New puppy advice...

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A question on behalf of a friend...

She's picking her pup up next week, and has crate etc all sorted, and it will be crate trained/sleep in it at night.

She's just asked, for the first few nights when it cries, should she just ignore it totally, or try it for a toilet check at first?

I can't remember what we did for Dougal, think we just left him! Is this ok?

Thanks :)
 
Take out for toilet before bed, then ignore totally (unless it sounds like its hanging itself or something, obviously)
 
With mine I'd let them out into the garden as late as possible and then always got up at 6am to let them out again.

The reason being is puppies haven't learnt to hold themselves so I would try to get up before they woke up properly. Most days it was still too late and I'd find a poop.

As for the cruing, a good thing to do is put a nice warmer in the bed with the pup, a nice soft toy and water.

The warmer you can get various types that you heat in the microwave, they are great comforters and they helped my two get through the nights.

If the pup starts whimpering or barking try to ignore it, it is hard as then your sleep is disrupted.

However if the crying sounds like distress then go and check. If when you go downstairs and all is fine don't go to the pup just ignore it and go back to bed as any attention will only enourage more crying.
 
lol! I must have been soft!

Harley went out for last wee 10.30pm... He'd then wake up crying at 1am and 4am. We took him outside, he'd have a wee then straight back in his crate and we then ignored any crying. He barely spoke to him or anything, no fuss.

That was the 1st week (he was 8 weeks old). 2nd week he only woke up once a night and we did the same thing.... and then that was it, he never woke up again!
 
For Bs first week with us (8 weeks) She had her last wee trip at about 11pm and then was taken out at half 4 in the morning for another wee. We gradually lengthened the amount of time she was left overnight and now she will happily sleep as long as I sleep!
 
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