puppy sleeping in bed?

[Threerun]

Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal

OP, your pup is training you. Wear the pup out before bed-time. Put a towel or something in the crate with your or your daughter's scent and a wind-up clock outside the crate (one with a tick-tock sound). Tired pups go to sleep.

Crate him/her throughout the day and make it a rewarding experience. It won't be too long before the pup looks at the crate as his/her "safe place".

If you give in to the whining and screeching you will only make it all the harder to undo that re-enforcement of the behavior later that you are giving the pup now. Right now you are rewarding the pup's behavior by responding to the whining.

Again: a tired pup is a good pup.

100% spot on. Tired pups are tired pups- they will soon find out their crates are their crash zones. Just remember a pup is not unlike a newborn- it may want to get up a few times and romp and be a pup and want companionship. Take them outside, let them do their business and put them back to bed in the crate.

Soon the absence of light and noise will signal it's bed time.

We have crate trained all of our dogs. After 25 years of marriage that is over 10 dogs. Right now we have three. At this moment they know it's time for bed. They are all willingly in their crates, no prodding and all fast asleep.

[J800]

My pup sleeps in his crate right next to our bed. We leave the crate door open at night, turn on his nightlight and close the door to our room so he won't be able to get out. Once the lights are out and the nightlight is on, he knows it's time for bed and will head straight to his crate.

He normally sleeps 3-4 hours at a time before going to urinate. If he has to pee he just gets up, goes to his pee pad and then goes right back to his bed. He seems calm knowing the crate is his area, we don't let him on the bed.

[Mattie Jo]

Originally Posted by lovedogs2

My 11 week old puppy won't sleep in his crate at night...we have tried ignoring him but he will whine, screech, cry ALL night...very loudly! He will however sleep in the bed in his own little bed. He will usually whine in the night to go out if he is on the bed. Is this okay to do? I was planning on having him sleep in the bed when he got older but is it okay to have him sleep in bed as a puppy? He is little and can't jump off or on the bed but usually whines...the only problem would be if my daughter doesn't hear him whine (it is her bed he is sleeping on). Any thoughts and suggestions? He is a puppy mill puppy and I really don't want to stick him in a crate all night if it is going to traumatize him. Thanks

My dogs always slept with me. A puppy misses his mother, and so the whining. He will get over it. Our last dog slept between us, and yet, if we touched her she would move to get away, and now she won't even sleep in our bed nor on the couch with me. Every dog is different. I don't like crates either. I think he will bond better if he does sleep with you. And you will not roll over on him. Seems like when know even when we are asleep that an animal is there.