Hi everyone, we have Kiko a 9 month old Sibe'. We had been working on her potty training since we got her. It had gotten better but I have been put on bed rest due to complications with my pregnancy and am not allowed to do anything. No chores, no walking the dogs, I can't go out, grocery shopping, etc. all of it is supposed to be deligated. The only reason I'm not on hospital bed rest is because I'm not far enough along. Over the summer we had a lot of trouble with potty training. She has been kennel trained but shortly after brining her home we found she was totally fine going to the bathroom in her kennel, eating our of her food dish (we'd put her food in there) and she'd push the dish around her kennel into poop, etc. still eat of it! I remember I'd also wake to find she had gone in her kennel, and then laid right down in it went to sleep. Not a peep from her.

Over the summer months that started to change. Took some work to figure out her schedule, for the longest time I didn't think she had one. I started to feed her on a set schedule, see when she'd use the bathroom. She started crying in her kennel at night when she'd go, and not wanting to sleep in it - THANKFULLY. All of this had gotten better, progressing well during the time I was in the process of making a schedule on when to take her out regularly enough that she wouldn't go. By early August we had it pretty good. I would take her out in the morning when daughter would go to school, then in the afternoon, the evening, and in the middle of the night depending when my husband got home.

The trouble is now it seems she's just about reverted back almost completely. My husband works evening/nights. He gets off usually at 12:30 A.M., sometimes earlier and is up until 4-5 A.M. Due to my bed rest he has had to take over the things I would do, so taking our daughter to school in the morning by 7:55, picking her up from school before he has work, walking dogs, all has to be him now. He also is a full time student through an online school. It's A LOT and I know it is. He doesn't have a set schedule himself and tells me quite a bit how he doesn't have enough time to get everything done. To be honest it's because he will spend too much time gaming, or doing something and then when he HAS to get up to do something needing to be done he gets upset. I know that he doesn't want to walk her. He does walk her, but it's not consistent enough. It's not every morning, it's not every night. There isn't a schedule for her. Now when she does get to go out, she may go/not go and still come inside and go to the bathroom inside. So he feels like, "Why walk her if she will just continue doing this?" My point is that it's rough, time consuming, takes time for her to learn it, but she WILL get it. She needs a routine, she's needs it to be consistent. She doesn't know what's expected of her, I feel like. You can't walk a dog one day and then not walk them the same time (even remotely close in time) the next few days and then get mad when she goes at times that she would have been walked. I feel like if he just gives her a time for her body clock so to speak to know when it's time to go then she'll wait.

He just gets angry and tells me to find her a new home. He says he doesn't have time. I told him I'd come on here and see if anyone had any ideas? I don't want to rehome her for a temporary situation. I'm 21 weeks along, and I don't know how long I will be on bed rest. The doctor seemed to think that it would be basically until the end of the pregnancy, whenever that is but I am expected to go into labor early but it's not impossible for me to go close to term. I don't have anyone who can take her for us for however long that is. (I'm due in February). I explained if he would be open to getting her on a schedule, and what others had to say would he do it and he said, "fine.". I'm torn. Again I don't want to rehome her for a temporary situation, but at the same time I want and know she needs a schedule, to be worked with so she can use the bathroom outside and not inside. :/ I had taken someone's advice over the summer and she spends almost all her time out of the kennel. She will still go on the floor though. If she's in her kennel, she will sleep in it after she smears it. Almost 100% when we're sleeping, or if i put her in there when i get in the shower or I leave for doctor appointments and she wasn't walked. :/ I want to do what's right for her. I'm afraid if I rehome her that someone won't take care of her. We love her, I took care of her and do but I can't walk her/give her the exercise through walks that she needs. Again it's temporary and that's another part I'm having trouble with. If I rehome her I can't get her back. We had discussed this early on and he was on board (walking her). Just looking for advice on what to do, and tips on the potty training. Is it true that it would be better just to rehome her?

Possible to hire a dog walker?  Contact the local spca for a volunteer that could help?  A Siberian husky rescue in your area that mint help?

Ashley, we seem to have a small collection of Husky's and Husky owners around the Colorado area. if you'd consider it, I'd be willing to bet that someone up there would be willing to foster her - even with her cantankerousness - until you can bring her back home.
As Amy suggested, you might be able to find on of the rescues in the area that would keep her until you're able to get up and around again.

You seem to have a pretty good handle on what she needs - that operation on a schedule is an important one for a puppy. I might suggest that she has too much room in the crate (you call it a kennel. same difference). She should have just enough room to lay down, no more.

Any one in the Denver area open to keeping a pup for a while??