> Any tips as to how to get him to know NOT to go in his crate, or will
> it just happen in time ???
Yes. Here's a tip. What you're asking of Archie is impossible. At 14
weeks of age, he has very little control over his elimination. Even most
adult dogs cannot go 8 hours or more without eliminating, much less a wee
puppy. You have literally put him in a no-win situation where he has NO
CHOICE but to pee in his crate. If you continue to keep him crated with
nowhere else to urinate during the night, he'll continue to do it, become
accustomed to doing it, and continue doing it as an adult.
A chihuahua pup of Archie's age needs to urinate every 2-3 hours AND he
needs constant access to food and water. So here are your choices. Either
you can get up every 2-3 hours and take him out to pee, or you can put him
in a larger enclosure for the night (such as a playpen or x-pen, or a
bathroom with a baby gate across the door) containing pee pads, and teach
him to use the pee pads during the night. Re this problem and your other
problem, I would train him to use pee pads inside the house.
If you go to the files section of the group's home page, you will find a
file called Housebreaking.txt that I uploaded, which contains a very easy
and successful potty training technique, but it's doomed to failure if
you're demanding urinary continence of a wee puppy, any more than if you
expected a human newborn to be able to hold his urine and feces overnight.
Anne
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