[MyFairLacy]

By teaching your dog to eliminate in the crate, you're defeating the purpose of crate training. Dogs naturally do not want to eliminate in their "den". That's why crate training works. You have a crate big enough for the dog to stand up, turn around in, and to stretch out some. You put a bed in there and that's it - no food, no water, no pee pads. You DO NOT want the dog going to the bathroom at all in the crate. The puppy (being this young) needs to be taken out every few hours to potty, not left to potty in its crate. Even by dividing a separate potty spot, you're still teaching the dog to go in it's "den". The little divider doesn't separate it's waste much from the bed.

Also, I don't know where you got your puppy from but if it happened to be from a petstore or a breeder than kept the puppy in a kennel most of the time, he is probably used to going to the bathroom in his "den" and will be very difficult to potty train because that's what he is used to. In that situation a crate doesn't usually work well.