Our BT, Lexi, has been doing very well with house training for the most part. She hasn't yet figured out how to tell us she needs to go out but we generally will feed her at 7am and 5 pm taking her out somewhere between 1-1.5 hrs. after eating. Also after naps,first thing in the morning, before bed or when we leave the house and usually every 2 hrs. in between all of that. The problem is that I work from 6am to 4 pm and my wife's schedule changes from day to day sometimes she goes in around 1 or 2 pm and sometimes she goes in when I do. When we have to leave Lexi in her crate for more than 2 or 3 hours she sometimes will poop in it and eat it making her very sick and vomits until it gets out of her system. Tomorrow is the first time she will be going in as early as I do since we have gotten Lexi and she will be in her crate all day, I guess I will have to wait and see what happens. I was wanting to know what we could do to fix/help this problem of hers and if anyone else has this problem? She is in the process of switching brands of food which I am hoping will regulate her better. Any and all advice/tips are welcome and appreciated, thanks!

I am a new owner to a Boston pup as well. So I am not even a novice owner lol!

Is it possible to have a friend or Family member come to clean lexi's crate?
I have a Sister and Cousin who are more then willing to such things for us when we have to be away for long periods at a time.

Or have you thought about boarding Lexi? That is if Lexi is current with her shots. It is a lot cheaper then you think. Where I am from it is 12 bucks for a stay. I imagined it to cost around 40 or 50 bucks a stay. But to my surprise it was much cheaper.

Hope these help in some way.
-Chris

Thanks for the reply,after coming home to a disaster, I said that would never happen again!! So, in order to prevent it from happening, don't give any opportunities for it. We called a local doggy day care facility here and they are going to keep her for us when we both have to work during the day and can't watch her. They charged me $22 for the entire day, and 11 for half a day, not bad considering the mess we had to clean and the price of cleaning materials,lol.

I found by giving my BT a table spoon of pumpkin pie filling when she was little it did something to the poo and after about two days she stopped eating her own poo but every now and then she will get in to the cat box and eat the cat poo.

i'd rather eat puympkinpie than pooh any day!!! go puppy!