Bella likes her crate, and we have only been doing it a week, well, I should say she likes it when the door is open, and she can come and go when she wants. We had to begin late, she is 7 months old, and had never been crated, we had been using a baby gate to confine her when we had to leave her alone, but she was chewing my baseboards and door frames so we had to get a cage for her. Its the wire dog cage, and I have a blanket over it so if it hits the wall it wont leave marks on it, plus for more of a den feeling for her. I put her bed in it, and some of her toys, and I opened the front and side door and laid down beside it, and she went right in to investigate, I let her sniff, and look around and go in and out as much as she wanted, and then when she laid down in it I stayed with her for a bit, and got up and she stayed in it. We got it on a Monday night and I did not confine her to it until that Wednesday when I had to leave for a physical therapy appointment, and I was gone for a couple hrs., and the little stinker had gotten out of it! Its possible I didnt latch the door properly, or its possible she figured out how to get out, Im not sure, but she still does not like when she is closed in it and I leave. But she loves to lay in it when I am home. Im not sure what to suggest, all I did was encourage her to go in, with her bed and toys and she did, she now thinks of it as her place. She will let Nexus go in with her too.