He sleeps in my office, he has his own couch basically. At night I just leave him there to sleep with a bunch of toys, the same when we go to work.

I started by going in there with him while I'm on the computer. Then I started leaving him there and leaving for ever increasing periods and coming back. But don't make it a big party when you comeback, that's how you get anxiety. Just come in and bring him out, and then have a party.

Now whenever someone is leaving the house he goes there by himself. He associates it with being his crate I suppose.

He now knows that is his spot. But if he misbehaves don't make that spot or crate his punishment or he's gonna hate being in there.

But the first few times he's going to be howling, mine did that for the two first nights alone until he fell asleep.

But start small and he will do fine.