Puppies

Jumbles Posted: May 13, 2007 12:50 PM

Puppies

we just bought a 8 week yellow lab on friday night we are cage training her, how long before we are able to get a full nights sleep? please help all she does is scream and cry in her cage, she is fine when we let her out , but i want her to know that the cage is where she stays till she is older and not teething

angl2001 Posted: May 13, 2007 12:51 PM

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MY friend and his mom always cage train. Usully takes a few weeks to get them perfect but all dogs are different hes/she is prob just not used to it yet

jgl Posted: May 13, 2007 01:06 PM

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Posted by Jumbles

we just bought a 8 week yellow lab on friday night we are cage training her, how long before we are able to get a full nights sleep? please help all she does is scream and cry in her cage, she is fine when we let her out , but i want her to know that the cage is where she stays till she is older and not teething

Our dog was the same way. Pebbles would cry all night in the crate. so after the 2nd day (at 10 wks old) I just decided to let her sleep with me. And it was wierd because she was fine all night, no accidents. But she is a really great dog. SHe would actually go to the bathroom in the cage, which they say they wont do. But when we went out we kept her crated.

She trained very quickly too we didnt do wee wee pads, (we felt that after we spent time training her with that we would have to train her to go outside.. and that is too much work) we started walking her on our lawn and it helped having another dog, because she sort of watched what he did. she was trained fully by 5 months. after she got her rabies we walked her in the street.

hth

Jumbles Posted: May 13, 2007 01:13 PM

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Thank you so much for the advice , i was starting to feel all i do is wake up, clean poop, change a wee wee pad , clean poop , get her all wired up so she will go to sleep, wake up, clean poop , change wee wee pad , i never had a puppy and this is FH's first pet and we are a little clueless, are lives feel as if they will never go back to normal

angl2001 Posted: May 13, 2007 01:14 PM

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just wait till you have a baby!! lol youll have to do it all over again

soon2BMrsMcD Posted: May 13, 2007 01:16 PM

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When FH and I first got our puppy, we tried to crate train her. All she would do was cry and whine and pee!!! After about a week of NO sleep, we gave in and let her sleep with us. To this day she still does and it's never a problem. She sleeps in our bedroom on her little dog bed.

lexi1890 Posted: May 13, 2007 01:18 PM

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All dogs are definately different.....my dog was trained with the crate from day one and he is now a year old and goes in his crate on his own every night to sleep.

Make sure that crate is in a room so that the dog can see you. You can put the cage in your room at night so that the puppy doesnt feel alone....dont take them out of the crate though. Of course they will cry at first......i used to lay next to the crate and my dog would just fall asleep knowing i was next to him....then about 15 minutes later he was sleeping and i could go to bed. Give it a few weeks....they will realize its their little home....

Using the crate they tend to potty train a lot faster as well since they dont want to make a mess in their crate because thats their living space.

Just give it time......the puppy will be adjusted faster then you know it.

Good Luck!

blu6385 Posted: May 13, 2007 01:19 PM

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Posted by soon2BMrsMcD

When FH and I first got our puppy, we tried to crate train her. All she would do was cry and whine and pee!!! After about a week of NO sleep, we gave in and let her sleep with us. To this day she still does and it's never a problem. She sleeps in our bedroom on her little dog bed.

I was the same way ... she is not crate trainned at all!!!! she sleeps in bed with us every night ... i honselty dont know how she survies she is 7.5 lbs ...

Hscally Posted: May 13, 2007 01:19 PM

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I CRATE TRAINED FOR 3 OR 4 WEEKS AND MY PUPPY IS COMPLETELY TRAINED NOW...HE CRIED THE FIRST COUPLE NIGHTS BUT TO NO AVAIL..YOU JUST CANT GIVE IN...THEY NEED TO LEARN LIKE CHILDREN THAT THEY CANT ALWAYS GET THEIR WAY!!!! HE NEVER HAS ACCIDENTS NOW AND HE IS 4...

failurebydsign Posted: May 13, 2007 01:22 PM

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i wish i could have done this..

my dog eats through things

GET THIS

SHE ATE THROUGH WIRE METAL CAGE!!!

there was no option but to train her to just be a good dog on her own

shes on puppy prozac when we leave because she has severe seperation anexity

she tries to kill our cats when we are gone..

she broke my one cats leg because she tried to eat it

but i love her..shes getting better

jgl Posted: May 13, 2007 01:25 PM

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Posted by failurebydsign

i wish i could have done this..

my dog eats through things

GET THIS

SHE ATE THROUGH WIRE METAL CAGE!!!

my dog when i was younger used to get into the bathroom and chew on DISPOSABLE RAZORS! her tongue would bleed and she would lick herself andbe cover in blood.. it was disgusting, but she never learned and did it several times.

some dogs, like mine when i was younger.. are just DU M B!!