Loki is a bigger yorkie (full grown almost 10 pounds at 1 1/2 yrs old) and I don't expect him to hold it for 5 hours now, let alone when he was 5 months old. He could hold it 2-3 hours at that age.
Also, don't put the pee pads in the crate. That's defeating the purpose of crate training. If you want to pee-pad train them, then do that. If you want to outside train them, then do that. But don't put pads in the crate - that just teaches them to pee in their crate! You also may need to remove the towels - we did. Loki would pee on it and then push it to the side. Once we took it out he stopped going in there (unless we left him too long, of course).
What's happening is that they are sleeping until noon. Then they get an hour of exercise or whatever but they aren't sleeping all afternoon. Plus you probably give them food/water when you come home, right? You have to wear them out sufficiently so they sleep all afternoon too, and i wouldn't hurt to have someone let them out in the afternoon. |