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Originally Posted by northview5 I KNOW what you're talking about. I couldn't tell by what you wrote if you've tried to kennel train her. With our first, he barked his head off in there and I gave up and brought him into bed with me... I loved it, but later it ended up contributing to TERRIBLE seperation anxiety problems (You DON'T want to end up with THAT!). He never did stop barking. Barked at people, barked when we left him, barked 'til he lost his voice! When we got our second Yorkie we determined to kennel train him at night 'cause of the good we'd heard about it. He, too, barked his head off. We lost tons of sleep and it nearly frustrated us to death, but after a week he stopped. He did relapse again, but got over it faster. Now he loves his kennel and is a SUPER dog! I would highly encourage you to stick it out! Believe me - I sympathize.
As to the collar - I tried it and it didn't work. First off it was too big for a Yorkie's neck (and my guy was 20lbs! LOL!) Ee just learned to hang his head a bit so it wouldn't touch him. Secondly I didn't like how it depressed him. It made him so sad! I hated seeing his happy personality dampered.
Best wishes! Allison |
Allison, when you say kennel trained, do you mean crate trained? She is crate trained during the day since we're in the midst of potty training but she's put in an ex pen during the day while we work since we're not home to walk her during the day and we both work way too far to come home. In the middle of the night, we put her in the ex pen as well since I don't want (shame on me) to get up in the middle of the night to take her out. so she goes on her pads until she is old enough to hold it for 8 hours.