Brought our 9 week old puppy home yesterday. Spent a lot of the time in the garden and snuggling on the sofa. She loves comfort and being near me. We had a plastic bed that we brought her home in with a towel and small blanket that smelled of her mum. She peed all over it a few hours after we got home. I set up the crate before she arrived (we took the door off) but she cried quite a lot. Went to bed just after midnight and she was up this morning crying and barking at 5:15am! She has the whole kitchen to herself. When I came down, I discovered that she had weed and poo’d all in the crate all over her bedding. She didn’t come from the cleanest home so wondering how I can get her out of this?
Also, locked her in the kitchen today whilst we had dinner (closed the baby gate) and she screamed the whole house down like she was being murdered! I have a heated pad and towels in the crate but she just won’t settle there at all and wants to be on your lap or snuggled in your neck.
What can I do to help her settle in the kitchen? I can’t have her screaming and barking all night… or should I sleep on the sofa with her (although stressing that she might wee and poo on me 😑)
She’s 9 weeks and 4 days old.
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