Are crate-trained dogs more likely to be otherwise well-trained?
I recently opened my calendar up again after having it closed for several years while we moved houses, and my first (current) sit is kind of a disaster due to a "very well-trained" dog that is anything but. I'm considering requiring crate training to see if it might be a proxy for likely at-least-reasonable training in other areas. Do you think more people crate train because the dog is destructive if left alone, or do you think most crate trained dogs are just probably well-trained in other ways too?