Hello! I know this is going to sound crazy but I have a pack of 4 puppies! They are mostly Shepherds mixed with some Malamute in there, but they are so inseparable. They’re about to be 6 months old tomorrow!
Originally we adopted 3 (all from the same litter) and a friend adopted the last one of the litter, however, when he adopted his pup, he knew nothing about raising a fur baby. He negatively kennel trained the poor pup and kept him locked in a crate for endless hours since he worked 12 hour shifts and lived alone. Long story short(er), we told him to move in with us so he could be with his family.
The problem we’re having is every single night when we kennel the four of them in the living room, he cries endlessly - and it’s very loud too! (not something we can easily ignore)
We went to a pet trainer who told us to put him in “time out” when he does this and we’ve tried that but it does absolutely nothing, so we’ve tried ignoring him but then there’s the issue that no one gets ANY sleep because he screams (like a human) and he’s persistent about it too, he’ll give up after an hour and doze off for maybe half an hour and then go right back to it when he wakes up in his kennel. We’ve also tried letting him outside and leaving him alone out there for an hour or so and that worked for a while but now he just howls outside and for our neighbors sakes we can’t have him doing that.
The one thing we have found that works is having him sleep in the room with his owner, but then our other pups realize he’s not there and start howling and whining themselves and we’re all losing so much sleep over this and would love any suggestions that might help with this issue!
Thank you in advance!!
Originally we adopted 3 (all from the same litter) and a friend adopted the last one of the litter, however, when he adopted his pup, he knew nothing about raising a fur baby. He negatively kennel trained the poor pup and kept him locked in a crate for endless hours since he worked 12 hour shifts and lived alone. Long story short(er), we told him to move in with us so he could be with his family.
The problem we’re having is every single night when we kennel the four of them in the living room, he cries endlessly - and it’s very loud too! (not something we can easily ignore)
We went to a pet trainer who told us to put him in “time out” when he does this and we’ve tried that but it does absolutely nothing, so we’ve tried ignoring him but then there’s the issue that no one gets ANY sleep because he screams (like a human) and he’s persistent about it too, he’ll give up after an hour and doze off for maybe half an hour and then go right back to it when he wakes up in his kennel. We’ve also tried letting him outside and leaving him alone out there for an hour or so and that worked for a while but now he just howls outside and for our neighbors sakes we can’t have him doing that.
The one thing we have found that works is having him sleep in the room with his owner, but then our other pups realize he’s not there and start howling and whining themselves and we’re all losing so much sleep over this and would love any suggestions that might help with this issue!
Thank you in advance!!