I am writing this post as I am sitting next to my puppies crate crying my eyes out, trying to comfort her, I don’t know what to do and feel like I made a mistake. She has been whining for an hour.
Two days ago my boyfriend and I found a post about an 11 week old black lab and we instantly knew we found our baby. Shes the cutest. Yesterday was her first day home and it was amazing. She is extremely smart and trainable (can already sit and lay down on command) and we knew we wanted to crate train. Well the first night went AMAZING she went to sleep in the crate around 7pm, woke up at 11:30pm, I took her to potty, back in the crate, settled within 20 minutes with minimal whining while i sat next to her crate. Stayed asleep until my boyfriend left for work at 4:45am and then we were up for the day.
Tonight is a completely different story… wanted to put her to bed later because I am the one getting up with her and I don’t go to sleep until around 10:30. She took a nap from 6:45-7:30 in her crate no whining went into crate on her own to lay down and nap.
I then go take her potty and my sister came over and we played and played and played to tire her out. Let her go to her crate at 9:20 and the whining was nonstop, I took her to potty and she peed, then back to crate, she was reluctant this time though but I rewarded her for going to her crate. it is now 10:20pm and she is still whining, I do not feed into the whining but if I completely ignore her she howls and throws a fit (I live in a duplex)… I am at a loss. I don’t know how long it is going to take to get her in a routine and don’t know if I made the right choice, I need advice and encouragement because she’s such a good girl but I can’t function on 9 hours of sleep the past 48 hours.
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