I got my baby Mia on Saturday, and I am having problems. She is about 9-10 weeks old. First of all she does not let me out of her sight. When she is upstairs, if I go downstairs, she starts barking at the top of her lungs right in front of the staircase because she doesn't know how to go down the stairs yet (its very cute actually). If she is on my bed, and I go into the bathroom, she starts barking and crying again because she can't jump down yet even though our bed is pretty close to the ground. She can see me (as I take my lenses off in the bathroom) from the bed, and she stops barking when I come sit on the bed. So its not like she needs to go potty or something When we put her in the crate at night, she doesn't stop barking and we don't have the luxury to let her bark because of our neighbors. After I spent two nights sleeping on the bathroom floor (because we wanted to keep her in the crate at night, and we did not want our neighbor at our door, so we put her crate in the bathroom and I did not feel right leaving her alone), I let her sleep on the bed last night. When she slept at the foot of my bed, she didn't even wake up for her once-every-three-hour potty session. She actually slept 8 hours straight!
She is such a meanie. I just can't stand it when she barks and cries because (1) she is a cute little baby, (2) I really can't stand the noise after 5 mins. Just when I think she has stopped, she starts again and it drives me insane. Plus the neighbor issue, as mentioned above.
While I can spend all my time with her for now, that won't be the case for the next 15+ years (may God let her live that long). I want her to be able to stay in her crate, all by herself, for at least 30 mins. I am considering booking a hotel room for a couple of days in order to let her bark her lungs out to train her, but is that the way to go?
Please help.