Puppy crying and barking at night

[LittleGoose000]

Hi I recently got a puppy 5 days ago, she is 10 weeks old and she has cried and barked all night every night and I don't know what to do! I am so tired. Has anyone got any tips?

She has a crate and it has a soft bed in and loads of chew toys and a teddy to snuggle into. I've also tried covering at night.

A warm water bottle wrapped in a blanket might help, and a ticking clock wrapped in a blanket (mimics mothers warmth and heartbeat) otherwise just try and ignore the behavior, she'll soon settle x

She wants to sleep on the bed with you, that would stop her crying.

Thank you mrspicklepants27 I will try that.

Rudgie47 I have considered this but I want to try and get her housetrained first.

Don't let her sleep on your bed with you, she's a puppy and needs training. Once she's trained and settled let her sleep where you like but right now allowing her onto your bed is a terrible idea

That's why I haven't caved yet mrspicklepants27. Although last night after 5 nights of no sleep I was close

My puppy did this for 2 weeks. Eventually I took the cage upstairs and he slept in it in my bedroom and that stopped the crying.

Are you taking her to the toilet? Or does she do it in the crate? My 13 week old puppy only just started sleeping through (well to 5am so still not great).
Before that he would cry to go toilet 3/4 times a night.

I slept downstairs on the sofa (with pup in his crate) for the first few nights he was with us. When he cried, I would speak to reassure him but not reward the crying by getting up to him. This seemed to work quite well in that he would settle knowing I was there, and I was able to go back to sleeping in my bed within the week, although I still had to get up to let him out to toilet.

I'm taking her out to the toilet. She hasn't done anything in the crate for the last 2 nights. But she had diarrhoea the first few days so couldn't hold it at all.

Can you put a jumper or t shirt you have worn (so it has your smell/scent on it) in his crate. Then he has your familiar smell near him. But only put it in there at night don't leave it in there

I was recommended this whrn my 6 month old puppy was chewing the house when left alone and it really worked.

I sat with my puppy until he settled when we first got him, and then when he cried went in again and resettled him. I did the late shift and dh did the early one (usually included several hours of him and pup on the sofa). It's not really surprising that many puppies struggle when moving from sleeping with a heap of other pups next to their mums to an empty cage. Make it easier for her and you'll soon be getting more sleep.

Is she actually crate trained?

Ours did this for months, until we moved his bed upstairs. When next dpup arrives they will be coming upstairs straight away as well.

tabulahrasa I am trying to crate train her.

I am indoors most of the time so she doesn't need to be in there but I wanted her to use the crate for night time and when I go to the shops or do the school run. She is already a 1st class chewer!

I think you need to work at making the crate a positive place for puppy to go both in the day and at night. Not somewhere she has to go when she's left alone.

You need to do the crate training first and leaving her in it to cry will undo anything you’ve done towards that so far.

I slept by the crate for the first couple of nights and just shushed him when he cried. Gradually I then slept in the living room for a couple more nights so he could still hear me shush him but after that he slept fine and I went back to bed. However we did get rid of the crate at around 7/8 months and he happily sleeps on the landing now from when we go to bed til we wake. You could also try a snuggle puppy. They are a teddy with a heartbeat and a heat pad inside. I am
Convinced this helped to settle him too.

Oh ok, see that you taking her to the toilet. I have no other suggestions as very new to puppyhood myself. Hang in there littlegoose, things hopefully will start to improve soon.
I have a tip for runny tum, as we went through this also, I've been using pro kolin paste morning and evening and it's sorted out my puppy's tum.

She doesn’t want to be alone. Move the crate to your bedroom for the nights and slowly over a few weeks move it further from your bed until it’s outside, this will take time until she’s comfortable.

We had this with our boy when we first got him and on the advice of our puppy trainer, moved his puppy pen into my bedroom. He slept like a dream from then on, as he wasn't alone and could hear and smell me at night. He stayed like this until 7/8 months, when he started making a fuss to come out in the small hours. He was completely house-trained way before that so I just took the pen away. He now sleeps either on my bed or if it's warmer weather, on the floor, but if you don't ever want your pup in the bedroom, my suggestion would be to move the crate towards and then gradually out of the bedroom door, until you have it where you want him to sleep.

I second putting something in that smells of you.

I remember years ago being kept awake all night by our puppy doing the same. My dad kept telling me to put something in that smelt of me but I didn’t as I thought..surely she doesn’t know me well enough for that to be a comfort yet. The next night in sheer desperation I pulled off the nightie I was wearing, put it in the cage and went back to bed. Didn’t hear a peep out of her after that and woke in the morning to find her curled up with her nose buried in it. Wish I had of listened sooner!

The blue item you can see in the pic is her with said nightie

Clothing is definitely going in tonight!! Thank you all for the advice. I've got plenty to try.

She's an angel in the day.

Oh she’s gorgeous