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09-16-2014, 06:50 PM | #1 |
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| help?!?!? everynight my yorkie will not quit whining i feed her take her out to potty and make sure she has water before bed and play with her and she has bones to chew but she still whines... what do i do? its keeping me awake at night.. please someone help me? |
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09-16-2014, 07:03 PM | #2 |
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09-16-2014, 07:04 PM | #3 |
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| She probably doesn't like being alone. Try taking her to bed with you. She most likely just wants to be near you. Where does she sleep currently? Some members here have the crate or xpen in their room if they don't want them actually on the bed. My ZoE cried for the first couple of nights and I was getting up multiple times to quiet her down. By the third night (she was exactly 6 weeks & 3 days old), I was absolutely exhausted and took her to bed to cuddle with me for a bit. She's been there ever since.
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09-16-2014, 07:20 PM | #4 |
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| 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.
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09-16-2014, 08:30 PM | #5 |
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| she sleeps in bed with me every night and its just a constant whine and i cant ever figure out whats wrong |
09-17-2014, 12:11 PM | #6 |
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| Hmm the pup is in bed with you and is still crying? Is this a new pup? Or is she older than six months? Usually by the dogs will be firmly integrated into your family. Is she crying for food? Is she frightened if something? My dogs will sometimes forget what time it is and bark and whine for a treat but that's not every night Is she biting and licking at something? She might be uncomfortable and is crying because of that Have a vet look her over and see if the problem is not physical
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09-17-2014, 05:00 PM | #7 | |
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she is 2 almost 3 years old. she sleeps in bed right beside me every night... she has an itching/allergy problem and is on prescription antihistamines for it | |
09-18-2014, 06:33 AM | #8 |
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| Is she scratching and trying to reach the itchy places during the whining or perhaps whining because she's itching places she cannot reach to scratch? Besides her whining, what else is she doing in bed? Since she does this while in bed with you, I'd try to get the session on video for a couple of nights and then get her back to the vet to see if they think she's suffering and another check up. It could just be the whining is merely a habit she's acquired and she thinks it's the normal thing to do but I'd be more concerned now with her medical condition that she's possibly more aware of her medical problem once the house is quiet and bedtime here. She could be suffering(as severe, unremitting itching that a dog senses it has no control over is said to be as physically and psychologically hard for them to deal with as actual pain) so I'd get her in for a recheck and dermatologist consult if she's not already seeing one. And if she is and he can't help her and you feel she's suffering, I'd take her to an internist for a full check up and blood tests and a new dermatologist.
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09-18-2014, 07:58 AM | #9 |
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| There it is. She's uncomfortable and she's crying because whatever her skin condition is doing its preventing her from sleeping Get her to her vet and tell the vet specifically what's happening every night The vet via a mix of topical and antihistaminics will get her comfortable enough where she can rest without complaining ... Because basically that's what's she's doing
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