Desperate, please help

[SinclairSpectrum]

Puppy is great, 9 weeks old, had him a week.
I put him in crate daily while I do school run, 30 mins tops, only to come back EVERY DAY to find he has had diarrhoea type poo all over crate, himself, surrounding floor through bars etc.
Admit to crying whilst scrubbing every little wire tonight.
What should I do??

Aww. That's great news.

Yay! Well done

I've got to say, we never used a crate (I grew up with dogs and it's just something we never found necessary).

Since our downstairs is pretty open plan though we did use a playpen when we went out for the first few months and he didn't find this too confining or stressful. Maybe something to think about? Good luck!

Think it was being left rather than where he was left with hindsight.
He isn't quite as much of a shadow, happy to stay in one place while I move from room to room now.
Gets popped in crate regularly, sometimes door open, sometimes shut, I vary anywhere between 1 and 10 mins with it shut. He still makes a noise when i leave the room but its more of a grumble than a whine and it stops straight away then he curls up and goes to sleep. Never soiled in crate since my OP.

That's huge progress in a short space of time :) well done!