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Originally Posted by IndianaJ  Thanks for the reply... I think you may have misunderstood...sorry for being confusing...He is currently in a crate that small...He actually has an x-small wire crate, and also one of the x-small plastic petmate vari kennels as well. I actually only tried him in a Large dog crate with a pet a potty hoping that he would go on the pet a potty instead of peeing/pooping all over himself... I couldn't get him to stay on it to potty though....maybe if I tried something with sides? I was hoping that if he had a place to go in his crate, that would solve my problem...but he ended up sleeping on the pet a potty and going in the crate...After I saw that didn't work, I switched him back to his x-small crate,which he's had since I've had him. He has just enough room to stand up, turn around and lay down, but nothing else so, I can't go any smaller...it's already the smallest size I can get! lol he will actually go potty and then just sit in it. But if he's at home, he'll go to the door to go outside. It's so frustrating! I guess I'm just thankful it's not reversed. I got him from a breeder in Indiana, so he wasn't a pet store dog...to my knowledge he was left in his crate as the breeder seemed pretty reputable. Should I try a dog litter box with pee pads in a large crate and also put a bed in there, too and see if that makes a difference? I am hoping that maybe if I can contain him in a large crate, but give him somewhere to go, i'll just be changing a pad out every day instead of washing a dog and cleaning a crate...Do you think I could easily train him to that? Thanks for the help! |
This you probably don't want to hear, but I'd say he's "crate trained" - crate trained to potty there instead of announcing he needs out to go. I would think it would be very hard to untrain him of that.
My dogs sleep in crates at night, so it's their beds, if they need out to go potty - or goof off around the house, which is usually the case -- they wimper to get out and I let them out. The crates are next to the bed so all I have to do (half asleep) is lift the lid and out they come ---so is he being left in there too long? No one hearing him when he needs out? Is having him in a crate really all that important? Maybe not use a crate at all since that's where he thinks he's suppose to potty. If your house is puppy proofed let him sleep where he wants, foregoing the crate altogether. Or close off the bedroom door and lay a potty pad down by the door and if he'll use a potty pad, if he's free to roam (at least in one room) he'll probably use it and then go back to sleep. IDK, just some thoughts...I know if my dog continued to make a mess in a crate I wouldn't be putting her back into it. The old saying, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different response probably isn't going to happen.