Schedule times during the day and advise your neighbors of when you plan on accomplishing this. Keeps good standings with your neighbors.

While you are home do the following:

Command "Kennel up": Place him in his crate for about 1/2 hour. Go outside pull weeds, plant flowers whatever. Ignore him for the 1/2 hour completely. When that half hour is up, release him and give him all that goofy happy praise stuff. Then repeat againfor about another hour. Never give him attention when he whines at anytime. (This is hard and nerve racking for me).

At night however, you might want to relocate the crate outside of your bedroom door (leave door open). Right now he has you trained. If he whinges and whines, ignore him. Don't tell him to ShSh, he wins by getting your attention.

Once you get up, then let him out, with all that goofy praise stuff again. (I let DH do this, as I don't function 1st thing in the morning.), and take him outside.