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For those of you who don't know, we acquired Jade just last week. She has an older sister, Gracie, who just turned a year old and an older brother, Barkley, who is 9.
Jade is being crate trained as did her siblings. However, when we got Gracie she slept through the night after the first 5 days. Before that I had only taken her out once during the night.
Jade is not doing the same. I was hoping she would just magically be trained from day 1. Lol jk!
Jade gets up at least every two hours. I'm so exhausted that I've resorted to going to bed at 9 pm. I do figure the first time is my fault since I'm going to bed so early but was hoping after the 11 pm trip she would sleep at least until 5 am. But, that is not the case.

Also during the day she does fine in the crate if I'm home and we stick to the routine:
Get up 6 am (or earlier)
Go out
Eat
Go out
Play for about 20 min
Go out
Play for 15-20
Go out and then get crated.
She will sleep for about an hour and then I will take her out, walk her outside, play for awhile, go out again, repeat play and go out (which gives her about an hour out and an hour in her crate.)
I repeat throughout the day until bed time.

Since Gracie is a year old she frequently wears Jade out with wrestling. So, she should be quite exhausted.
If I let Jade cry through the night, I'm afraid she will wet herself because each time I take her out she at least urinates. The other reason is because if she's crated for longer than an hour, she will urinate too - even if she emptied herself before being crated.
The magical number of one hour per month is not working for her. I don't leave her in there when we are home, but like today we went grocery shopping and (well she also snuck out because I didn't latch the crate lol) she wet in the crate even under the 2 hour mark.

So, any suggestions? There is no bedding in her crate so she's not wetting that. I do clean with an enzyme cleaner. I also clean her up if she wet on herself. Do I let her cry it out a few times at night?

I know she's still a baby, but I've read it's really bad for them to pee in the crate. I'm not stressing this time around like I did with Gracie. She did tinkle a few times in the crate, but it wasn't the same as what Jade is doing and even though I fretted over it, it was fine.

Thanks!

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Actually she was in a very good environment. My hubby calls her a free range dog and that's why she doesn't get it. Lol.
She was born in the house and the breeder has them in a kiddie pool for when they are little then changes it to an ex pen as they grow. She also had free time out doors and such. The only time she was crated was right before we brought her home and that was only a few days. The breeder tries to get them ready for their new home. Mom is their pet and so she is very loved.
So last night (or early morning) I decided to just let her cry at her 2 hour wake up call. She didn't cry loud or anything so I figured she wasn't too much in a hurry to get out. She went back to sleep and woke up at 4 am - at which time I did go and get her. Returned her and she tried to get up at 5, but again I left her and then got up at 6:30 before she had time to cry again. All was dry!

Hoping this is a good sign and that I was just getting worried over nothing. Now to get her to hold it during the day if we are out and about for a few hours.

Sounds like progress!

I will probably jinx myself, but Jade slept from 11 to almost 6 am! I kept looking at the clock at 5:45 and thought I was dreaming. Lol
She's also lying peacefully in her crate now going on two hours while I've been home doing chores and such. I had to ignore some of her crying though, but it really wasn't much.
Thanks for all of the input!

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