Looking for advice on how to acclimate our 9 week old chihuahua to a crate. I own my own spa and plan on taking him into my office every day but there will be times when, for his own safety, I'll need to crate him (like this Christmas when we'll be visiting my in-laws who have 6 children under the age of 11).
I don't think this little fella's feet hit the ground until we brought him home. Even for a 9 week old, he's very uncoordinated so we've been treating him like a 'big dog'. (You know...run with the big dogs ). Unfortunately, whenever he's separated from us by more than 2 feet, he starts whining.
How do I get rid of this separation anxiety without causing trauma? Earlier, I put him in his crate across the room where he could still see me and he barked and whined for an hour. So I went to another room and it continued for another hour until he was hoarse. Then he just whined. He never did stop!
I'll take any suggestions!
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