ChrystalPaths
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After reading your last update I lean towards the name "Lovie". May I suggest beginning with a potty area indoors with newspaper. Ok folks don't scream at me yet. 
This wee one is confused and lonesome for the sibs and mom. Tho Marty is talking to her and assuring her that all will be well, she had no earthly idea what to go out means. Try the papers for now and allow her this bit of indulgence. Not to mention the weather downrite sucks eh Marty?
Feed her 4 times a day then right to the papers or out if she can. Save all the poop and pee and put them in one spot, then take her to it (in or out), then keep a soiled paper under the clean ones to draw her back. Eventually when the weather improves (if ever) take the papers out and continue it in one spot making a poo pile. She'll get it in a couple weeks.
My wee one lived in a cage all her life and never was told not to potty someplace but she smelled Fia's potty paper area (I keep a dollar store shower curtain in the hall w/ papers on it. 2 weeks later I can let her out and she go down the stairs alone to pee and poo finally but papers are always there for back up. The wee ones have such little bladders.
As for bedtime, give it up and just let her in bed. I had rottie that I wanted to sleep in the crate by the bed, I'd open the door and hang my hand down for her then fall to sleep. In a wee bit she would crawl up in bed with me, lay her head on my pillow and sleep all nite. Give it up Marty, she's in your heart. (course by the time Belle was a year old I "had" to teach her not to do this she was huge! and she'd sleep in a big doggy bed next me.)
I am so thrilled you have this new baby! She is going to be so very very special.
This wee one is confused and lonesome for the sibs and mom. Tho Marty is talking to her and assuring her that all will be well, she had no earthly idea what to go out means. Try the papers for now and allow her this bit of indulgence. Not to mention the weather downrite sucks eh Marty?
Feed her 4 times a day then right to the papers or out if she can. Save all the poop and pee and put them in one spot, then take her to it (in or out), then keep a soiled paper under the clean ones to draw her back. Eventually when the weather improves (if ever) take the papers out and continue it in one spot making a poo pile. She'll get it in a couple weeks.
My wee one lived in a cage all her life and never was told not to potty someplace but she smelled Fia's potty paper area (I keep a dollar store shower curtain in the hall w/ papers on it. 2 weeks later I can let her out and she go down the stairs alone to pee and poo finally but papers are always there for back up. The wee ones have such little bladders.
As for bedtime, give it up and just let her in bed. I had rottie that I wanted to sleep in the crate by the bed, I'd open the door and hang my hand down for her then fall to sleep. In a wee bit she would crawl up in bed with me, lay her head on my pillow and sleep all nite. Give it up Marty, she's in your heart. (course by the time Belle was a year old I "had" to teach her not to do this she was huge! and she'd sleep in a big doggy bed next me.)
I am so thrilled you have this new baby! She is going to be so very very special.
