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Since I've had Mahina she's been in her crate at night, she only cried the first two nights. She will even go into her crate by herself when she's tired. She never woke up in the middle of the night to go potty. I woke her up and she was sleepy and wouldn't really wanna do anything. So I stopped taking her out and I knew she'd bark if she needed out.

Well, now she seems to whine when she goes in her crate, if I put her in there and lock the door. She'll whine for a few minutes and give up. I go to bed around 11 and then around 3-4am she'll bark, growl, whine and scratch. So I let her out and she doesn't go straight for the potty pad she tries to go to my bed! Not to pee, but to sleep! I continually put her on the pad and she'll go.

She refuses to go back in her crate as she'll whine and bark and bark. So I never put her back in after that first incident because she's so loud and I of course just want to sleep. So she goes to my bed and will sleep with me until I wake up.

Now, is this bad? If I want her to be crate trained should I just put her in there and deal with the barking at 3am when I just wanna go to sleep because I have school in the morning? I wake up two hours before I even have to leave(at 6 or 7 am depending on the day) so I could play with her, make sure she eats, get her nice and tired also.

Should I just leave the crate door open and let her choose where to sleep? Or should I just let her sleep with me? One of my cats already sleeps with me at night. Am I just giving in and spoiling her? I'm so confused as to what to do. What do you do? She's 3.5 months old.