[redvalaria]

This, unfortunately is one of the reasons so many people urged asking her breeder to keep Sadie longer.

She misses her littermates and mother. She doesn't have THEM to teach her proper dog manners or when/where to do things.

You have a newborn. You are going to get up for at least a few more weeks. Her bladder is the size of a lima bean, there is no way she can hold it 8 hours yet. Part of the training process is training yourself to do things: take her out every hour during the day (potty training! yeah!), scold her when she chews innapropriately. If she chews on your fingers do NOT put them in her crate. A puppy experiences the world through her mouth, so, stop giving her innappropriate chew toys (it would be like saying "hey, don't eat this lovely ice cream sundae even though I locked you in a box with it" to us).

Does her crate have something for her to "snuggle into"? I used a shirt of mine as well as a rolled side pad AND a recieving blanket her breeder sent with her. He had the smells of "home" and "new home" all surrounding him and he learned to comfort himself by snuggling down into them.

I covered Fergus's crate with a thin blanket because if he could SEE me, he wanted to be held/played with. If I put him in and covered him (like a parrot) he went back to sleep, no stimulation.

Good luck. Remember, she is an infant you have taken from her mother and she does NOT understand it yet!