Keep your chin up!!!!!@! You will get this done!!!!! Good Luck!!!

That's a very good idea. Gosh, your puppy is so darned cute. Good luck!

Oh, please hang in there with your little one.
I think most of us here truly do understand what you are going through.
There are a lot of VERY supportive and caring people here. I am so grateful for the support I have gotten where my Abby is concerned. I am still in the potty training stages with her. She is 9 months old and will be 10 months old Friday. Sometimes it's one step forward and two steps back. Again, please hang in there. :)

Sorry about your potty frustration...

this is what worked for mine....

With Zander, I would take him out of the crate every hour, he was 3 months,.... within a few days I went to every 2 hours and continued to move it up....I would take him outside, I read that you should name the #1, so as he is going #1, I would say, good boy, pipi, good boy, and immediately give him a treat, it can be .50 of a cheerio. I would do the same with #2. I would give him a few minutes, so he would understand pipi first then play. If he didn't produce back into the crate, if he did he would get play time. When I was off to work, he would stay in the bathroom with a pipi pad, bed & toys, I had to get him cloth pads anchored to a pad holder. If he is in an xpen, pin the pad underneath one of the sides of the xpen. This is how Zander learned to use the pad as well, he only uses it now if he just can't hold it. Even now if he tries to hold back and not go #1 when I take him, we walk back to the door, then back to the grass, he then gets it that we are not going in until he goes tinkle.
With Jazzie I just kept her leashed to me, if she started to squat, immediately told her, pipi outside, and take her out on the grass. With her I put a bell on the back door, showed her how to smack it when she had to go outside, I would smack it and say pipi outside, give her a cheerio for smacking it, go outside, tell her to go pipi, when she did, immediately gave her a cheerio, saying good girl pipi outside! etc.

Being persistant is what I noticed works. I remember setting the alarm clock at 5:30 am just to take Zander outside to poo & pi, I knew his sleep was lighter around that time so I wanted to make sure he understood that this stuff is done outside. I read that when they are 5 months or younger, take them out of the crate, hold them in your arms, then put them on the grass, since they are so young and don't hold it as well they could tinkle on the way out :).

Be patient, keep up the good work and you will feel very proud of your furbaby once he is potty trained. :thumbup:

But I do know that when crating they need to be in a crate they can see out of (not like a carrier) IMO in an open crate they are much more calm. Heck I would hate to be in a dark area

i feel the same way about a enclosed crate. i live in the midwest where it is horribly hot and humid in the summer. the thought of my little sammy dying of the heat, even with a window air conditioner going and a fan on low blowing into the enclosed crate makes me ILL to think about. i have sammy in a wire crate ( larger than him ), because it is the only size i could find. i have to keep a plastic shower curtain under it too catch the '' spray ''. i am getting very frustrated with the whole business and having to clean him , the crate and curtain each morning and when i get home from work. but he just wont stop going in it at night or day even though i limit his water and take him out constantely and before bed time. i am at my wits end but im not giving up on him. i know i must do different training. i am getting good tips here on what else too do. thanks to all of you for giving such great advice for a very bad habit that is very hard to break. now on too barking at anything that moves when he is out or in the house ( a whole other issue )!!!!!