I have an 11 week old Corgi/Beagle mix that I have had and been crate training for about three weeks. When it's time to put her in the crate I tell her "it's cubby time" (yeah, I know, it's cheesy ) and she walks right into the crate, sits down and awaits her treat. And she'll continue to sit patiently for a few minutes before she decides that she's had enough and starts howling and whining (and, no, I don't and let her out when she does that). She has plenty of toys that enjoys in there with her. My question is two-fold. First, how long before she accepts her crate? Anything else I can do to help that along? Second, at night, after about 3-4 hours, she'll start whining. How do I know whether it's a whine for attention, or for a bathroom break? If it's been 3-4 hours since I put her in, I'll get up and take her outside. She always goes but sometimes she doesn't last 3-4 hours and I can't help but wonder how many times she's really whining for attention.She's in her crate no longer than 4 hours at a time. I put her in when I go to work in the morning, then I come home and let her out to eat and play at lunch, put her back in, and then when I get home (4:30-ish), she is let out and remains out until around 9:30 - 10:00 at night. I try to take her on walks, or at the very least let her play around in the backyard, or roam around on our back deck with me.

11 weeks - I'd say she's doing well. That's still fairly young. but - i'm not going to pretend to be an expert - i'll leave that to everyone else ( i just love beagles!)

How many hours a day are you keeping her in the crate? She is a tiny baby in people terms. She misses her Mom and she wants companionship. Do you walk her? She needs to be walked. They need people to do things with them.

pups can not truely start holding their bladder until their 12 weeks old so i'm not suprised with having a few accidents. The question is when are you putting the pup in? throughout the day? at night only? is the crate in your room? in another location? Howling could be from the beagle side of her, I have 3 corgis, all very quiet, non of them howl. A friend of mine has a beagle and he's a howler. You can try squirting the pup with a water bottle into her face whenever she starts howling so she can put one and one together Howl = squirt in the face.