My foster dog is an English Setter, he is only a year old, so very much a puppy. We have him in a crate when we are not around. He goes out for potty breaks once at 3 in the morning, then is let back out at 6am, and is let to play out there for an hour and a half with my other dog. Then is taken back out around 3 in the afternoon when my husband gets home from work. Then is put back in his crate at around 10pm at night. So he has a lot of breaks in between. He has a clean bill of health, so no problems there. I think he has just gotten into a bad habit with his past owner. And I need to know how to nip it in the butt.