I'm glad you like the name! It took us a LONG time to come up with one we liked. He just looked like a Pesto to me

Well, I give him a Kong and a rawhide treat. The treat remains uneaten when I come home, and the Kong looks unused.

I don't let him out when he cries -- I just leave the house sad.

When I walk outside to take out the trash or whatever, he's usually sitting at attention right by the door and you can tell he's upset that I left him.

I've also tried sitting with him while he's in the crate and he is a bit upset but doesn't cry. But then I leave and he's upset.

Overnight he's fine in it if we're not making too much noise.

Maybe once he and Smudge are a bit more settled (and he can be trusted not to have an accident in the house), I'll leave him alone without the crate. I fear that it's not so much the crate as it is me leaving. Not sure.

Thanks.