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As I write this my poor little pup is crying in his crate and I am dying of the sad sounds. He stopped screaming, now he’s just crying. I love him so much it breaks my heart idk what to do.

He’s 6mos old chi mix and was doing sooo good in the crate at night. He didn’t love it but settled quickly, finally at the point of barely even a complaint and sleeping till 7am. It took a lot of incremental work to get him there but I did it bc I didn’t want him to feel scared or sad before bed

Then, he got neutered. I couldn’t leave him in his crate overnight bc I couldn’t monitor if he was licking or not. (He couldn’t wear the plastic cone because he’s tiny and would fight it so bad he would get his paws stuck under it. So I switched him to the inflatable donut. He could easily get around the donut to his stitches but he never seemed to discover that. But I didn’t want to risk that he would discover that in the middle of the night or something. So I let him sleep on my bed with my had on him so I could monitor him.)

And now it’s the first night I tried to put him back in the crate. More accurately, HE went into his crate at 930 (tbh he does this often just for treats) and I thought oh he’s tired bc we had a really long hike today. So I gave him treats and closed the door. Holy hell broke out. I couldn’t open the door bc then I would reinforce his behavior but I feel physically sick to listen to him so upset. I’ve been talking to him and singing to him. I have really bad ptsd and the sounds and stress is making my face numb. He stops for a sec and I think he’s gone to sleep and then starts crying again. If I give in he’s sleeping in the bed forever which I do not want. Ugh idk what to do. I feel sick and I know this is going to be a long night and I’m traumatizing him. Anyway, thanks for listening. :0(

Hey guys, I have a question about crate training. My puppy is 9 weeks old now (got him at 8 weeks) and takes all his naps on my lap. At night he does sleep in a “basket” (idk the English for it) mostly without problems.

During the day, though, he has to be on me for naps. I’ve been trying to crate train him, but if he’s in the crate with the doors closed and he can see me, he yells non-stop. Putting a blanket over it doesn’t seem to help much.

If I let him fall asleep on me and then put him in the crate, he immediately wakes up and climbs back into my hands.

Any tips on how to get him to sleep in the crate? Thanks!

My pet dog(indie breed) got bitten by a stray dog (indie ) so like what are precautions and like measures can I take to take to be safe and care full plzz help

Probably gonna get some snaps for this but realistically, how thoroughly do we need to research breed lines, family history, dna results, origin country before getting a dog? I've researched breeds, that's valid and we're settled on a lab. The more I research, the more complicated it gets! Working lines, show lines, drives, colours, british, american.. i'm so overwhelmed. We're not looking for anything crazy, first dog for a family pet. 3 kids, youngest being 4 and eldest being 11. I have time, energy and drive to focus on training and exercise will be reasonable accomodating the young kids. Some days they'll out run any dog around an oval, sometime a casual walk to pick them up from school with a 4 year old riding along on a bike will be the work out. We have an enclosed yard, we have the money, we're not being completely stupid snd neglectful here but do we REALLY need to thoroughly and indepth research 70 different breeders and the pups lineage and shape of its head to find a good family pet or can I just go check out some local litters from good, loved family dogs, lick one and figure it out from there. Any success stories from casual puppy collections and rescues? This is just all a bit extreme for a first time family pet, will I really kick myself that hard?

Be kind, i'm running on limited sleep after staying awake researching all night..

So my puppy just turned 6 months and since I got home I have been working from home and its been nice spending so much time with him and training him. I just got notice that in January i will need to move from fully remote to hybrid (so like 3 days in the office). My pup has been ok when by himself so far. He is fine being in another room or in the backyard without me, and when i leave the house he is ok mostly. I have noticed that if im gone for longer however he does get a bit upset like lots of whining. I will be gone for about 6 hours when i go to work in the office, if you guys could drop advice on how you prepared your pup to be home alone that would be great. I would really like to get to the point where he can just free roam in the house and not in the crate the whole time so any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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