re: Puppy Keeps Crying at Night

If you have a private yard then there is little to no reason you can't have him potty outside. I cannot even imagine trying to teach a big olf Great Pyrenees pup to shite a paper pad. Like everyone said unless you are playing and paying 100 percent attention...then in the crate he goes. Any time he wakes up, sniffs the ground for more than 2-3 seconds, looks funny, drinks, eats, runs too much he goes out to potty. Basically unless he is dead asleep or just walked in from a big poop and at least 1 pee then he needs to be in the yard being told to potty. The crate and potty rule will stop him from chewing cables too. He shouldn't even have the opportunity. This is not that hard. If I can teach 10 blind labradors to use puppy pads at 10 days old then to run outside to grass when they could see and had long enough legs then you can get 1 big dopey GP to quit peeing and crapping your house. If you crate him and take him out 1-2 times during night and let him howl when recrated he'll figure out night is for sleeping. I would never encourage play in the middle of the night. Good luck.

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i bought my doberman with 8 champions in his line at 8 weeks.

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8 Weeks is considered the low end of "safe" The puppies gain valuable social development etc from remaining with the liter/mom 8+ weeks. Places that let you adopt pre 8 weeks don't know what they are doing/don't care

For chewing, Nylabones. My youngest has been through a few for the last 2 1/2 years and still loving them. Kong toys are good too, some can be filled with a treat and keeps them busy for hours.

I used Zuke's mini treats for potty training and I still give them a treat when they potty outside.

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I may buy a crate to keep him safe at night and to help potty train. He's good about going to the papers by the door when he's out in the open.

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Are you trolling or just stupid? You made a thread about your puppy crying and every reply is telling you to crate the dog. Your response is you "may" go buy one? Good luck bro, you'll need it

Puppies do that sometimes. You just gotta make sure not to react to him when he does it. My dog cried when I left the apartment from 7 weeks to around 15. I literally sat outside my door for 3 hours one time waiting for her to stop.

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false. 7-8 weeks is very common.

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Common doesn't mean right. There are multiple studies that suggest taking a dog from it's mother at that early of an age can have serious negative effects on the dog.

In regards to taking it out every 2-3 hours at night, I agree. I was an idiot when I got my first puppy (8-10 weeks). I never took her out overnight. I took her out about 2-3 times in the 30 minutes before she got crated for the night. Had her crate be about double her body size, pad on one side she slept on the other. It worked I guess. She only peed the crate the first two nights and then never again. But she was probably miserable all those nights she held it. It makes me cringe when I think about some of the dumb decisions I made when I first got her. But now she's almost 5 and the coolest dog ever.
To the OP, take the advice you're getting in this thread. Will save you lots of trouble and everything people are suggesting will help you establish a positive relationship with your dog and he/she will trust/be loyal to you to no end.

Do you have a small radio? Put that in there with him. Don't turn it up all the way, but just enough to relax him.. Also, give him something of yours, like an old shirt, etc. Something that has your smell on it, that is usually comforting to them. But the radio or something that will help drown out the other noises they hear, that you can't, will help.

He is a puppy so he is going to chew. Sort of like human babies when their teeth start coming in, they start to chew on things, this is what puppies do. You got to get him something to chew on, that will take him awhile to finish.. You can find multiple type at walmart, target, etc but PetSmart has some good options. Also get him one of those rope toys.

Try one of these: