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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, all,
First-time dog owner here. We recently adopted a wonderful one-year old Basset mix, and things are going really well. The only problem is that this past week, she has started crying in her crate all. night. long. We've been using the crate at night since we got her three weeks ago, and it's only this past week that she's had a problem at night. She just cries and cries. My heart is breaking for her, but I don't know what to do -- all the resources I've read say not to reward her by letting her out.

Here are a couple options I've considered:

1) Letting her sleep on her bed in our room with us. This would be fine with me, and she's not destructive, so she'd probably sleep through the night peacefully, BUT she's not 100% potty trained, and I'm afraid she'd have an accident in our room overnight.

2) Bringing her crate into our room. Maybe she'd be okay if she knew she was close to us? On the other hand, if she cried, we'd REALLY not get any sleep and we'd be forced to reward her by letting her out.

Of course, I guess we could try gutting it out and letting her cry another night, but a) it feels cruel; and b) I haven't gotten more than a few hours of sleep over the past few days, and I feel like a total zombie. I need to be able to function better than this at work and at home.

Any suggestions? I'm kind of at my wits end.

Thanks in advance![/quote]

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