[yorkietalkjilly]

You didn't say under what circumstances she's whining, but I'm going to assume that the problem is related to bedtime and she's crated or penned and cannot get to you in your bed and that's why she's whining. If she's whining from her crate or pen after bedtime, she likely wants to sleep with or extremely near you - like in a crate sitting in a chair right by your bed where she can see and smell you and you can reach your fingers through the wire door to touch her.

When I first got Tibbe, he wasn't yet housebroken but had terrible separation anxiety day and night so at bedtime, I put him in an airline carrier and just put it right next to me, actually in the bed, while in his carrier with a blanket and pee pad in the bottom. I could reach my fingers through and touch him and talk to him and he could see and smell me. He was a little unhappy at first but I sprinkled treats in the carrier, always told him it was "Happy Time!" when I put him in it, smiling and happy-acting and he came to look on getting into it as a good thing. If he fidgeted, I just shushed him and turned my head looking the other way so he couldn't see my face and turned it back when he stayed quiet.

He soon settled down and quit fidgeting and certainly quit the screaming and whining and went to sleep. That's all it took was his ability to sleep as near me as possible. And he learned to hold his bladder and bowels during the night hours as he didn't want to soil his airline-carrier bed. Before long, I was convinced he was able to hold himself long enough to sleep in the bed with me and I let him sleep with me sans the carrier and he did fine with some exceptions of waking me up whining during the night to go outside to potty but that soon disappeared once he developed better bladder/bowel retention with housebreaking training.

Dogs are pack animals and it's instinctive for them to want to spend the night hours either very near or actually touching members of their pack when in the wild and the fact that they are now domesticated has changed that instinct very little. Humans are the same way. We love to sleep with or near our family members at night. So the human tendency to confine dogs down the hall in a pen/crate or in another closed or fenced-off room for bedtime usually goes against their natural instincts and they begin to whine - to try to call their pack - you - to come to them and sleep with them. They know no other way.

If it's not a bedtime issue, just let us know and maybe we can try to find out what else is going on.