Learning from your pet.

I am a fairy new pet owner.  My family recently adopted a puppy.  He is a black lab mix.  What he is mixed with we have no idea.  We do however have some guesses.  I'm thinking that he has a little bit of collie in him.  He has a solid white patch on his chest.  I have never owned a dog before. We had the hardest time coming up with a name for him. we had all sorts of people giving us advice on what we should call him.  after going through about 20 different names we settled on Hopper.  Now hopper is a very active puppy.  The first two weeks that we had him we put him in a kennel while we were away from home.  Hopper did not like the kennel he would whine and cry, and be covered in drool by the time we returned, Mind you getting  hopper in the kennel was in no way easy.  he would dig his nails in the carpet and refuse to move.  we had t result to trying to trick him in there with treats.  he would run in and get the treats and run back out before you could close the door.   No matter how long we were gone he would be in the same condition. whiny and wet. Feeling absolutely horrible we decided to try and let him out in our fully fenced in backyard.  It worked we would return to happy tail wagging puppy!!  :)