We started with 2 crates, one in the lounge and one in the bedroom. Logan(our german shepherd puppy) came to bed with us and slept in his night time crate, we set the alarm and got up every 3 hours to take him out for toilet breaks and straight back in the crate, he never has had an accident in either crate. Then he would go in his lounge crate in the day and when we go to work, we leave the door open when we are at home but he takes himself in there for a sleep whenever he chooses.
He now sleeps in his crate in the lounge at night aswell as we found he was panting a lot in the bedroom and was getting too hot. It took a couple of weeks of getting up and taking him out in the night to get him to go through the night without needing to go out for a toilet break, he now goes running into his crate when we get his bedtime bonio out of the kitchen and say bedtime and sleeps through until 7 am when we get up. He is 14weeks old.

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