M-PETS Flow Soft Folding Dog Crate - XL

M-PETS Flow Soft Folding Dog Crate is the soft-sided crate in the M-PETS range: a steel frame with fabric and mesh over it, which folds flat when you have finished with it.

Key Features

• Steel frame with fabric sides, so it is a fraction of the weight of a wire crate of the same size
• Mesh panels all round for air and for a view out
• Roll-down blinds over the mesh, which is the part that settles a nervous animal
• Zipped side pocket and a detachable storage bag for the things that otherwise end up loose in the boot
• Collapses flat for storing or carrying
• Five sizes in this listing: XS, M, L, XL and XXL. There is a sixth, the Flow Crate Magnum, listed on its own

Good To Know

• Buy the crate by the dog, not by the puppy. It should stand up without ducking, turn round without touching the sides and lie out flat. A crate a dog cannot stand up in is the wrong crate, whatever else it has going for it.
• A crate is a bed, not a punishment. Feed in it, leave the door open for the first week and never shut a dog in one to deal with bad behaviour - that is how a dog learns to fight the door.
• Fabric is for a settled dog. A puppy that chews, scratches or digs will be through a mesh panel in an afternoon, and a dog that panics in a crate needs wire rather than this.
• A carrier on a car seat goes behind a seatbelt through the handle or the strap slots, not loose in the footwell. An unsecured carrier is a projectile in a stop.