I sure do appreciate the responses, I'm at my wit's end trying to figure Bandit out. He gets plenty of excersise running around the backyard chasing my others & all. He seems to go against everything I've ever read about how puppies need to go RIGHT AFTER they eat. Bandit will eat last meal @ 4 pm ( I tried some of poster's suggestions) and he will not do anything until after 11 pm when we are sleeping and he is in his crate. That's a long time before he goes. He doesn't make any noise that he has to go out. I just wake up to a crate full of poop every morning @ 7 am. I have had him 2 full weeks and I can count on one hand the times he's pooped outside! When he does go outside I praise him & treat him for it. You'd think he would grasp the concept by now, wouldn't you? It also doesn't seem to matter to him if he soils his crate, or bed. Should I take his bed out, I'm having to wash it daily, just let him sleep on the puppy pad in his crate?
The weird thing is the other puppy I got when I got Bandit is 3 weeks younger than him and does very well at holding both pee & poo while in his crate. Peanut is a tiny yorkie and has to eat 3 times a day. Peanut's last meal is at 9:30 pm and he will holds it until morning. I really have never had this problem with any of the others, it's driving me nuts! Keep the suggestions coming, I'm trying everything I read here.