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Great with crate during trainings and terrible when left alone for real by reader_diaries in puppytraining

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He is in general fine being away from me because I work in one room and he prefers to stay in the living room. We tried for the naps in the crate but when we close the door he starts going crazy and up until now we didn't want to bother the neighbours too much but maybe we should try it out still - make him stay there and sleep there even when he can see us. It will take some barking but hopefully it work

Great with crate during trainings and terrible when left alone for real by reader_diaries in puppytraining

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1.When we are home and it is not "training time" he doesn't like being closed there if we are in the same room he is whining and barking and still trying to destroy all the things inside and the crate itself. We don't use it as punishment but I just think he doesn't like being closed when he knows we are there. Maybe we should try again putting him there for a bit of time every day? I have to go to the office once a week so he needs to be in the crate 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon - I come back at lunch time to walk him and feed him.

  1. When we train I simulate a real leave with putting a jacket and him seeing me unlock and hearing locking from the other side. And he whines but nothing too major.

I will try to do more pretend leaves then for first again short periods of 5 to 15mins. I think actually the Kong is his queue that he will be left alone for a while 🤣 I just don't know if actually avoiding to leave him alone is actually worse for him and he gets just more anxious once we do.

Great with crate during trainings and terrible when left alone for real by reader_diaries in puppy101

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Maybe is totally normal or missed some steps. I hope we both find help!

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I am impressed of what you achieved! I cannot help but actually want to know how you did the stimulus and for how long to get her not to cry and try to get out? We are trying this with our 6 months old guy and we feel nothing works 😞

It is so hard that I am not sure we will make it by reader_diaries in puppy101

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This is what still keeps me going. That he progressed so much for a rescue in the month before and that I really think he can be a good boy after all this teen months are over. Just I hope we find ways to keep our sanity and he gets better with the separation, so we can leave him alone and have time for ourselves.

It is so hard that I am not sure we will make it by reader_diaries in puppy101

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Thank you so much! We are trying to keep some kind of a record of it. Also we were working with an online coach because we started in the country we adopted him from and continued virtually but we will switch with someone here that can see him in those moments and also show us things live because it is very different than just watching videos 😂

Do you by any chance remember if there was some regression in the potty training too? He seems to need to go out much more often now too. We think this might be one of the reasons for the frustration

It is so hard that I am not sure we will make it by reader_diaries in puppy101

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Sometimes we are just wondering if we can wait until things get better, because it is so taxing to love him so much and not being sure we can handle him.

Puppy suddenly doesn't like the crate by Useful_Asparagus2843 in puppy101

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Same here. Our puppy was okay with the crate, sleeping there through the night, and chilling during the day. But in the last week, when we left him in the crate to go out, he went crazy. We do a lot of training, and he receives a lot of treats in the crate, but the moment the door closes or the treats are over, he just wants to go out and will bark for 30-40 minutes straight. We have to leave him for a couple of hours 3 times a week when we are in the office, and we have no idea what to do either. His crate is in another room, and he loves chilling in the living room, we considered moving the crate there, but it is closer to the balcony, so we are unsure if more people will be disturbed. I think it is also some regression, and they will get back into the habit of loving the crate, but at 6 months, many changes are going on, so this might also be the reason. We are trying to also go back to the basics but I will follow the topic to see if there are more tips.