Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! I have a Bella too!!! ;D She's 14 weeks and a lovely milk chocolate. She spends some time during the day in her crate with my husband at work...started out with small bits of time in there, and has lengthened to longer stretches over the weeks. At night, at my husbands insistence...she sleeps with us on the bed : the first few weeks (we got her at 7wks old), she was up every couple of hours and I took her outside to go potty. Over time she has stretched out her potty breaks and she only gets up once a night...and not every night. We've been battling a UTI/vaginitis with her for a few weeks, so the middle of the night potty break is necessary. She is otherwise mostly house trained - any accidents are OUR fault, not hers. It does get better....hang in there!
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! Hi im new to this but here goes My puppy Riley is 14 weeks old and never sleeps in her crate thru the day only goes in at night with a few treats. The crate is in the living room as she freaked out when it was in the kitchen when we brought her home. My problem is she barks and whines for about half an hour after we have left her to go to our beds we dont go down to her usually and she settles but recently after a worming tablet she wasnt well and upset so i went down to her fearing she would be sick and stayed with her for the rest of the night as she wouldnt go back into her crate This morning she woke at 3.30 and wouldnt settle so i had to get up let her out and she created so much j had to stay with her so the reat of the family could sleep. Im now thinking of putting her into the kitchen having the crate door open and shutting the kitchen door. Im so tired Looking for advise plz
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! Welcome to you In my view they are all different, My (2 year old) Tatze still adores her crate. Gypsy (10 months) always hated it, I worked hard to get her to like it with all suggestions - but it never really worked, so I got her a puppy pen. She never looked back.
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! Hi there! Maisie hated her crate as well and like Mags tried very hard to get her to like it, but to no avail. At about 5 months I decrated her and she slept reasonably well in the utility room for a while, but she wasn't completely happy until she was allowed to sleep in our room! : She now sleeps contentedly through the night (sometimes tries it on in the early hours and gets on our bed, but gets thrown off!) and now sleeps until I get up, I never thought I'd say that! Lack of sleep is awful, those early weeks are such a trial and I wish I had removed the crate earlier.
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! PS - Gypsy is decrated now but still sleeps downstairs, Tatze won't let me leave her until the crate door is closed
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! Debs, where in your bedroom does she sleep? On the floor? On a blanket? On a doggie bed? I would like to have my 13 month old Cooper sleep in my bedroom but he hates his large and expensive doggie bed!!! wants to rip it apart.....but maybe he wouldnt mind carpeting....dont know. I really dont want him in my bed though.
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! [quote author=Yvonne link=topic=9113.msg156802#msg156802 date=1429126644] Debs, where in your bedroom does she sleep? On the floor? On a blanket? On a doggie bed? I would like to have my 13 month old Cooper sleep in my bedroom but he hates his large and expensive doggie bed!!! wants to rip it apart.....but maybe he wouldnt mind carpeting....dont know. I really dont want him in my bed though. [/quote] hi Yvonne, she sleeps on the floor in a soft sided large bed with an old duvet inside! I allow her on the bed in the morning from about 5am which is when she wakes and then she settlss down until I get up. Not what I'd planned, but she is so much happier and more relaxed being with us.
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! Maisie will sleep on the floor if there is a blanket or even a towel laid down, so if he doesn't like his bed, you could try buying a cheap used blanket or one of your old blankets or duvets that you don't mind allowing to "go to the dogs" and try that as a bed for him? That way if he rips it up, oh well, no loss. Funnily enough, after I have stopped crating Maisie while I'm gone (she's now in a puppy pen with a big dog bed, toys, water, the works, or even sometimes LOOSE if I'm gone 15 minutes or so) she now has slept in her crate several times of her own free will!! So odd. She very rarely would do that when she was crated on a regular basis and over the last few days, she chooses to nap in there sometimes (most of the time she sleeps on the couch by me).
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! Another suggestion. Which I have had success with. Find, or even buy from a Charity shop, an old t shirt shirt or similar that you don't want. Wear it. I even slept in it. Place it in dog's bed. They seem comforted by your smell.
Re: Whining / Barking when in crate - help please! [quote author=Mollly link=topic=9113.msg156868#msg156868 date=1429174233] Another suggestion. Which I have had success with. Find, or even buy from a Charity shop, an old t shirt shirt or similar that you don't want. Wear it. I even slept in it. Place it in dog's bed. They seem comforted by your smell. [/quote] DEFINITELY second that ! I started this thread, seems yonks ago now!!, suppose it was!! My old tops worked a treat. She no longer needs them anymore but at the time that seemed to be the key good luck ;D
