Our past beloved Keally was a devil when she was a puppy. We tried to crate train her and she would potty all over in her crate. She also would scream non stop that it actually upset her to a point of dehydration. The point was she did not like a crate and that was it. I did lots of washing too but we decided to puppy safe the kitchen and let her run around. She hated dog beds you would come home to a bed shredded with pee and poop on it. We then just gave her a blanket. We had her pee pad trained and she always went to her paper to go potty. After awhile she could run the house and she always slept with us.Keally came from a breeder who did not socialize her and sold her to us at 8 weeks old. Sure she did some naughty stuff but we used patience and love. To find out she had separation anxiety so we had to deal with that with patience and again lots of love. My point is some dogs will not stay in a crate and that is it. If they don't like it they can hurt themselves and tear their paws up. As others said try the kitchen or bathroom and I think that will work out for you. We have a new baby today and she is good about a crate and we bought her from a very good breeder. Poor Keally did not get that good breeder chance. All these babies have little minds of their own and it all takes time. If we had to do it over again with separation anxiety with Keally we would take her back in a heartbeat to meet our dear Kinder. Hope this works out for you. |