8 week old puppy howls an barks all night in her cage! help me!?

She's actually acclimating to her CRATE (NOT cage) well. She goes into it to sleep when she wishes to nap during the day.

The problem is not the crate. The problem is that she's so young and has just been separated from her mama and siblings and she's lonesome for them. Get an old sock and stuff it with a bunch of other old socks and tie or sew it closed. This gives her a "littermate" to snuggle up to at night.

Also, wear a t-shirt so it gets your scent on it, and then put it into her crate so she has your scent to comfort her at night.

You didn't say where her crate is in relation to where you sleep, so I don't know what to recommend there. Some dogs do better with their crate in their owner's room, and others have their crates in other rooms.

Google Crate Training and read up on it. The crate is supposed to be the dog's "safe haven".

You should also join one of Yahoo's good pyr groups to ask your pyr questions rather than asking here where most respondents don't know the breed. -!-

I'm assuming you don't have the crate in your bedroom at night? Bring it in there!! Discretion is better than insisting she sleeps apart, if you want a night's sleep. It's not giving in - you can move her back to the kitchen/wherever when she's grown up. She's only a baby, and feels abandoned at the moment, and she's shouting for her litter-mates, her previous life. So bring the crate in with you, have it alongside your bed, and if she kicks off, hold your hand to the side of the crate to reassure her she's okay, you are there still. If she's already sleeping in there during the day, you are halfway there!! You will probably need to get up during the night once to take her out to do her biz as puppies of this age can't hold all night. But apart from that, just insist she shuts up, turn the light off and go to bed. You might also, if she freaks out over the door being shut, consider having the crate in your room, and making a little pen, with the crate in there, covering the floor with plastic and towels so if she has an accident during the night, it doesn't matter. There's honestly no point letting her get hysterical in the crate - this is counterproductive as you will need to shut her in when you go out etc., for now.

Please, don't listen to all of these people trying to tell you you're somehow a bad dog owner for crating your dog. It's just not so. Crating is more than just a wonderful toilet training tool. It makes travel easier, it gives you peace of mind, and it allows your dog to have her own space, all of which becomes very important as time goes on.

Three things to try/think about. First, if the crate is not in your room, bring it in there, at least for a few weeks. If your puppy is out in the other room, she'll howl in any event (she's too young not to) and at least having her in the same room as you will make her more comfortable.

Second, the praise for going into the crate needs to be downright overwhelming. You need to make sure that she understands that the crate is a good thing. If you close the door and walk away, then the crate becomes the thing that separates her from you. If you close the door and immediately bombard her with half a dozen cookies, then the crate becomes a source of cookies. Obviously, the latter will make the dog happier.

Finally, and again, like the different room thing, if you haven't been doing this, it doesn't apply, but NEVER use the crate as punishment. If your dog misbehaves and you've been "sending her to her room", then "her room" will only ever be a punishment. The idea (and I guess I've already said this) is to get her always to associate the crate with good things: cookies, you cooing uncontrollably, praise, toys, and so on.

Little babies like yours will always whine at night if they aren't allowed to climb in bed and sleep on top of you. That is the only thing that will quiet her immediately. However, if you don't want a giant white dog in your bed for the rest of your life, which it sounds like you don't, separation early is the only option. Bring her as close as you can to you (even bringing the crate right up to the foot of your bed) and praise her unmerciful. If you have the stomach for it, a stern "shh!" might even be in order if she persists. I promise, you're not hurting your dog. She's a baby. Babies cry.

Best of luck.

Make sure she is calm and relaxed before you close the door to her cage. Do not let her out just because she is whining or that will make things worse (ie she will keep whining because if she does that she gets attention - so then you're basically teaching her to whine at that point). If you want to let her out make sure she is quiet before you open the door.

Puppies do this, it takes them a little while to get used to sleeping on their own. And no it is not cruel to keep a puppy in a cage at night, they are den animals, it's natural for them to sleep in a confined space as it makes them feel secure. As long as she has room to stand up and turn around and it's comfortable, it's fine. It's a good thing to teach her to get used to her kennel, so that you can transport her safely, and so that she has her own little space that's hers. But you have to stick with it. Eventually she will go to sleep and then you'll be fine, just know that it will take a few days.

EDIT: Yes keep the crate in your bedroom if you're not already doing so so she can hear you breathe and knows that you're there.

It's the owner that needs to learn how to train the dog, so sending it away to be trained means it will work for the trainer, but when it gets home the owner will probably do everything wrong and the dog will not respond correctly. Learn how to train your dog obedience https://tr.im/trainyourdog

Part of the fun in having a well trained dog is learning to train it correctly yourself. That is also the most rewarding. Some people send dogs away for specialist training, like sheep herding, protection work or gundog training, but even then, that is the lazy way out and good trainers do their own training to get what they want from their own dogs.

However it is always more productive to train your dog under a good instructor, especially if you are not experienced

lemikam said most everything I wanted to say. I just wanted to add that taking the puppy out of the crate or responding to it when it cries only ENCOURAGES it to cry louder next time. She's crying to get your attention. If it works, then she's going to keep crying when she wants your attention.

Crate training is the best way to keep a puppy safe. If you let her sleep on your bed she could wake up in the middle of the night and chew on things that are not good for her - like electric chords.

Well take her out for more than 15 minutes at night. You said she goes in an is quiet when she is tired...well wear her out before bed. Spend 30 minutes to an hour outside actively playing with her.

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Most dogs do this! i dont know why they do this off the top of my head BUT you can try some stuff to make her stop!

fill an empty water bottle with boiling hot water and put it in her cage! (it feels like her mom) also put lots of pillows in there so it feels like shes's sleeping with her pack :) i know that will work!

Hello,

Understanding how to train your dog and how to correct bad behaviours is very important. That's why I suggest to follow a good training course. There are plenty of books and training material. One online course I recommend (I like it because it has hundreds of videos) is http://www.goobypls.com/r/rd.asp?gid=572

It helped me a lot.

Hope it helps.