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Originally Posted by Gracie2006  I have always had Gracie and then Holly in an ex-pen during the day when I am at work. They each have crates inside the pen. Pee pads, food and toys are in there as well. |
I'm doing the same thing. I just adopted my baby Bentley on Saturday and he's 9 weeks old. I decided to have his crate inside a smallish area with a pen fence thingy (not xpen though) around his area so he has play room and his weewee pads in there. So far it's working wonderfully and it's only been 3 days!
He didn't necessarily like the 'bed' we bought for him so for the first 2 days he was sleeping on the blanket we had covering the sides of the crate. I then realized that if I put the blanket inside the crate he would probably sleep in there. But I had to slowly make the crate an interesting place to be in... I put his water bottle in the back of the crate so he would have to walk into the crate to drink. Worked!
Then I started putting a few toys in there and putting a little of that puppy booster syrup stuff on some of the toys in there and ever since then he's been fine being in there anytime he is sleeping.
We leave the crate door open since he is in an enclosed area as it is.
Today was the breakthrough with him pooping on the pads, he would only pee on them and poop right next to it... Weird.
OH I had to buy that spray that you spray on the area that is OK to go potty. That definitely works. The puppy pads that have that 'pheramones' and whatever to tell the puppy to go there just didn't do it for him.
I hope this post helped. Much luck you and your baby!
Brittany and Bentley
