How do I stop my puppy from crying early in the morning?

Question

Hi, I have a 10 week old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel female. She is in a crate overnight on her own. (Her Mum sleeps in the lounge near her but not in the crate).
Unfortunately the puppy has decided to start crying and howling at around 5.30 - 6.00am and doesn't stop until someone comes down to her. She is waking up the whole household and needless to say, the kids are getting very irritable due to less sleep.
Can anyone offer any advice please? It would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi
I really do feel for you with kids in the house, and having read most of these answers, people are not helpful. Of course the pup needs to pee, but there must be a way around not waking the whole household. Exercise is good, but why not try setting your alarm for say....3.30am, let her do her toilet etc, don't get her excited by being animated. Put her back to bed, stating clearly, bedtime, and you may get the household to get until 7.30? Worth a try, but it's no good people saying 'you shouldn't have a puppy' etc. They all forget what it's like all too quickly & keen to criticise. Best of luck.

Answer 2

This happened with my puppy too. Here's what we did:

1) Have someone sleep right next to the crate on the floor(take turns if your kids are over the age of about 10 or trade with another adult in the house)

2)take the puppy outside to go to the bathroom every two hours(baby puppies have small bladders)

3) You only need to do this for a week or two until you can leave the cage door open(another reason to potty train your dog quickly) or until your dog gets used to her surroundings.

Don't worry: your dog will calm down eventually: Shes just scared and lonely, like a little kid who thinks there's a monster in her closet.

Plan B: If you absolutely can't stay with her, try turning on a radio or TV in the same room with her, that way there is still noise in the room.

Also, if the crate is big enough, try getting a small towel or blanket and having a couple of people in the family, and her mom, to sleep with it for one or two night. Then put it in the crate, and it smells like her family.

Answer 3

There are a lot of possible answers to this one. One could be she's getting a lot of sleep during the day, going to sleep early and then waking up when she feels ready. She could have to go to the bathroom, as puppy bladders are tiny, cavaliers being toy dogs, i imagine even tinier! If it is the bathroom thing, then lower the amount of water in her crate (if there is a bowl). You may have to get up, take her out, then put her back in the crate and hope she goes back to sleep. Unfortunately dogs train us as well as us training them. It may take her a while to get past this as if she associates her barking with your coming, then why should she stop if she's getting the result she wants? If she responds to a stern voice to tell her to stop, that might work. She could be lonely, but for her safety a crate is the best place a curious puppy with no supervision should be. Working through it can be hard on sleep patterns and hopefully you will figure out why she is barking so you can fix the problem!

Answer 4

For a 10 week old pup I think your lucky to have the pup let you sleep even that late in the morning.
You can try to get the pup out for the last potty call later in the evening and perhaps it will wake later in the morning but don't count on it. The pup needs to go potty and if you want her not to soil the crate then someone has to get up and let her out.

Answer 5

Frankly, you're lucky that she even sleeps until 5:30-6:00! When we first got my dog as a young pup, he would go to bed about mid-night, be up again at 4, and up again at 6. Each time he woke up, we'd take him outside to use the bathroom.

Another thing we learned is that if you play with your puppy a lot during the day, it will be much more tired at night-time for bed. Try to see if you can get 2 of your dogs to play together, or play with your dog during the day. Make sure you don't let her sleep too much! Sleep is good for them, but if she sleeps too much in the day she will have a hard time sleeping at night.

Hope this helps!

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Answer 6

A dog should be trained on how to eat, walk with you, not to bark, potty training and sleep on its place etc. You can teach anything to your puppy, dogs get trained easily with some good instructions. If you want some good training tips visit https://tr.im/gHn00

If properly trained, they should also understand whistle and gesture equivalents for all the relevant commands, e.g. short whistle or finger raised sit, long whistle or flat hand lay down, and so on.

It's important that they also get gestures and whistles as voice may not be sufficient over long distances and under certain circumstances.

Answer 7

Get up and take the poor baby for a walk to pee! Their bladder can't hold it for long, he is suffering. Or let him outside the crate and teach it to use a pad or newspaper in the house to pee on. I am sure you knew a puppy is a responsibility, now you know why. Personally, I have a cat instead!!!

Answer 8

Take her outside, she has been holding it for probably 8-10 hours and has to go potty. If you were not ready for the responsibility of a puppy you should not have bred your dog. Let the poor thing outside making them hold it for longer than they can can cause many urinary problems and a possible infection.

Answer 9

Puppy at that age is hungry!Try feeding taking out to do his business and then cuddling!Anytime a puppy is crying it is a sign that something is wrong ,just like a child.!0 week old puppies need to be fed several small meals a day.Also soon you can begin to train him within a few weeks take him out within 10-15 min after eating and he will associate the eating and going out together.Puppies or dogs do not want to poop where they stay!!!Good Luck!!!!!!!

Answer 10

well wouldn't you cry if you wanted to go out to pee? and you were stuck in a crate? I feel for her. Use comon sense time to let pup out of the crate, she should be house broken by now or you are lazy