If you are going to be gone all day at work, I would highly recommend an xpen instead of a crate to keep her in. You could actually hook both together (see a thread very close to this one about Crates hooked to Xpens). Addie will be too young (even if she's the recommended 12 weeks) to hold her pee and poo all day. You don't want her "going" in her crate. In an xpen, you can have her food, water, toys, pee pads and a bed..or again, hook the xpen to a crate and have her bed in that.
That pic of Addie is adorable!!
I felt worried when I brought Mandie home, too. Shelby had free reign of the house and I thought the 2 would play off of each other and make Mandie feel worse. It didn't. She whined at first when being put up (she had her own bedroom lol). However, that quickly subsided. Really, when we humans leave..the pups mostly sleep all day
