Ok, so I created a problem for myself! Crate training (almost 9 week old, here for about a week) is going slooowwwwww. I follow all the guidelines suggested here. I feed her in there; I leave random treats in there, and she regularly goes in there to check it out; she gets her bone in there only, and she will go in there and chew on that a while here and there. I put her in there for random times (5 min, 10 min, etc) through the day and then let her right out to potty; when I see her want to nap, I put her in the crate (with door open for now)...most of the time she get's right back out, so I have been waiting for her to be asleep to put her back in. I figured if she can understand that if she wants to be undisturbed, then the crate is the place to sleep. BUT, we have small bedrooms, and the crate will not fit beside the bed at night, at first she was laying in a laundry basket and doing good at that. Then I really hit a brick wall, and serioulsy needed some sleep! Everyone around here is sick, and I was coming down with something. (she gets up every 2 hours or so to potty) so, a couple of nights ago, I just let her sleep in the bed. Not suprsingly, she slept in 4 hour stretches. Three days in a row of this, and she things the bed is hers. My question is, how do I fix my lazy stupidity!!!
Do I bite the bullet and just let her tough it out for a while, only letting her out at night to potty????