[mommyof2]

Okay. So we got Dixie two days ago. She has done wonderful. Except, I don't know what to do with her at night!!

When we first got Yogi, we tried to crate him at night. He didn't like it and howled the first night. So we put him in the bathroom, with everything he could possibly need, and he was fine. Not a single peep out of him since that first night. Once he got adjusted, we started gradually putting him in his crate. Not one peep out of him and he goes right in the crate!

Dixie, on the other hand, is totally different and I don't know what to do! We tried her in her crate the first night, no way. She howled and howled and howled...so I put her in our bathroom. She howled for a little while, but quieted down. I thought we were okay. I was sooo wrong. Last night was just horrible!! We put her in the bathroom and she howled and howled and howled (we are talking over two hours). I tried her in her crate downstairs. Howled again, I moved her crate up into our bedroom right on a chair next to me and my bed, still howled! So I put her down in the bathroom again, because I can't have her howling upstairs, I have young kids. She howled all night in the bathroom, and I mean, literaly, all night.

I don't know what to do. She is fine when she is in bed with me, but I'm reluctant to start that, especially right off the bat. I don't want that to be the only way she can sleep, with me. I'm not always going to be around for her to sleep with, so I think it's good for her to get used to sleeping on her own. I just don't know what to do. On top of it, we are under a time crunch. We are going camping Friday with my parents and their camper and we are ALL sleeping in the camper. I don't know what I'm going to do if she won't sleep in her crate. We weren't planning on getting her until the last day of our camping trip (memorial day) so I wasn't too worried about it, but now that I have her, I don't know what to do.

Any advice on how to get her used to her crate and stop the howling? Sorry so long...I'm long winded.