had a mannequin in couture, with a VERY expensive dress. It had to be changed because one of the dog owners let its little charge pee on the dress! Ask any sales clerk from any store in the vicinity of Madison Square Garden how much they just looooooooooove the dog show. The animals are on the wrong end of the leash.
He didn’t “poop in his crate” he had a severe case of the squirts, so bad it rad down the back of the car and the kids were saying “ewwww gross”. Mitt then stopped the car, hosed down both car and dog and drove off.