New puppy howling, whimpering when left alone?

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We got a tiny puppy (shih tzu-lhaso apso mix) last night that is seven weeks old. He cries, howls and whimpers when he is left alone and wants to be with us all the time. We let him in the bed last night but he was very restless and began to play several times. My husband is afraid we will accidentally roll over on him (he's only about a pound and a half) while we are sleeping. Anybody have any suggestions that has dealt with this before?

Answer 1

You need to understand, that just because he is of another species, he still is just a tiny baby...So, it is to be expected that he will behave just as a human baby would..Human babies cry if left alone, too..He has the same tauma and stresses you would expct from am infant..In a couple of weeks, he will be more as a toddler, and a little more independant..

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We got a tiny puppy (shih tzu-lhaso apso mix) last night that is seven weeks old. He cries, howls and whimpers when he is left alone and wants to be with us all the time. We let him in the bed last night but he was very restless and began to play several times. My husband is afraid we will...

Answer 4

Just remember that you condition your dog from the day he comes into your house. If you want him sleeping in another area, put him there and listen to the crying and howling for a few nights. He'll figure out soon enough that he's getting no response. Did you bring anything that smells like Mom Dog? it's always a good idea to have something in his kennel.

By the way, don't form any bad habits that you'll have to break later. If you don't want your dog on the furniture, NEVER let him on the furniture.

7 weeks is very young to be separated from Momma. We always pick up our pups at 10 - 12 weeks.

Answer 5

Seperation Anziaty ( I know its not spelled right) but my old roommate had a pit bull puppy who is now almost 2 and still does this. Crate training may be the best thing that you can do. Put the crate near you at first and gradually move it out of your room into a laundry room or bathroom (somewhere where it is warm,quiet and dark. It may take some time but this is the best thing to do. It will also help in housebreaking. I know the pup is cute and you want to make it happy but your going to drive yourself crazy if you let the dog sleep in the bed with you and it has this problem. Dont get me wrong my dog sleeps in my bed but if she did that she would be in a crate at night. But then again your dog weighs one pound and mine weighs 60 so i'm not scared i'm going to roll over on her, I have to worry about watching out for paws when i'm sleeping.

Answer 6

Make sure you play with him lots during the day, and I mean LOTS puppies have so much energy and if he gets tired during the day hopefully he will sleep better at night and not want so much of a roll around at night time.

He does miss you, that is why he whimpers. If he sleeps on your bed fair enough, just make sure he knows that when he is on the bed it is SLEEP time and if he tries to play ignore his attempts and just stroke him gently, he should fall asleep.

You could try, as someone said, a bed for him next to yours and just make sure he knows you're there. Dogs often find the ticking of a clock soothing as it resembles their mother's heartbeat. For a dog so young this should help as he is missing his mum and brothers and sisters, he really shouldn't have been separated til at least 8 weeks. It is a big confusion for them to be hauled away from their cosy basket with mum and siblings and thrust into the arms of a total stranger,strange house, strange smells etc. Therefore to be close to anyone available is what they want to achieve. They just need comforting. As this 'separation anxiety' receeds over the coming weeks he should stop the whimpering as he gets used to his new family and his new home.

Good Luck

Answer 7

I agree 99%...the 1% I don't agree with is letting the puppy sleep with you. If you are afraid you will roll over onto the puppy then that should be (to you) a sure sign not to let the pup sleep in your bed. Get a medium sized crate (if your house is drafty, get a plastic airline crate...if not, a metal crate). This is not inhumane...what if the pup falls off the bed in the middle of the night and breaks its leg (or worse, its neck or back).

The puppy will eventually stop crying...the more you let him out when the whining is going on, the longer it will last....if he is still whining after about 5 min. take him outside to potty...then right back in the crate. I would put the pup in another room, but don't close all the doors...you need to be able to hear him if he needs to potty in the middle of the night. We went through this in early April when we got our great dane puppy...took about a week and a half for him to quit whining...now he (8 months old) sleeps in his airline crate (keep a cold house) next to our bed and only whines in the night when he has to potty.

Another reason to crate train is (God forbid) your house catches on fire, or other natural diseaster, you can grab the crate and run...if you have a loose dog, they will hide somewhere in the house and you might never find them!...Our house caught fire, and we found all the animals (dogs crated, cats not) and got them out...one cat got loose and ran back into the burning house! Luckley the firemen got there and only one room was damaged! The cat lived!

Answer 8

I have a full grown Yorkie who is 4 lbs and 1 year old. she did the same thing when we first got her - for about the first month. Think about how scared your puppey probably was - his first night away from his litter mates and momma. I bought a small crate for our puppy and filled it with soft fleece blankets and set it up beside my bed). The first night I put her in it she slept all night - not a sound. Now at night when I say "bed time Maggie" she heads right for it and climbs in all by herself. She feels safe and warm in there and she knows i am close by.

Also - 7 weeks old is very young to be separated from mom for a puppy - most breeders will not let their dogs go until 8 to 10 weeks of age.

Good luck and enjoy the special new addition to your family!

Answer 9

Unless you want to sleep with him FOREVER then put him in his crate or bed area and listen to him howl and cry all night. It will last a few weeks but then he'll get used to it and now where his place is. He's just scared because he is in a new place.

But if you put him in your bed now, when he's bigger and you want to put him in his own bed, you'll have to go through a few weeks of the crying again so it's better to get it out of the way now. Oh, and if you don't mind sleeping with him, I wouldn't worry about rolling over him, I slept with tiny Yorkies for years and that never happened, they know how to move out of the way.

Good luck!

Answer 10

smaller dogs should ideally be with mom until they are 10-12 weeks old, the puppy is used to having mom there and playmates to rough house with. The puppy is adjusting to it's new life and it may take a while, all of this is new to the puppy and it is scared and confused.

When my mom got her yorkie, she would put her in the kennel at night, at the opposite end of the house, she would put a few toys in there, and have a radio playing softly next to the kennel, it was rough the first few nights, but eventually the puppy settled in to the new routine.