bad first night
 

He's here! It's been how many months I've been emailing on this group and researching breeders! He's awesome...but I'm exhausted. No sleep last night. He would NOT settle down. All wants to do is play. He also would not pee outside (3 hours int he car and we would stop) or on the pee pads I brought. I finally put him in his crate in my room even though he wouldn't "go". I was so tired. 11pm...ugh
He whined and I was so worried about him messing himself. I thought...okay...I'll put him on the bed to calm him down and sneak him back in. I tried petting him but he was CRAZY. I went to get something...and he peed on my down comforter!!! Ugh.
I cleaned that up and put him in his crate and let him whine. He finally calmed down for a couple of hours but our pilot light went out and the house got SO cold. He started barking. I woke up because of the cold too. His bark was raspy. He is still battling a cold. I was nervous that the house was too cold and was so tired so I put him back in bed with me in the dark. He slept like an angel the whole rest of the night. VEry sweet dog.
Problem is....I am being told that I need to crate train...I gave in...and what if he jumps off the bed and hurts himself...and what if he pees again?
suzie

I never put small puppies in my be I was too afraid of them jumping or falling down. What I did was put them in a small crate and put them beside my bed so they could see me and that kept them from crying or barking.

My Mini does well in her crate ..i keep it right next to the bed also and she has never whined about being put in there. Good luck with you little one ..

Congratulations on your puppy !! I know this isn't the best advise :rolleyes: ....but I had both my girls in bed with me the first night...I got up every 2 hours for the first month and only had one accident in my bed.....I would put pillows all around the bed if you are going to have him with you.....or you can crate him and just keep him near you ?

Good luck and keep an eye on that cough....I hope its nothing serious.

The truth is the puppy is like a baby and if you start sharing your bed now he will always need to sleep with you. I know that its hard to hear him whine and lose sleep but just like a baby you are gonna lose some sleep the first couple months make sure to take his food and water up a few hours before bed and make a potty trip before bed and then put him in his crate and let him cry it out, resist the urge to yell at him, talk to him, or even look at him any attention is attention even negative attention. He may for a while get up once or twice a night o potty thats fine, take hime out let him potty and right back to bed. My hannah got up twice a night for 2 weeks then once a night for about 2 mths now she sleeps through the night with no potty breaks it just takes time. Good luck!

Great advice! And if you WANT the puppy in your bed, you can move him in LATER after he's housetrained and sleeps through the night. Remember, your goal is a completely housetrained well adjusted grown up dog who knows you are in charge. It's so much work to achieve that later if you give in now!

Puppies will fuss when put in their crate, but if it doesn't achieve anything (no attention from you) they will stop and settle down. It just takes awhile.

Enjoy your new pup, this will all be a DISTANT memory sooner than you think!

i had Cali in a playpen next to my bed with a wee wee pad at one end. She would sleep until 2 or 3 in the morning and then iwould put her in her little carrier and put her on the pillow next to me and she would go right back to sleep. When she was almost 5 months old I put her in my bed and she's been there ever since. I do have stairs nest to the bed so she can get up and down by herself. It does get better hang in there!

Yea, I tried the crate thing but my pups were in such misery that I couldn't stand it!! In bed they went. I was very nervous about Mari, being so small that I made sure she was in the middle, and I lost sleep but I LOVE her and Rico next to me, crossways, making me hug the edge :D

Angel is another story, I have only had her a month and she had ALWAYS lived in a playpen, and the breeder let her sleep with her a lot. She is 10 mos old so she is more comfortable in her crate, which is one for a 50lb dog. Also she is so fragile that I would be afraid of 'breaking' her. :aimeeyork

Congratulations!!!!!!!
Oh we so want to see LOTS of pictures!!!! :p :p :p :p

Sleeps in bed with us from nite one
 

:) I put Penny in bed with us on the first nite, surrounded the bed with pillows so she couldnt fall off. Hubby said he felt like he was sleeping on a cloud with all the pillows around, it was pretty funny!!!!

She has always slept with us from nite one. Only one accident and it was my fault, i was playing hard with her on the bed and you know how little ones cant hold it, and Whoops the pee was a running.... :(

I can't help the original poster, as I'm still trying to read and prepare myself for all this tonight!

I don't mind a dog sleeping with me, but I'm afraid of messes on the bed (JUST bought new bedding!), and, call me lazy, REALLY don't want to have to get up every two hours to try to get them to piddle! :p

Is there a problem with, as one person sort of mentioned, keeping the pup in a pen beside your bed, with just room for a bed, and a piddle pad? They don't need to eat or drink during the night, do they?

The problem is...he won't stay in a pen next to my bed or in a crate. He keeps trying to jump up and the crying is so loud...plus he is still sick from a bug he caught from a dog show. Ugh!
suzie

First congrats on your new addition. When it was our first night with Jeremiah, I kept his crate in my room and put some cover over it. If he can't see you, he won't be as rowdy. There will be a whine every once and a while.

When we got Tobias home we gave into his crying and let him sleep in the bed. We've never had a bed accident aside from an upset stomach once or twice. He would cry the entire night in the crate and we'd be awake until morning. Since then he's been in the bed every night. It's amusing now that he's all grown up he complains(growls) if we disturb him while he's sleeping in our, ops... his bed.
:mad: Don't roll over or move while you sleep! :mad:
He must know i'm talking about him, he's been really good the past day or so.

Because Topher spent a long day travelling to us in his kennel, his first night was spent in bed with us...and he slept through the night! He was tired of his kennel that day and I can't say I blame him!! I want my dog to sleep with me, so had no problem worrying about him getting used to the bed. He's only had one 'accident' in my bed days later and that's because I didn't recognize the signs that he needed to go pee. I made sure that all of my linens were washed and changed, though, before I let him back on the bed. I didn't want him to smell the bed and think that peeing was ok there!

He's slept with us ever since and goes to bed with me around 11 or so and sleeps till I wake him in the morning. He's only jumped off the bed once, and I got cross at him when he did so, so he hasn't done it since. He's a bigger boy, though (8lbs now)...even so,, he's still small to be jumping off of the bed onto the hardwood floors.

He is crate trained, also, and it's a place of comfort for him. He goes in his crate to nap during the day and he goes there when he wants to be on his own.

I think it's just a matter of preference. If you don't want your pup to sleep in bed with you, train him to stay in his crate at night. It will take a few nights for him to get used to it, but he will get used to it.

Congrats on the new pup!! It's just like having a baby in the house, that's for sure!! :)

This made me laugh because Snickers grumbles all the time if we disburb him in 'our' bed. It's really big of him to allow us to share his bed. And of course WE wake up stiff because Snickers has to sleep cross-wise and heaven forbid if he's inconvenienced! :aimeeyork

Yorkieskater, I would bring the baby in bed since he's so agitated and sick. (Just be sure he doesn't jump off.) In time you may want to gradually get him used to the crate, but I'd take this time to bond with him first. :) As someone else said, it definitely gets better, so hang in there!

My pup has slept with me (when he feels like it) - since the first night I got him. And, because he was with me, he started out sleeping 6 to 7 hours - pretty much without ever wetting. But, for sure, with the first movement from him in the morning - we went to his pee pad.

I put a belly band on him at night - just in case...and it is almost always dry in the morning.

He never fell off the bed, but I do know that's a concern. I have a low piece of furniture at the foot of my bed - and before he was three months old, he learned to get on and off the bed using that.

Good luck! You'll quickly learn that there are many ways to raise and train a little puppy. Plus all puppies are different - and somethings work best with some puppies. Choose whichever ways work best at your house.

Carol Jean

My intention was to keep my new puppy gated off in the kitchen at night, but from the first night I got her she was in my bed. She cried so loudly that I had to stick her in my bed and she's been there ever since. I have gotten the steps so she can climb up and down safely and since she is free fed and uses her pads or at least the tiled floor she is pretty self sufficient.

She spends a lot of time sleeping in her little dog house under the computer table but after I go to bed, she comes into my room. Sometimes I don't even realize it until I wake up in the morning and there she is. What ever you want your arrangement to be you have to be consistent for it to work. Good luck.

We have Rowdy (1 year old) and Rex (11 weeks old).

Rowdy slept in the crate next to our bed with no crying until my husband decided he wanted him to sleep with us at about 5 months old. He did great - no accidents at all.

Then we got Rex (from Rowdy's parents, one year later). Rex went into the crate beside the bed for the first 7 nights - not one bit of crying - I was so proud of him. THEN, I think he figured out that my husband and I, Rowdy, and the senior dog were all in the bed right beside him and so on the 8th night, he cried and cried and cried for 3 hours. I had to make a several hour drive the next morning, so I put him in bed with me so I could get some sleep. I made a "pillow" bed for him. We have a king sized bed and I put him between my husand and my pillows and then put a pillow at about our shoulders (between Rex and the foot of the bed. In essence he was surrounded by the wall at the top and pillows on the other 3 sides. Of course, he could crawl over the pillows, but he didn't because he was so happy to be "with us". He snuggled right down and went to sleep and slept all night. I was so scared that he would pee though, that I didn't sleep as much. But he didn't have an accident!!! The several hour drive was to our country house where we were staying with some other folks and I took Rex and Rowdy. My husband and I sleep on 2 twin beds and since there were others sleeping in the room right next to us - I didn't want to try to crate Rex and have him crying again, so I put him in the bed with me - between me and the wall. Once again, he did GREAT and the rest is history, so to speak

He has slept with us ever since. I do put blankets on the floor around the bed, in case he gets up and falls off - which he did once when I got up and went to the bathroom, I think he followed me and didn't know that he would fall off. He was fine though, landing on the blankets - but then our bed is not very tall.

He has slept through the night, every night for 3 weeks with no accidents (fingers tightly crossed) :)

Good luck, I know it is hard, but it will get better!!!

things are better
 

Well...things are good. i weighed the pros and cons from everyone including my friends who have other types of dogs. I was SO tired. I put pillows all around the bed and tried to tire him out. I have never met a dog who has too much to do that he doesn't have time to eat and pee. This dog has an iron bladder. We went for a walk and he pooped on the walk but did not do any peeing. 10pm at night and I am trying to get him to "go". Nothing. I put him in bed with me. he was a little hyper with noise but never tried to get up and jump off...never tried to leave me. it wasn't until 8am the next morning that he decided to "go" on his pee pad. We are talking MANY hours since his last "go". I thought puppies were supposed to have go "go" every 20min. As far as eating, he loves treats (like cheerios and liver treats) but doesn't seem to have the time to sit and eat a whole meal. Only "picking" at it.
I will get pics up this week. I have to get my skating ones up too. i am SO far behind.
He is perfect though...oh...so perfect.
suzie

Oh I'm s glad you had a much better night. It just keeps getting easier except fot the occassional naughty day here and there.