Bentley has just started to develop this. He's just 5.5 months old, but ever since he was sick and had diarrhea in his crate, he just doesn't want to spend the night in it. He might go in there and spend a couple of hours during the day, but at night we have to take him out and put him in his day bed that we keep in the family room (we keep him in the kitchen).
What I had been doing, in order to get a good night's sleep, was taking him out of his crate, putting a leash on him, taking him to the family room and putting him on his day bed. I then hooked the leash around my ankle and slept on the couch. Last night I needed my bed too much, so I brought his day bed into the kitchen, put the leash on him, attached it to something stationary, and let him sleep in the day bed. He slept until 6:30am. |