My puppy is 9 weeks old so I get that she’s very young, however I have read over and over again that the best way to potty train a dachshund is by crate training. The idea is that dogs don’t like to go in the places they sleep so they hold it. That is not even remotely happening with our pup.

Here is the schedule: Boyfriend goes to bed at 11pm. He takes her out before lights out. I get up at 1am and take her out. He gets up at 3 am to take her out. Finally at 5am I get up for the day and take her out.

She is very young so we were recommended to take her out every two hours or more. However, almost immediately after putting her in her crate throughout the night, she pees or poops in the crate. Like immediately after we put her in there. We’re still locking the crate and she’s doing her business in there while we watch in horror! And we will have JUST taken her out. We are starting to think she is doing it on purpose because she wants to be with us and hates the crate.

During the day if we leave the crate open she will go in and out of it and even lay down in it and take a quick nap, and we have tried feeding her in there as well as putting toys in there, though we have stopped putting her toys in there because she is pooping on them!

We know this is the hardest part and we just need to get through it, but this is happening multiple times a night and she’s so small... how can she have so much poop to do this much damage! We’re hoping someone who has been through similar can give us a nugget of wisdom to get us through. Does it just take consistency and time or are we doing something wrong?? Help!!