Please help..new 8 week old V

Superhoops said:

Hi All, 1st posted and desperate! Thanks for this forum I am about to start crate training today properly doing 15-30 minutes with her closing the door and waiting for her to calm down before treating and letting out and repeat. At night she is in the living room in a crate and I've made a temporary bed to stay with her. Goes down about 10pm and wakes every two hours. I take her out for a wee (which she doesnt) with no interaction and put her back in but cant shut door until she is asleep. Repeats every two hours until 5am then she just cries in there. Basically, should I even be in the room AND should I try and ignore the crying when she first wakes around midnight? Any help would be appreciated.... I've not got to the biting or potty training yet !! This seems the most important thing for everyones sanity !! Thanks Dan

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Superhoops said:

Hi All, 1st posted and desperate! Thanks for this forum I am about to start crate training today properly doing 15-30 minutes with her closing the door and waiting for her to calm down before treating and letting out and repeat.

At night she is in the living room in a crate and I've made a temporary bed to stay with her. Goes down about 10pm and wakes every two hours. I take her out for a wee (which she doesnt) with no interaction and put her back in but cant shut door until she is asleep. Repeats every two hours until 5am then she just cries in there.

Basically, should I even be in the room AND should I try and ignore the crying when she first wakes around midnight?

Any help would be appreciated.... I've not got to the biting or potty training yet !! This seems the most important thing for everyones sanity !!


Thanks
Dan

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Hi, we have been extremely luck with our girl and never ever skipped a night for wee training or for intensive crying BUT sleeping with her really helped. The first week I was sleeping on the floor next to her with the crate open. She was going in and out during the night to look for me and I was there. Second week I closed the door and slept on the couch next to her. When she was waking up I was just shooshing her and she was stopping pretty fast. Then in the morning around 6, when was a good time to wake up, the first thing was to run out to pipi in the garden and giving her a good treat. From the third week I was just sleeping in my bad far from her and she was rarely waking up. Another shoosh and she was good to sleep till morning.
Every dog is different but I believe that you need to find a good balance between forcing them a bit to do what they are supposed to do and comforting them being close at least at the beginning.

We had drama when we brought our boy home at 9 weeks. We started with his crate in the living room, covered it over (with ventilation) and light off. I ‘slept’ downstairs with him, he had a blanket off the breeder with mam’s scent but he wasn’t having any of it. He shouted for hours at me and it was agony. Long story short, I’ve moved his crate to our bedroom, he has a jumper of mine in there that I’ve worn all day, a night light and can see me at all times. This has worked a treat 😂! He wakes up at like 2am for a wee then up at 5ish which is fine because he’s only a baby I don’t mind! They do say to gradually move the crate away from you over time but I don’t know if we will bother. I also make sure every nap through the day he is in his crate in the living room (we have 2 crates) so he knows he naps in there and not on the sofa. It’s been hard but over the space of a week, 2 hours of barking has turned into 5 mins of grizzling max when he goes in his crate. Good luck!

we brought a 15 week old puppy home on Monday past and have been at my wits end with worrying bout everything. He sleeps in our room on the floor at bottom of the bed in his own bed. He’s so settled and this is the only time he gets upstairs. I seem to be his person and he follows me about everywhere. I started a little bit of crate training this morning and he took so good to it. Don’t get me wrong I’m not fooled it won’t always be so good. I have a link I used - can’t figure out how to make it “read only” but when I do I’ll post it. It’s the only advice I’m going to follow coz it’s so simple and everything else I’ve read is freaking me out 🙈 I’m starting it with door open. He loves his crate and often takes himself in but comes out when we go to different room. I think shutting it at first will be confusing and make him feel like he’s been naughty. Get him used to liking it first xx