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Originally Posted by theallyeezy  My pup is 11 weeks old and I'm not sure if I can start putting him on the schedule yet. I'm not sure if he can hold his pee for 8 hours that I'll be gone since I'm working. No one's going to be home with him while I'm gone so I'm very anxious about leaving him in the crate. I tried leaving him before (although it might be my fault) and peed and pooped in there. So now I am kind of scared to leave him. At night he lets me know that he needs to pee by crying at night. He's peeing more in the pad than outside. He rarely goes outside to poop too. He pees just a little. We take him outside to try to teach him how to potty there, but even if we stayed outside for about half an hour, he still won't go.
I'm so frustrated with potty training right now. His crying and this potty training.  HELP! |
Potty training is a process, it is going to take a while. My advise is to try to let go of your frustration, as they can pick up on it and it will only make the process more difficult.
With a puppy, you lose sleep for awhile, its a fact and once you get through those first few weeks, months.. you forget how much sleep you lost, lol
As far as the crate, I would not leave a pup in a crate for 8 hrs and expect him not to relieve himself.. A general rule of thumb is they can hold their bladder for approx same amount of hours as is their age in months. For ex: a two month old can expect to hold it two hours, etc. An expen, with peepads on one side, and crate/or bed and water/ food on the other side is your best bet.