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Where is the crate located? Our dog hated his crate when it was in the kitchen and would whine and bark all night. One night we moved it into our bedroom and he didn't make a peep. He stopped barking and whining altogether during the day too.

If you cover it with a blanket it will help. At least it did for our girl when she was little. You can also shove some extra pillows in the back so it is more cave like. I also agree with moving it to your bedroom. That's what we did with Lucky, we moved her out to the living room once she was a little older.

@irunforfun make sure there is proper ventilation, you may want to try a lightweight fleece that offers a bit of noise/light blocking. I would also check in with the place where you adopted him, they want to be sure adoptions are successful. Do you have water available to him in there?

I don't know if our puppy barked when we left the house but he would bark up a storm in the morning when he woke up at 6am. We tried let him 'bark it out' and ignore him so that he didn't think barking would get him his way, but it never worked. after an hour or two we'd give up and go downstairs to him and he'd stop. He stopped barking at all when he woke up once we moved the crate into our room.

For leaving during the day we got him a kong and put peanut butter in it and give it to him every time we left. He's so into the peanut butter he doesn't even care that we're gone. Once you establish a routine with leaving and returning he should be better. He just needs to know that you're coming back and havent abandoned him. If we leave our dog during the day on the weekend out of our work routine he barks for a bit sometimes (we can hear him as we leave the garage/house) but we're not sure how long he barks for.

No advice as we didn't really crate train but I just want to say what a cutie! I can't resist puppy dog eyes!

He's a pretty dog! We successfully crate trained our dog and she doesn't bark or cry in it. We never used the crate for punishment, left it open when not in use so she'd go in it, and we always give a treat and say "time to sleep" when she gets in. Sounds like you're doing all of this. We would place her in her crate with us in the room and we ignored her if she cried. Once she was silent for 10 minutes straight, we would let her out. At night or when we were leaving her, we would give her a kong with pb in it to entertain her so she wouldn't get upset at us leaving her. These items worked really well. After a few months, we woke up to her barking at 5-6 am every morning and we thought she just needed to potty. She never had to go. We finally realized she was waking up and upset at being alone. (she was downstairs in her crate and we were upstairs) We moved her crate into our room and she didn't wake up early and bark anymore. And I echo the above comment about plenty of exercise to tire him out! Good luck!

I have a Catahoula mix too! He used to whine in his crate but we made it a point to never let him out until he was quiet and he always gets a treat when we put him in. I would suggest a Kong too. We fill it with PB or yogurt and freeze it and the moment I open the freezer drawer my `1 year old pup runs to his crate. A routine definitely helps and it will get better as he gets older. I promise!

I was going to suggest moving the crate as well. When we first got our puppy we lived in an apartment and I kept the crate in the 2nd bedroom. He barked a ton. Once I moved the crate into our room at night and into the main living area during the day he was soooo much better!

The 5-6 hours of sleep then needing to go out made me laugh. We got our dog just over a year before having our LO and I totally equated puppy toilet training (overnight) to having a newborn.

This isn't going to make you feel better, but my rescue dog did the same thing. Honestly, I couldn't fix the issue until she was a little older and got over the separation anxiety. Time was the only thing that worked for us. I think she got over the barking at about a year old? But my dog was abandoned 3 times before I adopted her at six months, so her issues were severe.

She just needed to understand that I would leave and then I would come back. So anything you can do to reinforce that in increasing increments is good. Once she got the hang of the fact that the crate meant she was going to a safe place until I returned, she got on board. She got to the point where whenever she saw me put my makeup in the morning, she'd go into the crate on her own.

I tried all the tricks. In act, she ate the blanket I put in there with her for comfort and she had a bowel obstruction she needed surgery for! While she enjoyed her Kongs, once they were empty, she'd just start barking. Covering the crate didn't help either.

One thing she still cannot abide (and she is 11 now) is being crated when someone is home. To her, the deal is that she is crated to be safe when she's alone. So if someone else is home, she's gonna bark it out and let them know. My roommates complained about the barking until we all realized what the problem was and after that, they'd just let her roam around the house until they left too. I don't know if perhaps your dog can hear your neighbor and so she thinks someone else is home too or that it scares here to hear other people moving about?