I don't know where I went wrong. About a month ago my pup has started to hate her crate, she'd bang on the door and cry and dig a bit for a few minutes before settling to sleep. So I consulted a vet and her trainer and they said to ignore her and kinda restart crate training if I was worried and I did that and it worked for a bit but then it stopped working. I've tried ignoring her and it's just gotten worse. I dread going to bed now cause she'll go on and on crying and biting and pulling the cover into the crate until my boyfriend takers her out calms her down and puts her back in. Then she'll sleep through the night.
So I started comforting her like we did when she was a few months old, we moved her back closer to us and put our hand on the crate to comfort her but now she doesn't accept that.
I'm at my wits end and I don't know what happened I feel like I need a break through or something cause I have tried everything and she is having the worst reactions I have ever seen from her.
There's other things that have also changed like she won't eat food from bowls and she's become agitated with her own reflection and sounds and stuff like that.
I work really hard to make sure all her needs are met and that she's exercised and enriched, but yeah she's become a bit of a tyrant and I need some advice rn that's not just ignore her because that clearly didn't work (like I understand the sentiment but I think she has crate related anxiety or smth and I really don't believe ignoring her as she's actively panicking is a good idea)
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