Crating and weekends

[mrsmac]

We just got a 7 week old border collie/shepherd. She has been crated the two days we've had her, from about 8 to about 4. She's been doing well not peeing in her crate (we have a super yard around the crate with some puppy pads and she's peed there).
I'm wondering if having her out of the crate on weekends will confuse her when we're trying to train her to hold her bladder all day in the crate.
This is all so new and so very confusing (and frustrating at times). I think it may be worse than having a newborn baby!!!!!

[mrsmac]

I don't believe I stated my intention was to crate her on weekends.
My question was merely if it confuses a crated dog to have a different schedule of crating on weekends.

[maris63]

I have two Australian Shepherds and they adjusted just fine to different crating schedules. We crated less on the weekends but still used it for naps. Now we are at the point where we only use the crates when we leave the house...which is always at different times, for different lengths (never more than a couple hours.)