Gina thanks sooooo much. Your encouragement and willingness to help is a breath of fresh air What I was doing was restricting her water in my efforts to toilet train her well. I have realsied I need to just relax a bit. She now has unlimited water. I can't believe I was so stupid.

I am using Hills Science puppy formula...biscuits. The pack says to give her 1 cup a day so I am giving half in the morning and half at night...but I have been estimated it, not measuring the amounts. So I will measure the amounts, and also I think that now she can have water as much as she needs, it might regulate her poops.

I have ordered a proper crate for her, as I was just using the cat carrier for the last few days.

She is doing really well. She is really good. She whines from time to time in her pen but only a cute little whine, but for the most part she is really happy. She never makes any noise in her crate/carrier at night....she just settles in happily.

The only thing I wonder about is this. Does it sound ok?

Up until now she has been sleeping in the cat carrier as temporary crate with no problems at all. I take her for a good walk in the morning as soon as we get up after she has breakfast. Before I go to work, I take her out to the backyard for a toilet break, and then place her in her pen with a bed, toys and newspaper (just in case). The pen is about times bigger than a crate.

After 3-4 hours, I return home, and spend 30 - 60 minutes with her out of the pen...a toilet break and then play time/training. I then put her back in the pen and go back to work for another 4 hours and come home. At night I am with her all the time for a variety of activities including a long walk, or a drive to the dog park or similar.

Would be ok to leave her in her crate for the morning, and then switch her to the pen for the afternoon? What are the pros and cons of doing this? My thinking is that it will break up her day
more. Night Crate, morning routine, Morning Crate, noon change over to pen in back room, evening pen in lounge room. Sleeping time, back in create at about 10pm or 11pm. .....But maybe its not so good for her to spend time in the crate in the morning since she has already spent all night in it.