Anxiety in crate at night
Hi! We rescued our 2 year old maltipoo six months ago. He is a love bug and a Velcro dog. We are successful with crate training him when we leave the house during the day and he appears to show very little distress (he might bark a couple of times as we’re locking up the house). About a month ago he had a stomach flare up and my husband and I took turns sleeping with him on the couch for a week just for quick access to the backyard if he needed to go potty in the middle of the night. Ever since then he will cry and bark at night until one of us caves and sleeps with him on the couch. We take him out to potty first, put him back in the crate and then he cries and barks again until we give in and sleep on the couch. Nobody is getting any sleep. We moved the location of his crate at night from the hallway outside of our bedroom into the bedroom next to ours. We tried ignoring him cry and bark during the night and twice he has worked himself up from all of the crying and has had diarrhea the next morning. If anyone has any experience with anxiety at night I’d truly appreciate any advice on how we can train him out of this! We did not mean to create such a clingy guy!