We’ve had my golden retriever pup since she was 8 weeks. She’s now 6 months.
She’s been crate trained since the beginning (it was roughhhhh) but we got her there. She still gets one solid nap a day (sometimes two) and sleeps through the night in her crate. And she goes in her crate up to 3 hours if we leave the house.
She has extreme FOMO though, if she hears us she wants out, even during naps. We put on white noise and stuff and she’s basically just come to know she can’t come out and needs to sleep. When we leave the house she doesn’t make a peep (we have a camera so we know)
We’ve tried leaving her out of her crate for naps to see if she would sleep on her own but she doesn’t. She barely even lays down for periods of time lol.
My questions are:
Are we causing this by only having her sleep in the crate ? How many of you let your puppies sleep in bed with you?
My fear is going backwards on crate training. I don’t want her to get excited that she gets to sleep in our bed and then when we need to leave during the day her be like wait ? The crate? I hate this thing that’s right no way am I going in it!
I know every dog is different. I would just like to hear some other experiences.
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