New puppy wont sleep?

Just like a baby, if she is old enough to go through the night without food (8 weeks) she can sleep through the night. Put her in the crate, say good night, and do not open it until the morning. She will learn that she has to go to sleep when it's night time. You could also give her a hot water bottle filled with warm water and place a ticking clock near by to comfort her. It should take less than a week if you stick to your guns. A little tough love!!!

Puppies are usually like this! So you made a mistake by taking her in your bed. But you should train this way.. first of all, when you go to sleep, put her bed down to yours, and make her sleep in there. When she starts to cry, don't on the light, don't talk to her, just pad her gently on the back... but very important don't pad her too much, don't speak, punish or on the light for any reason as she will feel that you are giving her attention. You might put a warm bottle of water inside her bed (pet bottle filled with warm water (not to hot)) so she'll have the impression to have her mummy near.

A puppy might needs up to 3 times to go pee in the night.. but our breeder advice was good, stop to give her water from 7-8 pm at night until the next morning, for the first months.. and like this you'll need only once to go out...

Good luck and be patient!

Don't let her run loose in the room you'll have accidents. If putting her in your bed doesn't work then having the crate beside your bed and putting her in there with a hot water bottle (covered with a blanket and not so hot as puppies have sensitive skin) and a ticking clock. Have classical music playing quietly for her along with stuffed toys for comfort, cover the crate with a blanket, but be close enough that you can put your hand by the crate or put your fingers inside so she can know you are with her. Sshh her when she's whining and do not let her out of the crate until you know it's time for her to possibly go outside to pee. Make sure she has gone to the bathroom before you go to bed and withhold water 2 hours before bed time. She has to know that nighttime is bed time and not play time. If you have at any time played with her by removing her from the crate or played with her when she is supposed to be settled down and sleeping then you have made a rod for your back. Even when you take her out at night to pee it is straight out and straight back into the crate or back to sleep, eventually they will learn this.

My puppy would curl up between my legs under the covers and go immediately to sleep or I would give her a toy to chew on and play with when I put her to bed under the covers, a couple of minutes chewing on this toy and she'd be out like a light, it was a stuffed sheep and I used to joke that she was counting them because after a few minutes she'd be fast asleep. I never did the crate thing, I tried to settle her on a make shift bed on the floor but she would get up and wander around and I was worried she'd go pee or poop on the carpet and I wouldn't find it until I accidentally stepped into it. Having her sleep in my bed helped to remedy the situation. You must be firm, if she's chewing on your ears and trying play you must make her lie down and let her know it's bed time. Be firm, they need rules and boundaries.

I don't believe it squirting them in the face as puppies if they are crying, she's already anxious and frightened so why increase that level of anxiousness by scaring her even more with a water bottle? It just doesn't make sense.

Unfortunately puppies are hard work, very hard work and they take a lot of patience and training, when you buy a pupppy it's like having a baby that pees outside.

Pick up a book on puppy training from your local petstore or book store and find the "right" way to acclimatize your puppy to it's new environment.

Good luck

Definitely ignore it. Above all remember this is an animal, a pet, not a child. Don't let it sleep near you from the start or it will always expect to do that - you can allow it near you later on if you want to. But do NOT try to comfort the dog at night or it will learn that all it has to do is make a fuss and you come running. Then you will never get any sleep. Leave it alone, harden your heart and ignore the whining and after a few nights it will stop. Promise! It always does!

Haha! when we first got our cocker spaniel he would cry all night too, even when the crate was beside the bed!! so to make him stop, we had to just put him in the bed with us and let him sleep, and that helped. Wait till you leave the house for a few hours ohh God, it will be chaos. I have no kids and having this dog is like having a kid. ugh! Nope, the tv doesn't work, at least not while they're that young. Once you're out of sight they start crying.

I wouldn't put a puppy in a crate, but I know a lot of people do. Perhaps leaving a radio or television on near her when she's supposed to be sleeping will do the trick. I would also give her a lot of cuddling during the day, not just at night before you want to go to sleep. She is probably missing her mommy and litter mates.

She's a BABY!!!!! How can you expect her to adapt so quickly? She misses her siblings and her mom. Put her in her crate next to your dog, talk to her in a soothing voice, be patient and remember that she is a BABY.

She probably misses her littermates, try putting a couple of stuffed animals in with her, just make sure they are ones she can chew on.

You could always try a muzzle. Actually, I heard that a ticking noise is comforting to puppies and kittens, so you could give it a cheap alarm clock to listen too, not an electric one however, as if she chews it she could get electrocuted.