When I crated Loki and he had to go potty he would cry or whine loud enough where I would wake up (like in the middle of the night) and we would go out.
If you already have one that is house trained and you have someone home for most of the day I would definitely take her out every hour when possible, confine her to the crate during naps and take her out immediately after. Probably what will happen is that if your dad can play with her and wear her out, she will nap when your dad naps. Get a crate that is small enough so that she does not have accidents. Don't put a pad in the crate, since that defeats the purpose of crate training. If you decide to use pads use them in a pen instead. I don't think you will need them. Any accidents she has from being so small will probably stop once she is around 4-5 months old and it would take more effort to pad train her in that time and confuse her. You can't just put pads in the pen and expect them to just use them, you have to actively watch them and reward them and actually train them to use the pads. Since you already have one trained to go outside I would just stay consistent with that.
My two ring a bell to go outside - maybe you could try that so that when she is older and has more freedom she can ring the bell to wake your dad up when she needs to go out? |