I have a welsh corgi puppy that is 3 months old. I've only had him for a week, and have been diligently working on housetraining. I take him out every hour on the hour for potty time, and feed him twice a day, once at about 5:30am, once at 3-4pm. This whole week he's progressed very well, to going potty almost on command now.
I've been using a crate to help me potty train him. He spends maybe 30 minutes out of every hour in his crate. If he's sleeping, I let him sleep. If he wakes up, I take him out to go potty then come in for play time or back in the crate - depending on whether or not I'm going to be in the same room. He seeps in my bedroom on the open floor with papers down for potty, since I don't trust he can hold his potty in the crate all night yet.
My mom insists that I'm being mean to him by keeping him in his crate "the whole day" (all told, it adds up to about 6 hours in the crate each day) and tells me I shouldn't be using the crate unless I'm out of the room. Am I keeping him crated for too long?
Until he's fully housetrained I don't want to let him out for free roam of the house all the time. Whenever mom's home, and she insists on him being out, he has accidents in the house. When she's at work, and I can stick to my plan, he never has an accident.
-Tim
I've been using a crate to help me potty train him. He spends maybe 30 minutes out of every hour in his crate. If he's sleeping, I let him sleep. If he wakes up, I take him out to go potty then come in for play time or back in the crate - depending on whether or not I'm going to be in the same room. He seeps in my bedroom on the open floor with papers down for potty, since I don't trust he can hold his potty in the crate all night yet.
My mom insists that I'm being mean to him by keeping him in his crate "the whole day" (all told, it adds up to about 6 hours in the crate each day) and tells me I shouldn't be using the crate unless I'm out of the room. Am I keeping him crated for too long?
Until he's fully housetrained I don't want to let him out for free roam of the house all the time. Whenever mom's home, and she insists on him being out, he has accidents in the house. When she's at work, and I can stick to my plan, he never has an accident.
-Tim