Gracie has slept with me since her first night here. I have never done crate training. She has always slept through the night. I think it is because she had a warm body to sleep next to. I would take her right to the pee pad when she woke up. I have pet steps that she uses to get up and down off the bed now that she is old enough to mange them. I was raised with dogs having free reign of the house so crate training in not something I am used to. Even when I still worked outside the home our puppy was confined to the kitchen when we were gone until he was old enough to be trusted with free reign but he slept with me at night. Now that Gracie is grown up she does sometimes get up to go check things out if she hears a cat moving around but mostly she sleeps until daylight. |