we’ve had our 13 week cocker spaniel for 3 weeks and we’ve not made much progress with daytime crate training. he’s fine with it at night and he will dip in and out during the day, but he’d never settle there. he’s still not ok with the door being closed unless he can see we’re about to give him a treat. this is all a work in progress and I know we need to work in slow, small increments of increased duration.
we’re also working on his separation training but again this is still at the level of closing the room door for a few seconds and re-opening.
my question is, how do we enforce naps for a puppy who isn’t crate or play pen trained? currently the only way I can consistently get him to nap is by sitting on my lap to calm down but I fear I’m setting him up for bad habits. even if he does fall asleep in his soft bed or on the floor, the minute one of us goes to leave the room he wakes up to follow and thats nap time over.
feels like a vicious cycle because he’s so overtired all the time which then makes crate training harder
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