[TheTrinks]

Hi everyone... my wife and I adopted 6 year-old Sprinkle about a month ago. Although she is opening up in SO many ways, she still does not seem to understand that she shouldn't go in her crate.

She was doing great for about a week... no pee or poop in the crate. And then this last week, she has peed every single day in the crate and pooped most days (including this morning). My wife and I are both in the Army, so we are up early. We take her out every morning about the same time, again when we get home for a long walk, then before food at 7:30pm and then again before bed. She has PLENTY of time to go out and do her business, but she just seems to wait until she's in her crate.

Also... she had bad anxiety when we first tried crate training. We thought we had trained her through this, and she was not barking in a panic while we are gone... but, we were VERY wrong! I video-taped her today while we were gone for about 3 hours. She was quiet for about 30 mins and then barked non-stop for the rest.

Any suggestions with both of these?!? Kinda at a loss and getting very frustrated.