pooping in the crate

Question
We have had our Shih-Poo puppy one week and we are trying to crate train.  She is 13-14 weeks old.  She cries horribly evertime we put her in her crate.  We always take her outside and make sure she poops before going in.  She cries and then poops in her crate.  The last 3 nights, she has pooped twice! Takes over 30 minutes to clean the crate up & her, too.  We do have a small, airplane crate for her as she is only 3 lbs.  How can I stop this?  It's almost like she is getting so mad at us, she poops on purpose!  We put the crate in the laundry room b/c if she sees us cries.  Any suggestions?

Answer
It is only natural that a puppy resists its crate at first.  What the puppy
wants more than anything else is to be with others, you, anyone else in the
household, and any other pets.  In our modern society, even if we are home,
other things distract us from the attention an uncrated puppy must have.   The
only real solution is to crate the dog when you aren't around.  Leave it some toys.  Perhaps a Kong filled with peanut butter.  Don't leave anything in the crate the dog might chew up.  Rather than relaxing and catching a nap in their den, some puppies protest by fouling the crate.  I haven't had this problem.   I see many questions suggesting it, and saw my daughter fight the problem.  

A wire rack in the bottom of the crate will help keep the puppy up out of urine and to a lessor extent stools.  They are available with the crates, but a piece of closely spaced wire closet shelving from a home supply place is cheaper.  This reduces the mess, making the protest much less effective.  The longer haired the puppy, the higher it needs to be.  In warmer weather, you can just haul the crate out and hose everything off.  When the puppy sees you coping with the situation, and you stand your ground, most of them give up and learn to relax, and that you will return.  One more thing that may help is using a smaller crate, or blocking off part of a larger one so the puppy can't fouled one spot and retreat.
 
Getting her to quiet down and go to sleep when you crate her, may help.  I have never had much luck with the old clock or radio tricks.  What I do is lay down by the crate like I was going to sleep there.  Usually a puppy may fuss a little, but then settle down and go to sleep.  Once it is asleep, you can get up and go to bed.