[viviansnickers]

Your pup more than likely has separation anxiety. Those pups who suffer from it associate their crate with you leaving which in turn causes them to poop and pee due to the anxiety. My Snickers went through this and is recovering from his 2nd bout of it. I teach and am home in the summers, and Snick started peeing in the house again after I went back to work in Sept.

You will have to try a few different things to figure out what will work for your dog. Your pup seems to really hate his crate, so you have to confine him in something that does not seem to be crate like to him. We ended up using a Graco PackNPlay meant for human babies and Snickers loves it!! We also keep it next to a window so while he is confined, the window provides large spatial views. The PackNPlay has mesh sides, nothing metal or crate like, the entire top is open, again not confining. We put Snicks fav plush blanket and toys and made it cozy and now he wants to go in even when we are home, he loves it so much!!

I hope this helps for some possible insight to your ongoing problem. I remember my husband telling me he can no longer clean up Snicks crate. I knew we had to fix it, and we did!!

Good luck!!!
Snick & Viv