How do I best deal with my 5-week old Beagle puppy in the evenings without me getting disturbed in sleep?

Question

I have had 2 sleepless nights just to tend to my puppy Beagle who cries in the evenings in his crate. I notice he takes 1.5 hours of sleep and 30 minutes play in between in regular intervals. I just do not want him though to just roam around the room because I need him to get used to staying in his crate. What do you think is the best thing to do?

Answer 1

Welcome to "Parenthood"... you deal with it . He'll grow out of it soon...

First off Where is the crate?
You may want to drag it into your room or where ever you are at night so that he can hear you and smell you and know he's not alone...or you can take a shirt or something you have just worn and put it in with him so that he has your scent handy for comfort...

Also sometimes people will use a clock to simulate a maternal heartbeat...that sometimes comforts a puppy...(or, at target, they sell a "mommy sounds bear" it's this little stuffed bear that has a heartbeat...)


I know it seems miserable now...but soon enough he'll get used to his crate and he'll get used to sleeping through the night...but its always hard in the beginning...just be patient with your little guy. :)

Extra patient...your breeder or whoever should be smacked for giving you the pup so early in the first place...dogs should not be seperated from their mothers so early...8 to 10 weeks is best...5 weeks is ridiculous borderline cruel. He should be next to his mommy nursing...that's why he's having such a hard time...take good care of him...and don't get mad when he cries at night...he's already having a rough start in life. be extra gentle with him.

Answer 2

Puppies should be with their mothers until they are at least 6 weeks old,although 8 weeks old is best. He's very young, is no longer allowed the comfort of mom and siblings, and is most likely having a difficult time adjusting to that.

Suggestions: Try leaving a radio on with classical music
Leave a ticking alarm clock
Move the crate next to your bed where he can be comforted
Have him checked out with the vet to make sure his diet is appropriate to his age. Also have him checked for intestinal parasite.

I've had 3 beagles to date. They are very much pack animals in that they are most comforted by contact with others. In this case, the puppy is going to be most comforted by the closeness of you.

Keep the positive reinforcement going. He'll become more comfortable.Make going into the crate a positive experience. Give him time, he's very young.

Answer 3

He is 5 WEEKS OLD! A baby. Should still be with Mommy, that is why he is crying! You need to give him something like a blankie that has your scent so it can associate that with feeling safe and secure like with Mommy. Cuddle it too, it would still be sleeping with it's litter mates every night if it could. And seriously, if you can't deal with getting up with a crying puppy, maybe you should not have the puppy. It is way to young to be away from Mom anyway. You are a substitute now, put it in your bed and snuggle with it and deal with the crate training when it is 8-10 weeks old, a much more suitable age for it to deal with people wants.

Answer 4

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She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 5

Honestly the best thing to do is take him back to the place where you got him for at least another 3 weeks. Puppies should not be taken from their mother before 8 weeks and 12 weeks is preferable. Five weeks is simply too young. He is going to need constant attention (yeah that might mean waking up every 2 hours) and feeding almost as often in order to stay healthy.

Talk to his breeder, see if he can go back to his mommy for a few more weeks at least.

The next best option is to get used to sleeping on the floor and let him sleep with you for a couple of weeks. This will make crate training more difficult but he REALLY is too young to be by himself all night long.

Answer 6

Have you heard of "Snuggle Puppy? It's a stuffed animal (but no real stuffing) with a little plastic heart inside that beats and makes the pup feel like its close to a living thing. Supposed to be comforting. You might want to try a hot water bottle (not too hot) covered in a sock and putting it into puppy's crate. Or put pup in a small crate or box ON your bed and keep your hand in the crate or box to reassure it. Basically this pup is like a newborn baby..it should NOT have left it's mother and siblings. It is normal for a pup to want to be with it's family at this time and not normal for it to be happy being alone while sleeping. I would try to keep it near you (but in a crate of some kind) overnight for another 2-3 weeks . Right its bowels and bladder just cannot last over night without having to go potty.

Answer 7

This puppy is way to young to be sleeping alone, it should never have been removed from his mother. In many states, that alone is illegal. Obviously, taking him back to where you got him is pointless, because they were clueless enough in the first place to let him go at such an early age. Are you feeding him special milk to give him the nutrition that a puppy would normally get from his mother's milk?? You should talk to your vet, and definitely cuddle him as much as possible. I like the idea of sleeping with him, best case... if not possible, then the ticking clock would help too. Just remember its not the puppy's fault...

Answer 8

We had a litter of pups once and they did that at night too and there were six of them. But I agree with all the other answers, it is too young to be taken from its mother and siblings. They aren't suppose to leave the mother until 8 weeks, have first shots and be weaned. So if you can take it back for a short time, that would be good but make sure it has been weaned and has its shots when you get it back. Then you usually have 48 hours to a week to get it checked by a vet before returning it if there is a health problem. FYI - I use to put a heating pad on low in their bed at night and that helped.

Answer 9

OK, he is way to young to be away from his mom. Way too young. Of course he's whining. He doesn't know where his mom is. If you found him as a stray or something, of course that's not your fault. But you should get used to the fact that he's going to keep you up for the next three weeks or so. A five week old puppy simply is not capable of sleeping by himself peacefully. He's looking for him mama, because he is not even close to weaned yet, and he will continue to do so. Good luck.

Answer 10

aww...he should be with his mama yet! You're just going to have to do your best to ignore him when he cries, unfortunately, that could be a tough thing to do... I know beagles can be quite the noise makers! Do you have room in your bedroom to put his crate in there? If he can see you, it might help a little. Try putting an old t-shirt or something of yours (that you've worn, so it smells like you) in his crate too. Give him some stuffed animals to cuddle with! That's about all I have...good luck!