I know this topic has been beat to death, but I will pass on what worked for me. I have 2 kennels, a small plastic one, and a larger wire one. I tried to just use the wire one in the beginning, but my pup would just pee all over it and sleep in a dry spot, so I tried the smaller kennel and I left the door open so she had access the pee pad that was on the floor in the usual place that she was used to it being. In the morning I found pee spots on the floor, but not on the pad or in the kennel, so I tried putting the smaller crate in the wire kennel with a pee pad. Worked like a charm. Not only did she not pee in her kennel, it reenforced the pee pad training, because the only place to really go outside of the small crate was the pee pad ( I put her water dish in the corner that wasn't used by the pee pad or the crate. Since my pup is now older, I have stopped using the large wire crate and she is able to hold it all night in her smaller crate. With this method I never deprived her of water, and she still had her little den, and it saved me a lot of work and stress.
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