I have had Bailey for 3 weeks now and he is almost 9 weeks. I first started putting him in his crate with the door open with a wee wee pad right outside of it. he cried most of the night and did his business wherever he wanted to.
in my last post i said how great my nights sleep was with no accidents and a full night of sleeping in his crate. it was great since the night before i think i got about 2 hours of sleep.
sunday i bought the excercise pen from Petco. after putting him in his crate he slept till about 4:30 and then started wimpering. i brought him to the pen and tried to get him to go potty. my problem is when he wakes up he wants to play only and forgets all about his poor bladder. so i left him in his pen for the rest of the night. he cuddeled up to a pillow i left in there for him and went right to sleep after he did his business.
is this the wrong thing to do? leaving him in his pen or should i wait till he eventually pottys then put him back in his crate? i just figure that if he does what he needs to do and is quiet why do something different.
so far the crate and pen are a godsend |