Hello!

I've just joined the forum because i need a little bit of help!

I have got a 10 week old Patterdale x Border Terrier puppy called Mac, and i've not had a puppy before as i've always had older rescue dogs.
I have made the decision to crate train him, but we're having some problems. When we take him outside he is happy to go to the toilet, and he still has accidents in the house (which we totally expect as he is so little!!), but the thing i am not sure about is that he is still weeing in his crate. I have followed different advice and I have made sure his crate is small enough that he doesn't have a toilet area and a sleeping area, but the thing that is confusing me is that he always wee's in the middle of the crate and then sleeps in it!! Is this normal?? I had assumed that he would wee in the corner or something. He can happily go for up to 4 hours in the day and can go overnight without waking or weeing, but other times he will have had a few wee's by the time we let him out in the morning. He has never woken us up in the night to tell us he needs to go out either. I have also tried limiting the times he has access to water, but this doesn't seem to have any effect.

Any advice would be gratefully received!

Also, he is getting on really well with my other dog Maizie (5 year old whippety heinz 57 variety) but when we first got him she was obsessively licking his ears!! Any ideas why she would do this?? I had to separate them in the end as he had her slobber all over his ears and he wouldn't stop shaking his head!!!

Look forward to hearing from anyone!