Our dachshund is 9 weeks old and we’ve had her 3 days. We quickly noticed how bad her crying was when she is not with us. If we are going about our day, she is following, but even then she will start crying. When we are on the sofa she will try to jump up constantly and cry. We have tried to train her to like her crate, she has room, toys things that smell like us. For training we followed YouTube on giving them treats in the create with the door open, closed. Leaving for 30 seconds with the door closed and then treat, then 1 minute, 2 minutes etc. but she will always cry after sometime.
Now the worst part, night time, we know you should keep their days busy with exercise, don’t let them eat 3 outs before night and drink 1h or 30 mins before bed. Many trainers suggest putting a mattress by their crate and sleeping next to them, ignoring crying to not reinforce. But if it’s really bad stick your fingers through. Let them out for wee one or twice in the night.
We can get some sleep, but it could be 2-3 hours straight of crying.
We don’t know whether we should do some different training in the day, or take a different approach to night time but any help would be appreciated.
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