Crate training advice

Hey all,

Looking for a bit of advice, we’re crate training our 8 week old Doberman, it’s his 4th day at home so it’s all still a learning curve for us both.

We have a 1 yr Rottweiler mix who had no issues with the crate no whining of toilet in there whatsoever.

Our Doberman does have accidents in his crate but only overnight so we believe this is more of a bladder holding issue which will sort itself out in the next few weeks as he’s getting good at outside toilet times only.

We’ve gotten him used to the crate and he will also run into it and snuggle down in there, with some persuasion he will settle in the crate no problem and drift off to sleep with no crying. We do sometimes need to stay in the room with his crate door closed just so he can see us but after 5 mins will just drift off to sleep no issue. The first time we put him in it he cried for 90 mins non stop so already a good improvement I think will only get better in time.

Our issue we have is that when he wants to come out of the crate he cries and if it’s been enough time like a few hours he is due to come out and go to the toilet but I don’t want him to associate him crying with us letting him out. If he’s still due to be napping and he’s awake we will usually just sit down by the crate and talk to him calmly until he settles off again but he will not be allowed out. When he is due to come out we’re working on being nice and calm which is progressing slowly, any advice on how to get him to settle before opening the crate when he is due out as he does tend to cry for a while and I also was to mitigate any accidents in the crate.

TIA!