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05-08-2006, 08:32 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ft. Lauderdale
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| Barking at night in crate Hello all! This is my first post here, since most of my questions have been answered through other threads! So thanks so much for all the info!! The questions I have now have been discussed, but I haven’t really seen any tips (that I haven’t already tried) on correcting the problem. So here goes… Kody will be 5 months old on the 11th. My husband and I crate him during the day while we are at work. I come home on my lunch break to walk and feed him, so he’s only in his crate for about 4-5 hours at a time. We also crate him at night, since he isn't fully potty trained yet, and we can’t trust him just yet to roam the house at night! But that’s where the problem is. He barks for what seems like forever when we put him in his crate for the night!! It’s usually over an hour! We make sure we take him for a long walk (30 minutes or so) before bed, to try to tire him out. The last couple of nights, it’s lasted so long that we've given up, and put him in bed with us. (After all, my husband and I do need some sleep!!) Of course, then he’s fine. But we were told that when you put him in bed with you, it will just make the separation anxiety worse. We’ve tried everything – kept the crate in our room so he could see us, moved the crate to the other room so he wouldn’t see us and bark at the slightest movement, gave him treats when in the crate, put his favorite toy in there with him, left the radio on, put a blanket over his crate to block out any light so he would know it’s time to sleep… We’re at our wit’s end! Last night we put him in his crate early, thinking if he got all his barking out, he would be asleep by the time we were ready to go to bed. No such luck! Obviously, when we leave for work during the day, we don’t know how long it takes for him to stop barking. But when we get back to the house, he isn’t barking. So at some point he does stop. We just don’t know how long it takes!! So here are my questions: 1. Do we just need to ignore him until he stops, regardless of how long it takes? 2. Should we just keep him in bed with us so he sleeps (and we sleep!!) and risk the possibility of the separation anxiety getting worse? 3. Should we get one of the citronella collars to help with the barking? 4. Should I put him in the crate occasionally while we are home, so he gets used to us being home while he is in the crate? 5. Is there anything I haven’t said that I’ve tried that I should be doing? 6. Will he ever out grow this?!?! Thanks in advance!! “Sleepless in Ft. Lauderdale” |
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05-08-2006, 08:37 AM | #2 |
BANNED FOR NOT MAILING PRODUCTS PURCHASED | It's the same thing as a child, the baby cries, so mom and dad give in and bring the baby in bed with them, I belive that is the worst mistake to make, I made it with my 1st daughter and she was scared to death to sleep alone, she slept with me till she was 6yrs old! As far as the pup goes, have you brought the crate in your room? maybe if it's in your room, he wont bark, or the other option is, move it to the other end of the house. Will he potty in the crate? Kloey pottied in hers no matter what size it was, so finally I went to a med size crate and put a small litter box in it with a peepee pad in the litter box and now she will go in there and potty all by herself. |
05-08-2006, 08:56 AM | #3 |
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| No matter how many times you read it, never, I repeat never ignore it. Also don't let him sleep with you at night. Just correct the barking. When he starts shout no no no no!. Make sure you do it so he knows it's the barking that you don't like. I'm not sure if he is potty trained but if not you should be crating him a lot when you are home anyway to train him. If you ignore it, it will never stop. If you baby him when he barks he will always do it. Do some pack leader exercises. When you come home while he is in the crate, ignore him for the first 10 minutes. Don't come home and go crazy with a greeting, just ignore him. Don't look at him or touch the crate or anything for 10 minutes. Take off your work clothes, prepare dinner or whatever but ignore him when you first come home. No treats when he barks either. We had our dog in the room with us but when she turned 1 year old we moved her crate into the living room. Maybe the first couple of weeks we had her she barked sometimes but we corrected it and it was never really a major problem. Our correction was a gentle shaking by the scruff of her neck. It sounds like your dog runs the house and you have to put a stop to it. I know it's hard for a lot of folks here to do but our dog does hardly anything without prior approval. She won't jump on the couch unless she's invited, she won't jump on the bed, she won't leave the crate when we open it unless we tell her to, she sits down at the front door when we open it, she even sits down at her food bowl to wait for us to give her the "eat" command. Train your dog and the dog owning experience is so much better for all involved. The dog knows exactly what you expect of him/her and you know exactly how your dog will behave. Your dog is young too so you have eager youth on your side and it can all be easy.
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05-08-2006, 09:04 AM | #4 |
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| We let ours dbark for a week, then I coulde not stand it, so I blocked off the laundry room, took the door off of the crate, put down pee pads and water. After that she would bark for a few minuteand then settle down. After a couple of weeks she even stopped that. When we brought Chachi home he would protest too at first, but only for a few minutes, and then settle down. For the past two night, as soon as I turn off the light and leave the area, they both settle down. I just can't imagine getting into a shouting match with a puppy. |
05-08-2006, 09:08 AM | #5 | |
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Maybe it's just me, but this does not sound like much fun to me, I could never make them spend that much time in the crate. I agree with extablishing leadership and all, but I believe it can be done outside of the crate. I'm the leader, but I like my pack close by. | |
05-08-2006, 11:09 AM | #6 |
I heart Hootie & Hobbs Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: USA
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| Why dont you just let him sleep in bed with you at night?? I don't think that this contributes to separation anxiety at all!!!!!!!! Generally yorkies wont potty where they sleep. If your yorkie has not pottied in your bed yet, then that means taht he probably isn't going to. Hobbs sleeps in bed with us and he ALWAYS wakes me up if he has to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. So, we have always let him sleep with us at night and he is in his crate during the day while we are at work. He doesn't have separation anxiety because he sleeps in the bed with us. AND it's nice to have him cuddle up with us in the evenings since we are gone all day. You know? He probably just misses you and wants to spend time with you! |
05-08-2006, 01:00 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | One of the reasons I got Cali is because I had always had Yorkies and they slept with me. Then when my last one dies at 6 1/2 we got a Pom who will only sleep under the bed, I missed having my baby in bed with me so I got another Yorkie. She slept in her playpen for the first 5 months next to my bed and then when she was completely trained I but her in bed, she is wee wee pad trained so she can go down if she needs to to her play pen and use the pad but she always sleeps through the night and we are both happy.
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