[hmartelly]

My Wife and I just bought our Yorkshire Terrier about 1-2 months ago. We love everything about him! Except for the fact that he pees in his crate while we are at work.

This literally causes us to have to bathe him EVERY NIGHT! He is really good at waiting until the following morning to go out, but we just can't get him to wait till we get home from work to go.

We've just recently started the crate training process, so that may have something to do with it. He hasn't gotten to the point where he is comfortable to go in by himself yet -but we are working on it.

We started stuffing items in his crate to limit the amount of space he has to move around. The limitations only allowed him to stand/sit/turn around and lay down. However he continues to re-leave himself in the kennel.

Last week he was pooing and peeing, up until we limited the amount of space he had. This week he is only peeing -No, he doesn't have an infection/disease etc.

We are starting to get frustrated with the whole idea of "crate training". He is able to hold it till we take him out the next morning -granted we take his water away at 9pm, and take him out that night before bed. After taking him out in the morning, we let him roam around the apartment for an hour to eat and drink, before we put him in his crate and leave for work for the day.

Should we take him out yet again prior to leaving for work in the morning?

Please advise!