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We’ve recently got Rusty, he’s 9 and a half weeks old. We got him at 7 weeks due to the country about to go on lockdown. He’s been great at learning commands; Sit, Wait, Down, Paw and he even rings a bell we’ve put on the door every time he needs to go outside. But when it comes to night time we’ve not had the same luck. We started by sleeping downstairs with him (rather than him being in our room and then transferring him downstairs). We tried everything with the crate - feeding him in there, treats/kongs in there, favourite toys, blankets (inside and over the top), hot waterbottles, clothes with our scent on... He just didn’t like being in there. He loves sleeping on the end of the sofa where we have a fluffy rug over the edge so we thought we’d try our luck letting him sleep there, we’d got to the point where we thought “as long as he sleeps we don’t really care where - as long as it’s downstairs). But still no luck. He cries, howls and barks sometimes for over an hour in the middle of the night, scratching the **** out of the carpet under the door and the door itself (which now has small chunks literally clawed out the bottom edge). We wait until he settles (it’s never fully but sometimes the crying subsides for about 30 seconds) and we come down, don’t pay him attention, let him outside to relieve himself (not all the time he needs to go) and one of us has to sit on the floor next to him until he falls asleep - but he wakes up the second our hand touches lounge door to leave. Sometimes he goes back to sleep but only for about 40 minutes-an hour until the crying resumes. Other times he’s crying again before we’ve even managed to get back in bed. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated as we’re both very exhausted... Thank you!! Lucy & Lewis
We’ve recently got Rusty, he’s 9 and a half weeks old. We got him at 7 weeks due to the country about to go on lockdown. He’s been great at learning commands; Sit, Wait, Down, Paw and he even rings a bell we’ve put on the door every time he needs to go outside. But when it comes to night time we’ve not had the same luck. We started by sleeping downstairs with him (rather than him being in our room and then transferring him downstairs). We tried everything with the crate - feeding him in there, treats/kongs in there, favourite toys, blankets (inside and over the top), hot waterbottles, clothes with our scent on... He just didn’t like being in there. He loves sleeping on the end of the sofa where we have a fluffy rug over the edge so we thought we’d try our luck letting him sleep there, we’d got to the point where we thought “as long as he sleeps we don’t really care where - as long as it’s downstairs). But still no luck. He cries, howls and barks sometimes for over an hour in the middle of the night, scratching the **** out of the carpet under the door and the door itself (which now has small chunks literally clawed out the bottom edge). We wait until he settles (it’s never fully but sometimes the crying subsides for about 30 seconds) and we come down, don’t pay him attention, let him outside to relieve himself (not all the time he needs to go) and one of us has to sit on the floor next to him until he falls asleep - but he wakes up the second our hand touches lounge door to leave. Sometimes he goes back to sleep but only for about 40 minutes-an hour until the crying resumes. Other times he’s crying again before we’ve even managed to get back in bed. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated as we’re both very exhausted... Thank you!! Lucy & Lewis