Sleeping With Puppy

I have been a puppy mom for a little over 48 hours now. It's going well. Puppy is adjusting. She is only 7 1/2 weeks, which is VERY young for a puppy, so she pretty much eats, sleeps, goes to the bathroom and cries. Her cry is more of a squeal/yelp/howl, which sounds like she is being tortured. She made that awful noise the entire 45 minute car ride home, and pretty much the first 2 hours she was at home. But gradually, she adjusted to her puppy bed, and then the kitchen, dining room, living room, downstairs, upstairs, etc. It was a long day of introducing her to new rooms, letting her nap, feeding her, taking her outside and then repeating the process. But now she is pretty well adjusted to my house, my roommates and to me, so she is crying less.

Her kennel is in my bedroom because I didn't want her to be afraid, and the books said that if you can talk to the puppy, she will calm down and go to sleep. On Sunday night, I put her in her kennel and she fell right to sleep. She woke up around midnight and I took her outside, but then she slept until 6:30. Dog owning= easy.

Wrong.

Monday night, I put her in her kennel, got into bed and then spent the next 20 minutes listening to her squeal. Talking to her didn't help, ignoring her didn't help. It was awful. The following video is of her making the most awful noise around. I can't seem to get it to flip upright, but the noise is the most important part anyway.



After 20 minutes, I couldn't take it anymore. She is a tiny little baby and so I decided to bring her into my bed and calm her down, and then put her in her kennel when she fell asleep. Sleeping in my bed isn't a good option because I was afraid she would pee, or fall off the bed or that I would squish her in the middle of the night. But as soon as I laid down with her, she lunged at my neck, wrapping all 8 pounds of her around me, sighing deeply and then immediately passing out.

And so that's how we slept. Her little head next to my ear, snoring loudly for such a little creature, and me doing my best to sleep with my new neck warmer. But she didn't pee, fall out of bed, I didn't squish her and she didn't cry. We'll see how tomorrow goes.