puppies and house training

[Annette4]

I don't know if I've always been lucky or I'm very unlucky but fizz is really struggling with house training. She's dry when we're in but needs to go out roughly every hour. She has never messed in the house but her bed is wet every morning. I go down at 12 then back down at 5. If she's asleep when we're in she can go 4-5 hours so I know she can and I'm assuming it's to do.with being in her crate? Jack is next to her and we make sure she goes before going to bed. I know she's a baby so hoping with perseverance she'll be fine but I don't want weeing in her crate to become habit.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Personally, I think there can be several different reasons for why puppies/dogs have trouble with becoming housebroken. In a situation like you describe, my first thoughts is that it could be because of stress, insecurity and/or be a protest. I've had puppies, and have met other people's puppies/dogs, that seemed to do it due to stress and that it was a way to release tension, seemed to somehow be comforted by making the area smell like their territory, and/or did it as a way to protest about something in the situation.

Things I can think of to try would be to try using something like an Adaptil diffuser, to make her more relaxed in the crate.
Or putting a hot water bottle, and/or a clock inside or just outside her crate.
Give her some gnaw bones or something like a frozen Kong stuffed with something edible in the crate, so that she has something to do if she wakes up.
In general, I like Cayla's advice that I've read many times on HHO, basically saying that you should begin as you intend to continue, and just let them get used to the sleep arrangements that you want. But, I also don't see anything wrong with adjusting a little to the individual, so I would try to sleep next to the crate or somewhere in the room, to see if that changed anything. If it did, maybe she's just not yet secure enough in herself, to always sleep without a big part of her flock.
Besides taking her out for a "last" wee, perhaps try to do things that could make her more tired before you put her in the crate for the night.

This may sound a little unscientific, but I would also perhaps try to move the crate to another place in the room. Because sometimes when I've moved the furniture in a room, it has happened that my bitches haven't wanted to use one of their dog beds, that my cats haven't wanted to use one of their cat trees, or that I have not been comfortable sitting in the sofa any more, but moving them back or to another new place in the room, have made my bitches start to use the dog bed/made the cats start to use the cat tree/made me comfortable to sit in the sofa again.