Yesterday, my husband and I adopted a 2 y/o female dog from the shelter. I wanted to get a feel for how she will do when she'll be left at home on Monday, so last night I created her in the bedroom with the lights on and closed the door for two minutes. I could hear that she was whimpering, and when I had opened the door she had peed and pooped in the crate.
The crate that we have is too big for her because we bought it for our 3 year old chow mix who is much larger. I ordered a small crate on Amazon but it won't be here until Monday. The shelter warned me that using too large a crate might encourage them to use the bathroom in it, but I really just wanted to see how she felt about being crated.
Today, I wanted to see how she would do at home alone again. This time, I left her in the living room and closed off all the other doors. I left through the front door and waited for one minute. Again, I could hear her distressed whimpering, and she was scratching at the door. She didn't use the bathroom at all, so I considered it a success.
We tried again, this time for two minutes and when I came back in, she had peed at the front door (luckily we have wood floors). I'm not sure I'd there's a better way that we can be handling this or if we will just have to wait for her to learn that every time we leave we will be back.
Monday will be the first day she will be home alone. My husband and I are grad students, but live two blocks away from the university. I usually leave at 7:40 am, and my husband leaves around 9:15. Then we're both home for lunch from 12pm-1:30pm. Then I'm home at 4:30.
We didn't have this issue with our Chow. He really enjoyed crate training and was able to be left at home alone pretty quickly after we adopted him. Can anyone offer any advice?
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