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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the person who posted yesterday about picking up their puppy. The day went great, and our 9 week old Samoyed is adorable in every way.

However, I'm a bit worried about crate-training:
The last time the puppy drank was at 6:30pm, did one pee at 7pm. Howled, and cried and protested mightily when we crated him for the night at 8:20. Went on for an hour, kids couldn't go to sleep at the usual time (thank goodness we're doing this on vacation).

Question: when he starts whining during the night, as I'm sure he will, do I take that as a sign he wants to pee, or will it be emotional upset? Do I take him out just in case?

Any advice and support welcome! Thank you.[/quote]

Congrats on the new puppy!  I just got a pup about 3 weeks ago, and am also crate training.  9 weeks is still super young, they can’t hold their bladders more than a couple hours. I’ve gotten up with mine; I take her straight outside, put her down, she goes, straight back in the crate.  Puppies sleep deeply once they fall asleep and I have found that if mine is still sleepy for midnight potty trips she will happily go back to her crate to sleep.

I might have gotten lucky with mine and crating but now at about 14 weeks she sleeps from about 11:00 to 6ish without asking to go out...  the first week and a half or so she got me up once in the middle of the night and was fine for 3-4 hrs.  I’ve actually gotten her up a couple times because I woke up anyway and knew she would probably want out in the next hour or two.  That’s worked well; she had one accident her first night and I felt terrible that she’d had to soil the crate, I think it’s better to lose a little sleep and if the crying is just for attention put her back in her crate.

Slightly off topic but if she’s crying and it’s not needing to potty, she may just be having a hard time settling in.  I saw a big improvement in her sleep by changing her bedding- I had a crate pad and a blanket to start but found that she was burrowing under the pad for warmth (the House is at 68 at night, so I wasn’t being awful to her though I felt terrible..). I bought a self heating pet mat from amazon , and now have: a blanket folded over; the crate padded mat next; the warming blanket/mat ; a fleece blanket on top. It sounds like a lot and some dogs might chew the self heating mat (one side is Mylar ), but it’s been a big help for mine.

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