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dealing w/ puppy?
Hello! So, we just bought a beagle puppy (10 weeks old) last Friday and these last couple of days have been crazy! She absolutely refuses to sleep in her crate at night and just cries all night long, keeping Jim awake and grumpy all night. Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing w/ this? I figure that she will eventually grow out of this, but dealing with a grumpy husband is not fun in the meantime!
Re: dealing w/ puppy?
We had that trouble with our little guy at first. We have a Great Dane and started him out in the giant crate, but he was only 8 pounds at the time. We discovered that if he was in a smaller crate, suitable to his size, he did much better.
First, we put him in a cardboard box (with high walls) next to my side of the bed. Not ideal, but okay for a couple of weeks. Then, we found a smaller crate on craigslist that had a divider. We could make the crate just large enough for our puppy to stand up and sleep stretched out.
By using a smaller crate and locating it close to me, he did just fine, and the change was immediate. At 130 pounds (9 months old), he still sleeps in his crate on the opposite side of the bedroom. He loves it and goes in voluntarily each night.
I adopted an adult dog, who had such severe separation anxiety when left home alone, that she would tear doorknobs off to get out & jumped out of a 2nd story window. So for her own safety (& to keep our house in one piece), we began crating her. I had a trainer come in & help.
Some suggestions--I don't know if these are relelvant for a puppy at night, but they might help:
Cover the crate with a blanket -- makes it cozier & more secure
Give her a really cool "toy" to keep her occupied - ours gets a kong with treats inside & smeared with peanut butter.
Make sure the dog goes in & out of the crate throughout the day, so she doesn't associate it just with your being away (or going to bed, in your case). We keep the door to the crate open, we toss treats in there, so she doesn't think of it as a "bad" place. At the beginning, the trainer also told us to feed her in her crate so it's a "happier" place.
when we got max he would cry at night because he wasn't used to being alone (we got him from a breeder)- i put him in a cage next to my side of the bed & he only cried for the first couple nights- however every time he started i would tap his nose & tell him no. he figured it out pretty quickly. after about a month we were able to move him to the kitchen (right outside our bedroom) and he was fine.
cessna didn't cry at all, thankfully. i guess she was used to being alone becaue of the pet store. poor thing. plus, she had max so she was happy.
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We too had the same problem with our lab puppy. I found that he hated to be alone (we rescued him at 5 weeks). We tried everything the smells, the clocks, the stuffed toys nothing working. We solved it by buying a big fluffy dog bed and putting it right beside our bed... the first night we had to put him back on the bed a couple of times as he tried to roam (each time we did we just said "BED") by the third night he was sleeping like a baby and in fact will sleep till 9 or 10 in the morning if we let him unlike my friends dogs who are crated all night long and wake up at 5 am. He also gets a treat each night before bed when hes on his bed. Anyways we did this when we got our second dog as well (she was 12 weeks) and again it worked. Both my dogs sleep on their beds in our room all night. They only go in their crates when we leave the house! My vet said while dogs do love their crates some just prefer to sleep near there owners
PS.... just make sure your room floor is clear of shoes or anything else your little guy can get into if he does roam in the middle of the night.