What other options can I try?
 

I've had baby Leo for a few months now. He usually does pretty well on the pee pee pads only peeing and pooping on those but sometimes he misses. I have a custom kennel for them that I had made and so their beds are unconventional. It's pretty much a gigantic full body pillow with a waterproof cover and then a cuddle cover on top of that. The smell of his urine when he misses stays on there and NOTHING but bleach and laundry detergent will take the smell out of the waterproof cover. He now automatically associates the corner of the cage where his pee pee pad usually goes with the bathroom so he'll pee and poop in that spot regardless of there being a pad there or not.
I recently started to crate train him at 7 months old. Not sure if it's too late now and I'm just going to have to take him out a million times a day and get him on a schedule to potty train him. The problem we were faced with last night was un-ending whining. He was barking and whining and howling ALL NIGHT LONG. I barely slept a wink because of him. He didn't stop until we moved one of our other dogs in there with him and finally got about an hour of sleep. Is there any pointers anyone has for someone in a situation like I am? I'm tired of the cage smelling like pee and I'm not sure what else I can do to make sure he doesnt cry at night.

For those pee misses:
I wrap a water bottle (filled w/ water so it can stand upright w/out tipping over), w/ pee pad paper & prop that against the wall in the bathroom (their designated pee area). My boys use that as a marker to pee & they didn't need to be trained @ all, they started using it right away. The water bottle also holds the pee paper up against the wall so they don't pee on the wall when they hike their leg. (I had a picture of it but can't find it now.)

If you need to put a marker in the middle of the pee pad, I would suggest using a larger jar, like a pickle jar.

About his crying @ night, were there fireworks going off last night? Sorry, can't give any insight in that area, mine are not crate trained.

Oh that's a really good idea for the future maybe lol! He's only 7 months old so he's not really raising his leg completely yet to pee. Still doing the squat 😂 And yeah there were fireworks but he wasn't crying because of that. We ended up putting one of our other dogs in the crate with him so he wouldn't be alone and POOF! Barking stopped LOL. We've been alternating our 2 other dogs sleeping with him at night until he gets used to it and so far there's been minimal accidents. He's holding his pee and poop all night and letting us know when its time to go outside. I'm going to keep up with this until he goes a month without any accidents and then see if I can slowly ween him back into the big cage during the day and then 100% of the time. Thanks for the water bottle idea!! 😁😁😁