hi i have a puppy vizsla who every time he goes in his crate and the door shut he will howl cry all the time until your return has any one got any ideas on how to stop it any help thanks

fill a toy kong up with food ,this will take his mind off howling beacuse he be chewing instead ,or give him a chew,atoy,put a radio on so he things there someone around.BUT dont go back to him while he howling only open the door of the cage when he stop howling,
or he got 1 over you.

i have filled a kong , i already leave radio on all the time and i have also tryed leaving an article of my clothes with him and he still howls,crys

if nothing else works youle have to ignore him,you going to him is telling him the more noise i make the quicker mum will come! itl be hard and it wnt happen over night but if you percever hele give up in the end! x

i fed both of mine there meals  in the crates when they were puppies. how long do leave him in the crate.put the crate in the same room as you so he can always see you, dont close the door every time he is in it. good luck

jackbox

Try throwing a blanket over it so only the door end is uncovered.  This sometimes helps it to feel more cosy and secure.
Sandra

Oh dear - it looks like he's already decided the crate is not a nice place to be :(  How old is he and how did you introduce the crate in the first place?  Under what circumstances is he in the crate - is it because you are out?  If so, how long is he in it for.......

he is only 9 weeks old i know he still a baby he was brought up in a crate.
we only shut the door when we go out or to bed  he is normaly only in the crate up to  about 2hr at a time he is ok if you lay there with him its when he see that you have moved, also tried covering the crate with no luck.

I'd guess when he was in a crate with his breeder, he was with his siblings and possibly his mother?  Now has has this great big space all to himself, in this strange new house, and the only time he's shut in is when he's abandoned on his own.......  If you look at it from the pups point of view, your asking him to get used to a very different situation to that which he was used to :(.  Some of the methods you've tried will help in the long run,but the best way is to let the pup learn for himself that really nice things happen ONLY when he's in the crate, and for the time being that no bad things happen - ie, he gets fed in the crate, but the door doesn't get shut and he doesn't get left alone.  This way he'll grow up secure and confident.  IT should only take a couple of weeks maximum for him to learn this if approached properly, and then you will truly have a 'crate trained' puppy which will make life a lot asier for you and him.......

one extra suggestion is you only put him in his crae when it is time for hime to rest.  My pups soon learn they have to go in the crate when it is sleep time, I feed/exercise/play etc and then when my puppy is sleepy it goes in it's crate to sleep and (touch wood) I get at least 6 hours sleepy before it is 'out for wee's' time again

Your lucky Caz, I do the same with my 9 week old addition, had her since she was 7wks.She goes in only for sleep time and I'm lucky if I get 1 hour :D

As i have said in another post, i put my pups next door to my older lass at bed time. That way there is another dog near by.
I also feed all meals in the crate, leave a kong and a couple of toys, clean water and then its up to them.

Being sentimental wont get you anywhere. If everything else fails you'll just have to ride it out. He will shut up eventually lol.

Good luck.

i dont know if this will help, have you tried putting a clock wrapped up in cloth in his crate with a warm water bottle wrapped up, he might think it's one of his litter mates then.  Did the breeder give you a piece of cloth or a toy or something which smells familar to his last home this would comfort him.

Following on from Franks idea you can actually get 'toys' that have a heater and beating heart in them to keep puppy company.

Dmbear, I just wanted to let you know that your not alone.  I too have a 9 week old Vizsla pup. She is a joy 90% of the time, sleeps in her crate at night but whilst at work and she has to be crated she is a nightmare, she cries and cries coz she thinks she's missing out on things.  At the moment we are trying to leave her in it for only short periods of time and IGNORING HER. This is not easy but i am assure that after a couple of weeks she'll get used to the fact that i only come back when she's quiet.

thanks to every ones response he is getting a lot better know will bark for about 2-3 min then goes quiet 2 1/2 hour later a little more bark then quiet again and at night he just about sleeps though the night just the odd little noise so thanks for everyone help