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06:39 PM

Help! I got my 5 month old Boston Terrier three months ago. Her name is Abby and she is a wonderful, happy, healthy, very playful Boston, and I truly love her. Here is a video of Abby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wVK4yv6fEM

Here’s my problem. I am gone for ten hours a day. I leave the house at 6:30AM and get home around 4:30ish. I work an hour away from home. I crate train when I am at home in the evenings and on the weekends and she’s done pretty well with it.

Being that I am gone for so long during the day, I can’t very well crate her for that long, so I’ve been gating her off in my larger bathroom with her open crate. She has a litter box, which she uses occasionally in that bathroom for pooping, but she seems to pee on the floor all the time. She misses the litter box it seems. When I come home from work, the bathroom is a complete mess. She has peed, pooped and then walked in it and spread it all over the floor, into her crate, bed, etc.

Every night when I get home I know that I have to give her a complete bath, wash the entire bathroom floor, clean her crate, toys, bed, etc. I love this dog dearly, but this is really starting to wear on me after three months. I come home in a very bad mood because I know the drill ahead of me. She obviously hates the daily Monday through Friday bath and I hate giving it to her. But after playing in pee and poop all day, what can I do????

I’ve also tried puppy pee pads which she uses beautifully, but then she tears them up, drags them into her crate and spreads the pee and poop everywhere. I want to make this work, but I am getting extremely distraught and angry because of the situation. I don’t punish her because I know that’s not the answer. But what CAN I do?

She’ll be six months old on Christmas Day and I plan on having her fixed in January.
And just so you know, I can’t afford a dog walker or doggy day care. That is not at all a possibility, and I have no close family or friends near by to come over to take her out.

Is this something she will grow out off?

And advice or encouragement would be greatly appreciated.

Russ