Kennels

[MikaTallulah]

Originally Posted by astateshorty

Yeah, we are having some EXTREME heat this year! My baby isn't outside except to use the bathroom. I think my Ryder has seperation anxiety as well. He'll only tear stuff up when we aren't home or if we aren't paying attention to him. Lol.

Sounds like boredom more than separation anxiety to me. He needs toys to work his brain- Kongs are great

[Yorkiemom1]

Originally Posted by BLowry

I wouldn't be leaving a puppy in a crate all day long...My suggestion would be to get an x pen for him. It's got more room for him then a crate. When we got Bentley (3rd yorkie!) he was 5 months old and very small...We kept him in an x pen when we were at work during the day. I would put toys, food, water and a pee pad in there for him. he had plenty of room to play and do his thing in there. His crate is only used at night when it was time for bed. I understand you have a large crate for him but, he is still limited to "space" and when he gets old enough to not spend his days confined he will probably still use his crate as his bathroom...as this is what he is doing now.

I recommend x-pens to all my new owners for day time confinement. Got their pee pad on one side, bed, food and water on the other...toys and space to exercise.....I would never put a puppy in a small crate with only enough room to stand up and turn around in for extended period of time!

[gracielove]

You have a puppy. A puppy cannot go that long in a confined space without having accidents.
Try getting one of the secure pee pad frames that hold the pee pad securely in place so he cannot play with them. Exercise pens seem to work best for puppies that are left alone for hours at a time. However, the puppy is not learning anything while it is alone. If there is no pee pad available to him all he is learning is to pee where ever he can.
Until your puppy is fully grown and fully trained you are going to have this problem. Small puppies have small bladders. Food and water goes through them quickly. If he has to be on his own this long you have got to provide some sort of potty for him. Crate training does not work for a puppy that is left there with no supervision. If they have to go they have to go and no crate is going to stop that.

[Schooby]

We've always left the boys in their ex-pens while we are gone. They each have a bed, water, and their potty pads in their pens. They were both pretty easy to train, since the place they go potty is the same if we are home or not. We just leave the doors open to their pens when we are home, and they go in there to potty.