Quoted from bob_e:Jackass loves the special attention he is getting. He will go into the crate at bedtime on his own.
Reminded me of Buddy, the yellow lab I got when he was a 6-pound puppy, that grew up to be 120 pounds.
I crate trained him early, and bought the biggest crate I could find, my friends said he had his own castle.
Buddy was outside all day, my entire yard is fenced in, and a pretty big yard, but every night, he came in, and he would go straight to the crate.
Sometimes I wanted to hang out with him out of the crate, but he just really wanted to get in the crate, he always loved being in it.
One time there was a threat of very severe weather here, so I didn't lock the crate door, just in case.
Buddy accidentally opened the door, and he freaked out, and looked at me like will you please shut the door back, like it is supposed to be.
Buddy loved to chase squirrels, and one time he actually caught one, and he pranced around for an hour, before I could get him to release it.
The squirrel was fine, it stopped playing dead and ran off the minute he let go of it.
Anyway, what you said about he will go into the crate on his own at bedtime totally reminded me of Buddy, because after being out in the yard all day, when I let him in, he always ran straight into his crate.
His crate faced the tv, and Buddy really liked the Marley and Me movie. Who knows, may have been his cousin or something in the movie.