kennel training

Question
how long can a two month old puppy be in a kennel before taken out?

Answer
Hi Catherine;
I don't approve of kennel training at all!!!
At a point when humans have learned that keeping wild animals in pens, totally foreign to their natural habitat, some idiot comes along and starts advocating penning up family pets, and the movement begins.
It is cruel, and not at all in the best interest of the animal or the humans involved.
I know some experts claim the dogs actually love their little "dens".
RUBBISH!!!!!
If you have one of those cages, and leave the door open so the dog can come and go as they please, then they could actually love their bed, but closing the door is penning them up, so they cannot move around that much, cannot run and play and get the proper exercise for their muscles and growth, and afects them emotionally as well.
Training them to behave in the house is FAR superior to keeping them caged.
I have 4 dogs, of different breeds and sizes. They all live in the house.
I don't have accidents to clean up. I don't have ruined carpets or furniture, and I don't have unp[leasant experiences with having them in the house. Quite the contrary. I foster dogs for several rescue groups, and these dogs actually help me train the foster dogs I bring home.
I don't have to go through the housebreaking exercises, my dogs do it for me. They take them out after they eat. The foster dogs learn by watching and following along with my dogs.
Training is the key to raising animals and raising children.
They behave the way you tach them to behave.
When I worked away from home, and I took a new puppy, I took it on the weekend and housebroke it in that time, them I arranged our schedules so that it took care of the times we could be there, and had a restricted area, with no carpeting, and papers down, to take care of times when a young puppy would have to move their bowels or urinate, when we couldn't be there to take it outside.
A 2 month old puippy is still having to be fed 4 times a day, so it can't be left along for longer than about 5 or 6 hours, in a crate or in a large room.
A puppy hat age needs a lot of exercise. In a matter of several hours, it's muscles can become cramped in a restricted area such as a crate.
I poersonally would not confine one in that small a space for more than an hour.
Charlotte