We decided - probably a little late - to crate train Peanut. He's been in his little crate two nights now and both nights he barked, wimpered, BARKED, wimpered, and BARKED some more. Yapped is more like it lol.
I for some odd reason can fall asleep with him doing this next to my head. Anthony cannot. So Peanut was moved to the living room. Then the garage. 12:30 am I'm up and take Peanut out for a potty break (Brandi just getting in from the basketball game). Put him back to bed and he barks, wimpers, and BARKS some more. *sigh* off to bed I go.
4am - the alarms go off for Anthony to get up for work. He doesn't hear them, I do. I wake him and he's upset because he's tired (Peanut kept him up barking). I swear this went on for about an hour though I know it didn't lol. Anthony brings Peanut in and puts him in his cornered off area in the bathroom which just leads to more wimpering, barking, whining and BARKING. Just before 5am I'm outside with him for a potty break (he's gonna learn to hold his bladder longer than 4 hours right?).
5am and he wants to play. I put him on the floor with a stuffed animal and he plays while I try to go back to sleep (knowing my alarm is going to go off at 6am). 5:15am BARKING.... 5:20am BARKING... 5:30am BARKING UGH! I'm tired, I want to sleep! lol He finally comes up on the bed with me and settles down and sleeps. Just as he falls asleep and myself too - the alarm goes off! UGH!
And Peanut is as tired as he can be because he was up almost all night yapping. Poor little guy.
On a brighter note - we introduced him to Misty our german shepard/chow mix. Misty is HUGE compared to Peanut! She did fairly well and Anthony seems to think it's because Misty knows Peanut is so small. She did get tired of his yapping fairly quick though. We took the dogs for a walk to the park and let them run a bit. Misty got off the leash and was bounding around the park. There were some teens and some younger kids with them (not less than 5years old) and one girl SCREAMED (I mean really SCREAMED) and started running, a few other girls followed suit. I screamed back not to run (or Misty would chase). If they didn't run, Misty wouldn't even bother them. What a walk lol. I was hoping Peanut would have wasted a LOT of his energy and sleep through the night, but no such luck.
Maybe tonight will be a better night. We put the crate in his day area while we are at work. This will let him get used to his crate too while knowing it won't be shut while he goes in and out of it. I hope this goes faster than I'm thinking it will.
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I swear by crate training, and it is NEVER too late for crate training. You were right to put it in your room, it is the best way to get them settled in the crate. Maybe Anthony should sleep in another room for a few nights. I would recommend keeping the crate within arms reach of your side of the bed. Puppy will eventually be comforted by your presence in the room. Putting his crate in an isolated part of the house (ie. the garage) will be naturally upsetting to him, as dogs are meant to sleep in the same area. So I would give him a few more nights to adjust to it. He might grow to like his crate or he might hate it his whole life. Puck still hates his crate, and I don't care because when we go out it is the best place for him for his own safety and our sanity. When he sees that we are getting ready to go out, he tries to hide, when I give him the command "crate up" he goes into his crate, but only because he knows there will be a bacon treat in it. lol Good luck, I hope you get some sleep tonight.
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