Does the screaming stop
Im sure this will bring a lot of judgement... but I'm going to discuss it anyway because I feel like I might lose my mind ! !
17 week old female puppy. I have had her for 4 weeks so I know we're still
learning and adjusting to each other. She is not my first dog, but she is my first dutch shepherd. My first dog is 3, belgian mal mix (rescue). We found her around the same age we got the dutch shepherd puppy (13 weeks).
I know every dog is different and I cant have the same expectations but this dutch shepherd screaming in her crate is something I was fortunate enough to not experience with my first dog.
Every night she goes pee at 11 and then goes to bed in the crate. Sometimes she protests but never more than 7 minutes (yes, I timed it). Every morning at 4:30 the screaming starts. I understand its my own fault because the first time she started at 4:30 I panicked and flew out of bed to take her outside thinking she needed to potty (and I waited for her to stop crying before I let her out). The last 4 days Ive been trying to ignore her because when we go out, she plays with sticks and runs around (so she does not need to potty that bad, IMO).
Today, she screamed from 4:30-5:30. I finally got up (after waiting for her to be quiet) and she ran around outside for 20 mins before she peed. Im just appalled. My first dog never made a peep in the crate from day 1 (I know I probably got very lucky with that).
Im sure there are people who will tell me, this is what you signed up for; dogs do this why didn't you research etc. and I expected protesting in the crate but by week 4 I did hope to see some improvement and thus far there has been none.
The crate is in a different room from us. During the day she goes in with little protesting. I guess my question is what am I doing wrong? Or do I need to just suck up and expect this for the next little while?
I am working with a trainer and have resources to help me but when I brought this up they indicated dutchies have fomo and to lower my expectations so I thought I would ask the broader community to see if there is something im missing
So sorry for the long winded post. Im probably overtired and have puppy blues and making a problem out of very normal behaviour but here we are🥹