My 16 week moyen poodle puppy loves his crate for sleeping. He’s only ever had 2/3 naps outside of it in the 8 weeks we’ve had him and sleeps in it every night. He now goes in without complaint or force. On occasion we have to place him inside and he’ll turn around and look at you like “pardon me?” but mostly he does fine.
What I’m struggling with is, once he wakes up the crying and the barking starts. I realize he wants to get out, and we’re partially to blame as generally we’ve let him out after he lets us know he’s awake. Never while* *he’s barking or crying but once be wakes up and alerts us after a minute or two we let him out and take him outside, eat, play, train etc for 45-60m and then the cycle starts again.
He’s getting older now, can hold his bladder longer for sure and I think we need to work in more quiet peaceful time in the crate not sleeping.
He’s not horribly food motivated so a kong or a toppl didn’t always hold his attention and it’s still something to “do”.
Is he too young to learn to be bored and contained? Did we totally miss the boat?
His crate is in our bedroom, covered on three sides and we have white noise in there. We don’t stay in the room with him in there unless it’s overnight sleep.
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