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Hey, I know this is a long post but I'm just trying to describe everything for a clean answer. I'm a first time dog owner and I've been crate training my 9 week old pit bull mix Ash at nights and getting him comfortable with it during the day, just made it through the 4th night now. He will gladly eat his food in the crate whether its in a bowl or I'm playing training games with him like tossing the food or chew or treats into the crate, also trying to get him to wait at the door until I say it's alright to come out. I should say I'm crating him in my room due to living in a 2 bedroom town home because I don't want to make my room mate endure the brutal attack of sounds that comes from Ash. This also makes it easier to take him out for a boring potty break to try and keep his energy down.
He gets a ton of exercise during the day. I play with him and do small training sessions during the day until about 11 or 12 then bring him to work. I work at a gymnastics facility so he gets to run around the gym before and after classes for as long as he wants to get his energy out before we get home around 8-9pm then try to get to bed around 10-11pm.
First question is how long did you all have to wait before the full night time of whining turned more tolerable? Currently the whining consists of howling loudly then whining a bit then some silence but mostly just him being extremely loud. He speaks a lot during the day but doesn't bark or howl for some reason but he definitely saves it for the night time...
Second question is has anyone used something to keep the crate den like and also sound proof for him and for my room mate and my sanity so we dont start speaking to shadow people due to sleep deprivation lol. Obviously trying to keep it still breathable for obvious reasons. Right now i layer his crate with blankets like a crate cover then shove towels at my room door to try and block the sound from escaping the room too much. I ordered a moving blanket after doing some research on sound proofing so planning on hanging that over the sides of his crate instead of the blankets when it gets here.
😄 NIGHT 5 UPDATE 😄
Here's an update on the nightly happenings. I got afraid of the chair/ desk idea, too much worry about him knocking the crate off and hurting himself. Almost through night 5 currently, it's 4:30am and randomly woke up around 4:20am to silence which was out of the ordinary. I forgot to set my alarm but I have been waking up at the smallest ones he makes the last 4 nights so I wasn't worried. He was even asleep when I woke up. I'll have to ask my room mate when he wakes up If he heard any commotion but I didn't hear any. At 4:20am I took him out for a potty break which I woke him up for. I feel bad about waking him up but since he's transitioning to new more high quality food he's free flowing if you know what I mean. Anyway after the potty break I put him back in his crate, maybe 1min. of whining later and he's asleep again. Breakthrough or coincidence or luck? I don't care he (and I) had a good nights sleep!!!
My theory is since I've been taking him to work the last two days and keeping him mostly awake during the day besides the naps he needed after some long exercise and training, plus him whining so long the previous nights he finally realized night time is for sleeping. I guess we'll see about the coming nights but me and my ear drums were happy to get some rest.
He gets a ton of exercise during the day. I play with him and do small training sessions during the day until about 11 or 12 then bring him to work. I work at a gymnastics facility so he gets to run around the gym before and after classes for as long as he wants to get his energy out before we get home around 8-9pm then try to get to bed around 10-11pm.
First question is how long did you all have to wait before the full night time of whining turned more tolerable? Currently the whining consists of howling loudly then whining a bit then some silence but mostly just him being extremely loud. He speaks a lot during the day but doesn't bark or howl for some reason but he definitely saves it for the night time...
Second question is has anyone used something to keep the crate den like and also sound proof for him and for my room mate and my sanity so we dont start speaking to shadow people due to sleep deprivation lol. Obviously trying to keep it still breathable for obvious reasons. Right now i layer his crate with blankets like a crate cover then shove towels at my room door to try and block the sound from escaping the room too much. I ordered a moving blanket after doing some research on sound proofing so planning on hanging that over the sides of his crate instead of the blankets when it gets here.
😄 NIGHT 5 UPDATE 😄
Here's an update on the nightly happenings. I got afraid of the chair/ desk idea, too much worry about him knocking the crate off and hurting himself. Almost through night 5 currently, it's 4:30am and randomly woke up around 4:20am to silence which was out of the ordinary. I forgot to set my alarm but I have been waking up at the smallest ones he makes the last 4 nights so I wasn't worried. He was even asleep when I woke up. I'll have to ask my room mate when he wakes up If he heard any commotion but I didn't hear any. At 4:20am I took him out for a potty break which I woke him up for. I feel bad about waking him up but since he's transitioning to new more high quality food he's free flowing if you know what I mean. Anyway after the potty break I put him back in his crate, maybe 1min. of whining later and he's asleep again. Breakthrough or coincidence or luck? I don't care he (and I) had a good nights sleep!!!
My theory is since I've been taking him to work the last two days and keeping him mostly awake during the day besides the naps he needed after some long exercise and training, plus him whining so long the previous nights he finally realized night time is for sleeping. I guess we'll see about the coming nights but me and my ear drums were happy to get some rest.