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Originally Posted by MarnieBlue  Very helpful Madra!! Thanks so much. So when he first came home and slept in crate and held on all night to have a pee in morning, how come he now pees on pads through the night? I might have misunderstood? So the plan is to keep her in a crate in our room and if she needs to pee in the night, will she let us know so we can take her outside? And through the day I'll pop her crate in a playpen in the living room with pee pads etc x |
Initially we didn't have the playpen and we were using our old hard sided cat carrier as his crate. No room for him to have a pee spot in there which was the intention. In the morning he started whimpering and making high pitched barks and he was taken straight out for a walk. No opportunity to have an 'accident' inside. Now that we have the playpen, we use a slightly bigger carrier (he grew a lot in a month!) and inside the pen we have the pee pad, he sleeps in his crate and has 24 hour access to food and water. The pee pad has bought us about an extra hour of sleep in the morning :> In my online research, it seems they are able to hold it for as many hours as they are months, plus one. So a 4 month old pup should be able to hold it for 5 hours. I'd try that as a gauge for when to pay attention to his crate noises maybe? Bear in mind I'm speaking from a grand 7 weeks of experience here
During the day when we're at work, he's alone for anywhere from 3 hours to 5 hours. During this time he's in the pen. Sometimes he uses the pad, lately he hasn't been as much, and goes straight for a walk with whoever gets home first. The goal is to have him completely trained to 'go' outside, and we're hoping to have that solidly imprinted before the snow flies
The pee pad is more like the 'emergency I gotta gooo!' spot. I hope.