All I can do is tell you how to crate a pup...
Put the crate in the room where you and your family are. Keep the dog in the crate all the time... as you need adopt the train of thought that the dog is not be allowed ANY trust or rights to the home till the pup has learned to be clean in the home, (potty training).
My dogs are raised in the crate as pups. The crate is moved all over the home throughout the day. The dog is structured into many hours of either training or playtime or walking outside time... etc. All of these structured events happen around the time that the dog is learning that the crate is their "base" place. Dogs are packing animals, which is why you need to keep the dog w/ you... at all times. He will learn to enjoy the calm submissive quiet that the crate affords IF you can organize him to understand that he's a dog IN THE CRATE till he's house broken.
Pups need to go potty all times during the day... you might want to pick up a potty training book or check on line for help. (It's too long to teach you how to potty train a dog as well... ).
Crate training teaches your dog AND QUICKLY that soiling in the home is not allowed.
Read up on how to potty train a dog while crate training...
Once you get the idea... make sure you see this crate like it's a "crib" where you put the baby when he's not in a structured event. All play time, feeding time, walks, training, grooming, etc are "structure events". You put the puppy "away" in the crate between events. He has to learn to have quiet time... It could be taught that it's a good time to chew on a bone for a little while... (if he has a sensitive tummy he might get diarreah w/ a rawhide, so offer him a Nylabone instead. This bone SHOULD ONLY be given when he's in the crate for some quiet time).
It's so hard to describe in words how to teach crating...
You can research it on line too.
Crating is awesome for so many reasons. Another reason would be because dog become easier to take on vacation or to a friends home where you might be staying for a few days. Most people appreciate that your dog can be "put away" at night and not roaming about their home...
Just know as the pup get older the amount of time the pup is able to hold it's bladder changes from month to month. Like, by 4 months, if he's been PROPERLY potty trained... he can hold his bladder inside the crate for at least 2 and a half hours. By 5 months he can hold it for as long as 3 1/2 hrs. By 6 months the bladder has matured and is likely to be able to hold it for as long as 5 hours. (And so on and so forth... meaning by 6 months he can hold it for 5 hours, by 7 months it's 6 hours that he can hold... ).
The bladder is a personal thing to each dog...
So, get the dog next to your bed at night.. crated, and keep him quiet, (by saying "Ttshhhhhhh!" in a loud and negative way. It will quiet him after a while... if not then ignore him). It's hard at the beginning, but after a few weeks he'll get picture that he's a crate dog and in bed for quiet time.
When you are cooking dinner, the dog can be in the kitchen in the crate. When he whines, keep him quiet even then. Whining needs to be dealt w/ at all times when he's crated.
If you have kids and they want to play w/ him then that would be a "structured event" and they can have some play time for a while, but the dog MUST return to it's crate to learn how to simmer down and "quiet relax".
Anyhow, I hope some of this made sense. It's so hard to express in words ON LINE how to crate train... So, good luck... Pick up a training book, maybe?
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