Crate training can take a very long time especially with a very young puppy. The puppy does not start to develop the physical ability to control bowels and bladder function until sometime around the 16the week of life. Until that point it is pretty much your timing that has to be right. If you miss getting him out on time all you are doing is teaching him that peeing in the crate is OK and that is a very hard thing to train out of them.
Your breeder sold you a pup that was too young to control it's bodily functions. Now you have to be on 24 hour duty.
Using puppy pads is a much easier process with very young pups. Usually a good breeder has their pups on puppy pads as soon as they are old enough to start walking around. As they grow they know the scent of the pad means potty (the pad has a hormone scent on it that causes them to have to potty) You just have to keep your young pup near the pad at all times until they are old enough to hold it until they get back to the pad.
I trained Gracie like this and then when she was older taught her to potty outside but we keep the pads handy for when we are going to be away for a while and for when the weather is bad.
It isn't fair to expect an infant pup to learn something that it is incapable of doing. |