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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 535672" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Think of crying in the crate as you would a baby crying when you put them down into a crib. It helps, and basically it's the same thing. Maggie does cry in her crate, but as long as I know her needs have been met, I ignore her. Draping a sheet over the crate helps, gives it that "den" feeling. They just need to get used to it. Maggie doesn't carrying on too long right now unless she needs something.....like to potty. Now when she's bigger and wants to play more, that will change for a period of time. (usually not too long but it's because they don't want to stop playing to nap like a baby doesn't want to stop playing to nap) By 6 mos mine are always well done with the I cry cuz I wanna play thing. Usually way earlier than that......but I had one that went on that long..........her name was Molly. LOL We just had to make certain she was worn out before putting her into her crate. But she never learned to love it, she only learned to tolerated it, heck I don't think she even liked it that much. Because the girls snuck her into the bunkbeds........she never learned to sleep in it at night, so hers was just when I couldn't watch her or when we had to leave. </p><p></p><p>Right now Maggie is so very young, she sleeps far more than she's awake.......like she plays 10 mins and konks out for more than an hour. So I've somewhat adjusted the putting her into the crate to sleep thing a bit because I want her to get familiar with being inside and with me and Molly. As long as she's right with me sleeping, I'm not putting her into the crate. I may change that after a few days of settling in. I'm also going to have her use Molly's sleeping towel in her crate. Because it smells like Molly, she's grown fond of it. Molly won't mind........she has her blanket and I can always give her another towel. She's not picky about such things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 535672, member: 84"] Think of crying in the crate as you would a baby crying when you put them down into a crib. It helps, and basically it's the same thing. Maggie does cry in her crate, but as long as I know her needs have been met, I ignore her. Draping a sheet over the crate helps, gives it that "den" feeling. They just need to get used to it. Maggie doesn't carrying on too long right now unless she needs something.....like to potty. Now when she's bigger and wants to play more, that will change for a period of time. (usually not too long but it's because they don't want to stop playing to nap like a baby doesn't want to stop playing to nap) By 6 mos mine are always well done with the I cry cuz I wanna play thing. Usually way earlier than that......but I had one that went on that long..........her name was Molly. LOL We just had to make certain she was worn out before putting her into her crate. But she never learned to love it, she only learned to tolerated it, heck I don't think she even liked it that much. Because the girls snuck her into the bunkbeds........she never learned to sleep in it at night, so hers was just when I couldn't watch her or when we had to leave. Right now Maggie is so very young, she sleeps far more than she's awake.......like she plays 10 mins and konks out for more than an hour. So I've somewhat adjusted the putting her into the crate to sleep thing a bit because I want her to get familiar with being inside and with me and Molly. As long as she's right with me sleeping, I'm not putting her into the crate. I may change that after a few days of settling in. I'm also going to have her use Molly's sleeping towel in her crate. Because it smells like Molly, she's grown fond of it. Molly won't mind........she has her blanket and I can always give her another towel. She's not picky about such things. [/QUOTE]
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