I, too, am a teacher and have been off for the last 2 weeks. My vet told me to absolutely positively not let her out of her crate all of the hours that I am home during the summer months as it will be painful for her and I when school starts again. It has been hard, but I am trying to keep her in her crate on a consistent basis, this week. Shasta also gets me up at the crack of dawn, when I usually get up for school. I try to ignore her but am a light sleeper so I move her from the living room to the garage where it is dark. It usually works for a couple of more hours, which is plenty of time. I am a first time Yorkie owner, and everyone tells me to just ignore it, which worked to crate train her. I am now in the process of switching her over to a cage, with a divider (to keep a small area until she is potty trained), and am going through the same process I was when I started crate training. Hope any of the suggestions work. Good luck and enjoy your summer! |