[Zeus08]

Originally Posted by harleyyorkie

yes, there's a potty pad in the crate. I tried it with no pad, an old towel, a nice fleece bed,smaller crate, etc. Still he peed& pooped.
I am happy to report a little progess now. I put some "jingle" bells on his collar and put his crate right next to the bed. Whenever I heard him jingle, I woke up. Once I caught him in the act(3:40 am) and verbally scolded him and took him outside to finish. The next night @ 3 am, I heard him jingle and out we went. Sucess with both pee & poo, and a dry crate until 6 am when he woke up again. Last night when I heard him jingle several times, he was just changing positions or had an itch. I didn't take him out and his crate stayed clean from the time he went to bed (11pm until 6 am when we got up). So, maybe we're getting through to him finally. He isn't holding it while we're outside as long as he used to either.

Congratulations! Sounds like he is heading in the right direction. I was reading this entire post and was feeling your pain. The bells on the collar was a great idea. Hang in there!