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Neighbour's puppy crying for hours at night

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JFDIYOLO · 11/08/2025 23:43

I haven't seen him yet but the crying is awful. It sounds like a panic attack, desperate yelping howling breathless sounds that go on and on for ages until I assume he falls asleep.

My OH saw them the other day and they apologised for the noise saying they were doing something called crate training and they thought it should be done in a few weeks.

He was quiet for some days but it's happening again now.

He sounds desperately distressed and it's quite upsetting.

Anyone know what crate training and is it ok to do? How does it usually go?

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JFDIYOLO · 13/08/2025 00:28

Not a sound from him tonight, I'm hoping they've decided not to continue

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OnlyHerefortheBiscuits · 13/08/2025 06:41

Here's hoping!

With any luck they just learned a steep lesson about following advice as gospel no matter what and won't make the same mistake again in future on something else

Twiglets1 · 13/08/2025 08:31

Crates are fashionable at the moment but we didn’t use them with our older dog so equally had no desire to use them when we got another puppy.

Our pups both just slept in their beds in the kitchen ( tiled floor for accidents). Tbh they both did cry for one or two nights when they first got left alone. I would have been broken if they had cried a third night but they didn’t - even the second night was much reduced.

The situation with your neighbour’s puppy sounds like abuse. I would be reporting them to the RSPCA and also talking to them myself about it explaining people that use crates shouldn’t lock dogs in them overnight & their puppies distress is terrible to hear. Maybe they regret getting the puppy and should be encouraged to consider rehoming.

CellophaneFlower · 17/08/2025 09:51

AWitchAndHerBitch · 12/08/2025 05:54

It's absolutely appalling that this is considered an acceptable form of training, but unfortunately it is. Crating for hours on end is bad for a dog's mental and physical development, but has sadly become the norm. People are against battery hens or zoos, but seem to think it fine to keep a young puppy sitting in its own waste in a cage inside their home. This pup has been taken away from its mother and siblings and is now being left to cry in a small box from 10pm to 7am in the name of "training". How is this humane?

All our dogs (and we've had 9) have been free range from the first night with us. With our current pup, we've actually had two different neighbours comment that they never hear her, because she hardly ever makes a sound. Free range pups house train quickly and develop adult behaviours quite early. Ours have access to kichen and orangery at night. We've had no problems with soiling or chewing and no disturbed nights. One of us sleeps on the sofa for the first few nights pup is here and we use dog gates and keep doors open so pup can be heard and reassured.

(Name changed because I know from past experience that the pro-crate people will come out with the usual propaganda about how it needs to be done "properly" but some here will know who I am)

I know who you are 😜

I bought a crate for my pup but removed the door and planned to use it as her quiet place. It was within a penned in area of the lounge. She ended up going in the crate about twice and hated being in the pen, so I ended up puppy proofing the entire lounge and this became her space 🙄😂 I also penned an area with the dining table in for the kids to play with lego etc in... so subsequently we all ended up in a pen and pup had full run of downstairs 🤦‍♀️

The crate remains as it was expensive, quite attractive as crates go, and I haven't got round to selling it yet... but it's currently a dog toy cupboard 😂

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