hi my new puppy is barking constantly at night what can i do to stop her???? please help im so tired heheh! oh she is 8weeks old. (staffy)

Is she left alone at night and is that where you intend to keep her when she gets older?
If so, then I suggest you leave a radio on low volume and put something with your scent into her bed with her which should help.  She is missing her littermates and is all alone in a strange house.

Now, if you intend to let her go into your room at night when she is an adult, you might as well do that now.  Or maybe put a dog gate at your bedroom door with her bed the other side so that she can see you.

do what i did, put her in your bed, good nights sleep all round after all she is just a baby!

She has, after all, spent her whole life up to this point with her mum and her littermates. Suddenly she is alone in a strange environment - wouldn't you get upset? She will get used to her new home, but it will take time.

everyone has their own way but what I did was have a crate next to me bed that my pup slept in, if she needed to go to the toilet she would wake me up, I would take her out into the garden without saying anything until she went to the toilet then praised her loads, took her back upstairs without saying anything again and put her to bed.  She woke me up once a night for about 2 weeks, then went straight through the night.  At about 3 months old her crate was moved from beside the bed and closers to the door, at 4 months it was moved out onto the landing where the other two dogs sleep and then from about 5 months she was allowed out of the crate and has free run over the house.  This has worked brilliantly for me and we have had no problems. 

Try putting her to bed with a radio on low so she can hear something. I leave ours occasionally and they do not bark at stuff outside with the radio on. Mainly talking rather than music, or crate by the bed is good I would think.

> do what i did, put her in your bed, good nights sleep all round after all she is just a baby

LOL exactly what I did, and it doesn't always have to mean they will stay there forever!! Louis is nearly 9 months now and will often choose to sleep on the floor in his own bed :) but when OH is on nights you will definately find him with his head on my pillow snoring his head off :-D

> everyone has their own way but what I did was have a crate next to me bed that my pup slept in, if she needed to go to the toilet she would wake me up, I would take her out into the garden without saying anything until she went to the toilet then praised her loads, took her back upstairs without saying anything again and put her to bed.  She woke me up once a night for about 2 weeks, then went straight through the night.  At about 3 months old her crate was moved from beside the bed and closers to the door, at 4 months it was moved out onto the landing where the other two dogs sleep and then from about 5 months she was allowed out of the crate and has free run over the house.  This has worked brilliantly for me and we have had no problems.

I did this too, worked brilliant for me too, I recommend it to anyone who ever asks how to make a pup feel less alone those first few days they're with you. I'd have had her in bed with me, but there wasn't room as the big'uns were there already ;) LOL

we did this too, a few weeks with us then in the crate int the kitchen with our older dog, now the two of them sleep happily in the kitchen together. At 8 weeks it is still a baby and needs company, its not spoiling the puppy just helping it to adjust :-)

Although I bred Anton he was born at my parents.  When I brought him back here it took me 4 weeks before he'd finally go to sleep on his own.  What I had to do is put him in his crate and stay with him until he eventualy fell asleep and then creap up to my bed, it didn't take long then for him to go to sleep on his own.

Calida my new pup is fantastic.  She comes here for a long weekend each week and sleeps within seconds of her whimpering and I don't hear anything until about 8ish the next day.

don't worry it does get easier.  At any point in the first month of getting my staffy I would have given her back as the tiredness was killing me - never mind the biting, chewing, peeing and pooing on the carpet etc etc  It is well worth sticking it out as your staffy will be an amazing companion.  Good luck

We have always done the same as Dakkobear.  With us for a while then downstairs with the rest of the gang.

my new pup went in with the other two ( in a crate with the door open ) from day one and has been great from the beginning.

By the bed for me too.... works a treat and pup learns to ask to 'go out' so quickly.

As someone else said, sit with your puppy (not on your lap but in its bed or crate) until it goes to sleep. I leave the door open and kip a little further away each night till I rediscover my bedroom.  Kinda works the other way around to having the dog start by sleeping in your bedroom.  They do eventually realise you wont run away in the night. Gets easier the more you have - 8 now - :-)

We put Nemo in his bed in the kitchen with a puppy gate across the door, and for the first few days slept on the sofa in the room next door.  Within a week he was fine getting to sleep, although still woke up a couple of times during the night to be let out. That lasted until he was about 9 months old, since when he's slept through.