Just hang in there.....it takes some time to adjust! The main thing is to make it a nice/fun place and never make her feel she is going in there as punishment. I used the Kong and filled it with peanut butter. When Fiona needed to go in there for me to go to work she associated getting a Kong with it and she would about knock me down to run and get in her kennel. After a while we just left the door open on it and would find her in there if she was tired or wanted to get away.....