we would love any and all advice because we’re at our wits end and would just love to sleep. 😭
we’ve had our mini golden doodle since she was 8 weeks and she’s 15 weeks now. she does perfectly fine in her crate during the day but at night time it’s a different story. here’s a list of things we’ve already tried or currently do.
• potty right before bed (we used to take away water but then tried to let her keep water and even put her bowl in her crate and that seemed to help for a little bit but now we’re back to square 1)
• comfort blankets in crate with her and a fan in her crate so she doesn’t overheat
• if she does bark we take her potty but with no enthusiasm or attention; just a very quick potty break and back to the crate
• we play dog anxiety music on the tv right next to her crate in the living room to help her settle
• we cover the crate all around to create the “den like” atmosphere, and we feed her in her crate for dinner.
we definitely wear her out before bed and settle about half hour before. we’ve tried letting her bark it out, we’ve gotten up once she starts and done potty. we just don’t know what else to do at this point, we live in an apartment so it’s hard letting her bark forever even when we’re supposed to just be ignoring it.
we can’t fit her crate in our bedroom or else we would put it in there but our apartment isn’t huge so she easily accessible and knows where we are.
please if anyone has any advice as to what could possibly help her we would love it. we just don’t know what else we could possibly do.
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