All night barking, help!

[sherjoy]

Originally Posted by Jaxx

Two people have given you great suggestions, putting something you have worn in the crate and the snuggle puppy in the crate. The puppy is missing his mom and siblings that he has always slept with. Now he is in a strange place all alone so he has to be nervous . The snuggle puppy has a hearbeat and a warmer in it so it is the temp of his siblings.
Also, make sure you play with him a lot before bedtime so he is tired enough and hasn't been napping in the hours right before bedtime.
Also, he will need to get out at least once, maybe twice, during the night to go pee.
It won't take him too long to start liking his crate.
Leave the door open on the crate and keep a favorite toy or treat in there so he will learn to go in and out on his own and learn to like it more also.

Where do you find the described "snuggle puppy?"

[Linda8416]

Thank you all for your help.

It has been a few days now, and he's getting ALOT better with the crate. Now, as soon as I put him in, he falls right to sleep.

During the day he is alone until 3ish when my little sister "dog sits..."..So he gets lots of attention and gets to walk around and play.

I cant sleep with him (I would) bc my husband would definitley squish him... and I wouldnt be able to sleep making sure my poor baby doesnt get smashed.. :-)

Im going to try leaving the crate open during the night, although, i wake up in the middle of the night to let him out to potty.. Everything is falling into place!

thank you guys!!

[ketters12]

Originally Posted by Linda8416

Hey all!

I just bought a 2 month old yorkie two days ago (over the weekend). I am trying to train him to use his little crate as his home during the day while I am at work. However, during the night for the past two nights, he is NON STOP barking, ALLL NIGHT LONG. What should I do to make him feel comfortable? The crate i have him in is A VERY BIG CRATe, as im using one that i used for one of my pitbulls.

As soon as i take him out the crate, he falls right asleep! It's driving me crazy.

If anyone, just anyone, has been thru this or has any ideas; please help. Im losing it..

Thanks so much,
Merari

My personal advice- get a SMALL crate. He probably will feel more secure for one thing. put a t-shirt of yours in it. and then what I did with Tobey was I cleared off my nightstand and put his crate on it, with the opening facing me. That way I could still do the crate training/ potty training method because I would hear him whine to go potty, but after he would potty and I would put him back in, if he whined, I knew it was only to try and get out. I just ignored him or said in a low semi-soft voice "quiet". It worked wonderfully!! During the day he was gated in our kitchen with potty pads, food, water, etc.

after only 16 weeks he was fully potty trained to potty pads to the point that we started letting him sleep in our bed and he would hop down in the middle of the night, go into the room with his potty pad and do his thing, and then come back to bed!! It's been that way ever since!! He's the greatest!