Ok. I have an 8 month old English Setter. He doesn't seem to get house training. He has only had a couple of accidents in the 6 months we have had him while he was out of the crate and I would say only two that were voluntary as the others were from excitiment. He has had several accidents however inside his crate, some from extended periods due to bad planning or timing on our part but others times it happens it complete baffles us. Example, this weekend he went potty before getting put in the crate and pee'd his crate after 1 1/2 hours. Last night I took his water away at about 8 PM took him outside at 10:3 PM and this morning he woke up whining at 5:20am with a wet crate. He doesn't like it, but he goes anyway. We are trying to train him to go in one particular spot in the yard and gets much praise when he goes, he will try going potty on command everytime, so I just don't get how to stop making him have these crate problems. Any ideas? I should mention he has also pooped in his crate on about 4 occassions. This first was when he was home with a babysitter and the others have happened during short periods of crating of approximately 2 hours or so while we where away for short periods of time (Church, teeball, hockey practice, etc.). We had given him the full crate as he had done pretty good but then he started getting worse so we put the divider back in which has helped but he still has problems....

Eric,

He's still quite young and you may not be giving him enough excercise to allow him to relieve himself adequately before crating.

Additionally I'd have him checked by the vet, just to be sure there are no medical reasons for this, then just keep taking him out regularly for excercise until he gets it.

Be Cool man, be cool.

John

Enlish Setters, both bench AND field lines are typically slow to housetrain -- Don't become discouraged & punitive; he'll eventually get the whole picture <:-)