Constant crying... Up All Night

[F51598]

Hello Everyone, I am new to this site so please forgive me for any mistakes I might make here.

Hi all. I recently adopted a 9 wk old Yorkie and he is such a loveable little guy, but crate training is rough going. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it is normal for a puppy to cry non-stop all night long? I have taken him out to potty right before putting him in the kennel and he usually goes so I know it is not that and I have put him in my room next to the bed so he can see me as well as in another room with other dogs, but he still cries non-stop.

Will this end in a couple weeks to a month or am I going to have a puppy who hates the kennel? I am welcome to any suggests...


I posted this as a reply to another thread too, sorry. I just figured out how to post new threads.

[BLowry]

Welcome to YT and Congrats on your new puppy! Some puppies do cry when you first bring them home...I have 3 of them (2 females are adults now and we just got Bentley...he was 5 months old when we got him...7 months old now)and only one of them cried at night...The girls sleep with us now but Bentley is tiny and will probably stay in a crate to sleep...This is what I did,..make sure the crate isn't too big...I have a nice fluffy bed pulled up to the front of the crate. The breeder gave me a blanket with the scent of his mom on it,..and a soft toy...I put these in the crate with him..I took a good sized blanket and kind of made a circle with it so he would be really cozy...I put an old blanket over the crate..The crate is in our bedroom...He has never cried..Lillie was the one that gave us a hard time...I did the same thing for her but she was much younger (too young actually)...took her a couple of weeks before she completely stopped the whining...I'm sure others will reply to this with other ideas....this did work for me though...your just going to have to put up with the whining and crying for a while until he/she gets used to it...Good Luck!

[gracielove]

Your puppy is very young and of course is very homesick for it's mom and litter mates that he is used to sleeping with. It is very difficult for a young one to learn to sleep alone at this point. Little puppies also have very small bladders that need to be emptied more often.

I'm no expert at crate training. I have failed it every time I've tried it. Maybe try to get your puppy very tired before bedtime. No naps. When he is tired put him in his sleeping area and turn off the lights and be sure it is quiet.

Remember that a puppy's bladder does not have the ability to hold back urine until it is at least 16 weeks old and that is only a start. You have some busy times ahead.

[R_Z]

I dont have any answers for you on this. Hopefully in time things will get better for you. Good luck.

[Teresa Ford]

Welcome to YT. Nine weeks is very young. I would think a Vet check to make sure all is ok. Then buy ear plugs to use for about a week or so. Sorry I am not teasing. When we have pups we begin putting them in their own sleeping crate at night at age 7 weeks and they usually cry about 3 or 4 nights. Then they begin love their private little space. I let them nap in it too. Going in their crate means a treat, chew toys, or a special squeaky toy they only get when in their crate. My pups also get their own blanket with Mama sent on it. If you use a stuffed heart beat toy make sure it is chew safe. So when they go to their forever home at 12 weeks (or older) they are pretty much crate trained.

[Lovetodream88]

Well your pup is very young and should still be with his mom for a few more weeks so the changed maybe tougher on him. He may need something they call and snuggle pup. The best thing to do is take him potty put him in the crate and ignore the crying and if he stops and a few hours starts again take him potty and then put him back. A new puppy is a lot of work so good luck.

[carmen in nj]

ok this is how I do besides I start crate training at 7 weeks, the pups get move from the day pen to the night crate so they get use to the crate, with the crate in your bedroom, cover the crate, make sure the pad is soft,
this is how my dogs crate look,
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/IMG_0282.jpg

did your breeder gave you a blanket with your baby that smells like the litter and mama? if not then get a t shirt and put it on and wear it to sleep one day, and that will be his favorite crate blanket, my yorkie still carries around the piece of fleece i got from he breeder 3 years ago. I also recomend to my puppy parent to invest in a bottle of Confort zone, it helps with dogs stress, i have a diffuser in my bedroom, which I share with my pack and right now a litter of 6 .
let me know if you have any specific questions, also when you put your baby to bed, give him a lil piece of a treat, that way he/she will associate the crate with a good thing..
Some breeders dont think about the well being of the puppy and the human once they let their pups go.. cover the crate with a light piece of fabric and give him a piece of your clothing while you make one that will belong to him/her. also if you have a stuff toy it will help, litters sleep very close together your pup is just feeling lonely..

hugs,

[KazzyK810]

I tried to crate ZoE at bedtime and broke the third night and just took her to bed with me. She's been there every night since.

But, now here's the strange part....I still have her crate sitting out and there are times that she will just take herself of to it and go nap in there! And she goes in there when she wants to get away from things...people visiting, the vacuum cleaner, etc. So, a rough start doesn't necessarily mean your puppy will hate the crate.

Congratulations on your new puppy. Does he have a name?

[judyp515]

I bought a little stuffed toy with a heartbeat in it and my dog slept on top of it in his kennel. I put him in a large kennel at first with a piddle pad at one end in case he needed it at night. I trained both my yorkies this way and never had a problem with them. My oldest is 4 and he still carries his stuffed toy around at times. Good luck!

[Denzilla]

Be patient and he will probably get used to it.

[Sandysbabies]

I fed my little ones Gerber rice cereal mixed with warm Carnation milk, deluted. They never cried at nite with their little tummies full. Not everyone probably would agree with doing this, but it worked for us. They are just babies and it takes alot of love and patience. Good luck with you little one. Bless its little heart, it misses its litter mates and mama.

[GypsyVille]

With my little one I realized how important that little security blanket was.

My little girl was 8 months old when I brought her home. I tried everything with her that always worked for my Rottweilers. I had a play session before bed to make sure she was tired, I made sure she was pottied out, I put her crate on a nightstand next to my bed, I covered the crate, I turned the tv on and I gave her a beef rib bone to chew on for the night....and she cired all night.

This went on everynight for two weeks and I was exhausted. My Husband decided he was going to stay up with her one night so I could sleep. We have an enclosed porch and we both keep a pair of shoes on the porch so we can get the dogs outside quickly if need be. So my Husband opened the door going out to the porch and He said she went on to the porch and curled up on my shoes and layed down. He finished putting his shoes on and then picked her up to go outside. He brought her back in and she cried again. So again he opened the porch door and she went and layed on my shoes. He then went and got her crate from our room and put one shoe in the crate. She went in her crate all by herself and didn't make a peep. My husband then closed her crate door and brought her crate back to the bedroom. Again not a peep the entire night. We have since put the other shoe in her bed. As long as she has those shoes she is happy. We realized later that those were the shoes I was wearing the day I brought her home. We think that she can smell the other dogs she lived with on those shoes.

[carmen in nj]

Originally Posted by GypsyVille

With my little one I realized how important that little security blanket was.

My little girl was 8 months old when I brought her home. I tried everything with her that always worked for my Rottweilers. I had a play session before bed to make sure she was tired, I made sure she was pottied out, I put her crate on a nightstand next to my bed, I covered the crate, I turned the tv on and I gave her a beef rib bone to chew on for the night....and she cired all night.

This went on everynight for two weeks and I was exhausted. My Husband decided he was going to stay up with her one night so I could sleep. We have an enclosed porch and we both keep a pair of shoes on the porch so we can get the dogs outside quickly if need be. So my Husband opened the door going out to the porch and He said she went on to the porch and curled up on my shoes and layed down. He finished putting his shoes on and then picked her up to go outside. He brought her back in and she cried again. So again he opened the porch door and she went and layed on my shoes. He then went and got her crate from our room and put one shoe in the crate. She went in her crate all by herself and didn't make a peep. My husband then closed her crate door and brought her crate back to the bedroom. Again not a peep the entire night. We have since put the other shoe in her bed. As long as she has those shoes she is happy. We realized later that those were the shoes I was wearing the day I brought her home. We think that she can smell the other dogs she lived with on those shoes.

YES!! a good breeder would NEVER send a puppy home without a security toy and blanket, that is been used with the litter and the mom, I make special blankets for the puppies, My mom's Ruby is 8 months and she comes to visit me and she gets to play with her mom and dad and sibbligs that live here, and last christmas she fell in love with her mom's t shirt, well my mom took the t shirt home and LiL Ruby carries it around the house , sleeps with it, in her crate, I also send a washable small pad that the litter has used, so the puppy knows that is where she is supose to go potty.. my puppy parents have been very sucessful training their pups due to the heads start i give them,Happy humans means happy puppies..
so if you are going to get a pup talk to your breeder about a security blanket and a washable pee pad ..
hugs,

P/s .. all items are washed well before they go home, but the puppy still able to smell his family in the items... which is really good..

[Alvindy]

It seems extra bad right now b/c you are tired. Norman cried in the night to go to the bathroom - his bladder was just too small to last the whole night. We would get him up half way through the night for a 'squirt' and then right back into the crate - of course there was a 'back step' when my DH brought him into our bed after the squirt (big mistake b/c he wanted to be there all the time).
As others have mentioned the crate s/b small, like a cave. He has his blankie from the breeder in there and we cover the crate with another blanket so it's cozy.
Good Luck - everyone on YT is so helpful and cares, so remember that you aren't alone - many Yters have been through this also! Soon this will be a distant memory...

[GypsyVille]

Originally Posted by carmen in nj

YES!! a good breeder would NEVER send a puppy home without a security toy and blanket, that is been used with the litter and the mom, I make special blankets for the puppies, My mom's Ruby is 8 months and she comes to visit me and she gets to play with her mom and dad and sibbligs that live here, and last christmas she fell in love with her mom's t shirt, well my mom took the t shirt home and LiL Ruby carries it around the house , sleeps with it, in her crate, I also send a washable small pad that the litter has used, so the puppy knows that is where she is supose to go potty.. my puppy parents have been very sucessful training their pups due to the heads start i give them,Happy humans means happy puppies..
so if you are going to get a pup talk to your breeder about a security blanket and a washable pee pad ..
hugs,

P/s .. all items are washed well before they go home, but the puppy still able to smell his family in the items... which is really good..

From here on out I will always make That the breeder will either provide the security blanket or I will send her something for the puppy to have while I wait for her to come home.

Delilah was been a huge learning experience for me. I thought I was strickly going to be a life long Rottweiler only person until Delilah. When we got her we weren't looking for a dog. She basically came from a hoarding situation. I brought her home thinking I would get her into a rescue and tell the rescue about the rest of the dogs at the home hoping to help them. In the meantime Delilah and my Rottweiler Adria became inseperable and we decided to keep her. My Rottweilers Breeder has tried to give me advice for Delilah but little dogs is new to both of us..lol. As I am getting to know Delilah I think I am getting bit by the yorkie bug and can already see myself with another...