Category: Top Dog

Help me figure this out. 7 month old Yorkie/staffy girl. She’s been sleeping in a crate in my bedroom since I got her at around 3 months. She went into heat early and since then has been so fussy in her crate upstairs in my bedroom (she’s been out of heat for about 3 weeks now).

As a Hail Mary, to get some sleep, I put her in the crate downstairs (this is her day crate when I’m at work) at night and not a peep. I’ve done this for about a week and thought I’d transition her back to my bedroom tonight and back to yelping and crying and fussing. She’s now downstairs again, no noise at all.

Why is this happening? I’d love for her to be with me when I sleep and eventually, when I can be assured about potty training, offer her a dog bed or my bed. It feels sad that we are sleeping apart.

Thanks for the tips and ideas!

A few weeks ago I posted about the puppy we found roaming and adopted then proceeded to have issues after her first vaccinations and needed blood transfusions

Her name is Wanda, and I’m happy to say she’s now doing really well considering the vet hinted that it perhaps we should put her to sleep and she had a hard time during the second transfusion.

Her condition is IMHA and the vet said it was 1 in a million that she had a reaction to a vaccine (still not 100% sure it was that but it’s the only factor that changed leading up to her sickness).

Her red blood cell count is as of yesterday 37 and in the normal range, they were happy that her steroids prescription has been reduced and follow up blood test in 2 weeks.

We’re on a slow road but glad to say she’s a happy and full of energy puppy, fingers crossed she can lower her steroids next check up. Then we come to the challenge of vaccinating her again and working out how we do that without risking sickness again, hopefully because she’s growing and getting bigger that her immune system is also getting stronger.

Thanks for all the support previously (would love to post a picture of her but can’t seem to)