New to this forum, my breeder and CARDA sponsor recommended this website. Just received my GS puppy on Saturday morning. This will be my first working dog that I will be training for search and rescue. So far potty training is going really well. Only issues I'm running into are whining/barking in crate/expen. I think its due to separation anxiety. But not sure. He seems to calm down if I ignore him completely and he only whines or barks for 5 minutes or less. Should this be normal when beginning to crate train?
I train seeing eye guide dogs and none of my dogs I have trained went thru that stage in crate training they were happy as a clam. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!
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things sound pretty normal there . go ahead and let him whine / bark for the five minutes , and as soon as he settles , take him out .
if he is already getting the hang of it , you can start to vary the duration for time in and time out , so he won't start anticipating when he thinks he should be let out .
night night sleepy time is different . you may have to do a pre-emptive midnight let out at first , but try to set a routine where when you put him to bed , that's pretty much his place until the next morning .
never let him out while whining / barking as long as you are sure there is nothing harmful going on in there , which necessitates you being on top of food / water going in vs. pee / poop going out .
as well , you should be feeding him in there , and playing in and out fetch games with food and toys .
He just left his mum then, I'd put it as separation anxiety. At that age, we kept our crate in the bedroom, though I am far from a puppy expert and I expect you'll hear better from them.
He can hold his bowels and bladder all night long? Lucky!
Be patient. Eight weeks is a tiny infant. It's a BIG world out there, and he just lost his mommy. He's depending on you for security. Kristin's suggestion about letting him be close enough to smell and hear you should help him make the transition.
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