| Rainah stays in her crate during the day for around 7 hours. We did the same thing as Pammy... we worked up to that time... for about the first 2 months that we had her, we had a dog walker come in and take her out for a walk for a hour. We slowly pushed the time back that the dog walker came (ie, come at 12, then a week later 12:30, then a week later 1:00) until Rainah was staying in there for 7 hours without making a sound/having accidents. She still sleeps in her crate in the night time too, mostly because she won't settle on her own bed - she gets up and tries to play. Eventually she will do it, but she isn't ready for it yet.
Also, she gets a hour walk in the morning and is out of her crate for about another 2 hours in the morning before she has to go back in (we get up really early in order to do this for her) then in the evenings when I get home I walk her for at least a hour usually, or take her to an off leash dog park for playtime. We just started her at a doggy day care yesterday and we plan on putting her there maybe once a week for a play day.
Good luck!!
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