[bfforever]

Frankie doesn't go anywhere in the house but on his pads--he didn't miss even at 12 weeks, but here is the weird part...I have a larger crate, so there is a sherpa rug, water dish and pee pad in there. I never intended the crate to be used to house break him, but to keep him safe when I was out. When he's not locked in there, that's where he goes--on the pad in his crate. I always leave the door open and he uses it like a bathroom.

Here's the more strange part. When I put him in there when I leave the house, I had to put a pee pad by the crate door. It appears that he doesn't want to soil the crate when he has to be in there, so he wizzes out the door onto the pad "outside" the crate.

He NEVER goes anywhere else, and it's what he does, so I'm sticking to it. Strange--reverse crate training, using it like a bathroom.