[puppy_Love08]

Just a little background for those who have not read the other threads: Logan is 9 months old. We've had him for 6 months. We were crate training him, but he kept waking me up in the middle of the night, at least once or twice, to go outside. I was not getting any sleep. We thought about rehoming him (for several reasons) but changed our minds last weekend. We decided to put him in our tiny laundry room with a pee pad at night. For three nights, the floor AND pee pad stayed dry. He slept through the night. I thought we were home free.

Then the past two nights he started peeing on the floor several times at night (he did not have any water in the room) instead of the pee pad AND he has started barking in the middle of the night. Last night, he was up barking at 1 a.m. and again around 5 a.m. Both times I went to check on him, he had peed on the floor. There is not enough room in the laundry room to put down another pee pad without blocking the entrance to the laundry room, which would make it impossible for someone to step into the laundry room without walking on the pee pad.

So now Logan is not only peeing on the floor but he's barking constantly when he's in the room and now in the middle of the night. I have tried ignoring him as the advice said to do. I tried putting some of his urine on the pee pad, but he still peed on the floor.

I am going out of town in two days and taking him with me. I cannot put other families through this each night! I don't know what to do. I'm about to call the breeder to see if he wants Logan back. In the meantime, Logan is on medication for possible liver shunt, including an antibiotic. This is just too overwhelming for us right now, especially with all that is going on in our lives (helping my aging in-laws with a move, two kids in college, etc.).