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Re: the crate with walls? Can they see out at all? It sounds like the top is open, as well as the front door area, and that is all.

I have a wire crate.

The walled crates have openings on the sides for the dog to veiw out of and of course the door is wire so they can see out of that. No window on the top.

If you have a wire crate, no need to get another crate. Just drape a towel or a blanket over the top, leaving the door area uncovered so she can see out of it. That should be enough to give her a feeling of an enclosed "den-like" area and should help with the security issue.

soiling crate upon separation

We have been leaving our six month old Yorkie in a crate but when we leave to go out to dinner or on a quick errand, she invariably soils the crate---I have come home to a yorkie who is frantic and there is poop all over the crate. We have only left her for a short time (15 minutes) in some instances...

while we have only had her for a month, I do wonder about why she is doing this....if the breeder uses the kind of crate where the potty pad is underneath, do you think this contributed to the problem? it was my understanding that the dogs would do anything not to soil her crate...she goes through the night beautifully....I suspect she's just frantic when we leave her home....any advice would be helpful!

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Originally Posted by yorkiesinstowe

if the breeder uses the kind of crate where the potty pad is underneath, do you think this contributed to the problem?

Absolutely! If your pup came from a home where she had to use her crate as a potty, it will be extremely difficult to teach her that it is now not okay.

I know most people don't agree wuth this but Cali is the first dog I have ever crated out of my 5 dogs i have had and I love it and so does she. I have her in a dog playpen with an open top and a zippered front. I put a wee wee pad in their at one end and her bedding at the other. She has used it since I brought her home 10 months ago. I made a point of going out every day when she was little for 1- 2 hours and she would be put in her crate. I would always say I'm going to Nana's and I'll be right back. Now all she has to see is me putting on my shoes and she goes into her crate and goes to sleep and I zip it closed. I still keep her pad in there so that during the day she just runs in there and uses it. Many times during the day she will go into her crate and take a nap or if we have company and she want's to get away she goes in there. I was never for crating until now. It has worked great for us. I do think they like the security of it once they are use to it. Good luck I hope you find somethingto help you both.

I started using a crate with Teddy and Tiffanie and I also am for the puppies...They do come in handy. When my father was in the hosptial (which is a 1 & 1/2 hours away from our house) last Dec for 6 weeks straight with his bypass surgery...I stayed there 4 days straight, my husband came home, and them being used to being in the crate helped so very much...For without it I don't know what we would of done! On the 1st day of his surgery we was there all day long and couldn't come home...& the days I stayed my older girls would come over and let the babies out...But mine sleep in dog carriers, they both can stand up in them and move around good in them. & they never potty in them! They both sleep in them @ night too. Now I think I'm keeping my 1st baby born and I'm getting ready to get him a carrier too to sleep in a night. As of now the puppies (All 4) are in a Big wire crate, I took would fence boards, cut them to fit around the edges of the crate so they wouldn't get their noses stuck in between the bars, took an old sheet, cut peices of material, took a staple gun, stapled the material to the boards so they wouldn't chew on them. Then I took twine and wrapped it around the wires and boards and tied it to the wires on the outside to attach them to the cage(Yes I've caught them chewing on the twine and I just clap my hands and say NO and they stop)...Works like a dream...They went into the crate @ about 4 weeks of age with Tiffanie's whelping box (A big tote with the side cut out of it...I ducked taped an old hand towel around the edges to keep them from rubbing their belly until they got taller and could come in & out easy) and the whelping box was to be a bed for them...(Oh & if U're breeding this is easier to wean the puppies for I just kept Tiffanine away from them @ night at age 6 to 7 weeks when I moved the crate from the bedroom to the living room and then let her nurse during the day and then on the final week I kept her bound with a receiving blanket when she was playing with the pups for a week & at the end of the whole week she was 100% dried up...NO PROBLEMS what so ever from her or the pups!They was 100% weaned at 8 weeks of age! And eating can food good) I put blankees in there, well these little rotten things thought well Mama Lee this is gonna be our potty room, so I took the blankees out put puppy pads in and I'll be dang if they didn't eat the puppy pads! So I put newspapers in and that is great for them...They go in there potty and come out & sleep, eat & play outside...I have newspapers out in the bottom of the crate too incase they spill their water, but all 4 go into the tote to pee & poop...I think they could be littler box trained with newspaper in it. When we let them run the house they use the puppy pads & I take them outside to potty too. I love raising Yorkees...I've had 100% great experience with my 1st litter all the way around! I couldn't ask for anything better with my 6 babies!...Well sorry this is so long but it might help others who are trying to train puppies now. At least I hope it does! Hugs, Lee