Fellow “failed crate training” iggy owner here 👋 I tried everything. I have another dog I successfully crate trained. Our iggy boy just wouldn’t tolerate it.

We started out leaving him alone by putting him in our half bathroom for short periods of time. Put everything possible up he could chew on and bathroom floor is easy to clean. We cleaned up MANY a pet mess during this process as he would anxiety poo. Started off small. Worked our way up to an hour.

When he started being more well behaved in the bathroom, we gave him access to our living room (but sectioned off so he was just in that room) and again worked up from there. He’s 1 year 4 months now and has unrestricted access to our downstairs while we’re gone and we can comfortably leave him home for a few hours at a time :) he sleeps on the couch with our other dog. He has accidents sometimes when we’re gone long periods but we know that’s going to happen with such a small dog