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Awww! He is so cute! Love the puppy paws!
What a big cutie!! He looks like my youngest puppy. :p
I'll be the first to admit, we didn't crate train at night, but sorry about his crying! I'm sure it's heartbreaking. Ours are crate trained for when we leave, but they sleep in their beds in the corner of our bedroom. Teaching "off" and "bedtime" was a lot easier than keeping them in a crate.
Love him. I'm so jealous!!! We want a lab too, one day my dreams will come true!! haha, enjoy him!
He's absolutely adorable!!! Love his name, too. I have a black lab as well!
ETA: Try putting an old shirt or something that smells like you in his crate with him. It will probably calm him down. You just say "go in your house" to our lab now and he wanders right in - it becomes their safe place after they get used to it!
What a cutie! Our puppy cried at night for the first couple weeks, but he's gotten to where he'll go in his crate when he's ready to go to bed. It's just an adjustment period for them, I'm sure he'll be fine!
@amelia: We would let him sleep out of his crate, but he wakes in the middle of the night and wants to play. I'm afraid he'd chew stuff up or wander off and potty in our bedroom. It is heartbreaking to hear him cry. Any words of wisdom/suggestions with using a dog bed instead?
@greeneyes_320: If you want him to sleep in his bed, what we did was we set a routine. Now (we've had them for almost 2 years and they were puppies) they know when the lights go off, it's bed time. They go curl up in their beds and they're out till morning. We taught "off" with a hand-motion for when they would want to get up on the bed, and "bedtime" we say as we're turning the lights out. However, this worked best AFTER they did puppy kindergarten and had learned some basic commands. For the first few weeks we were just persistent. We would throw a treat in their bed, we'd sit on the floor next to it, we'd give them lots of praise when they were in their beds.
Crate training can be great, and I know lots of bees do it, but we just use ours when we feel necessary aka when we leave the apartment. They're not responsible enough to roam around the house while we're gone, we're hoping to get there when they are older though. Now when we go to leave they go and sit in their crates until we close the door. Dogs are smarter than we think. :p
Oh! And make sure he is SUPER tired before bedtime. Lots of play, long walk, whatever. We liked to mentally exhaust ours with this laser pointer thing they'd chase. haha.
ARGH!!!!!! HE IS ADORABLE!! sooo cutee! jealous!!
I lovvee dogs. I always go on dailypuppy.com ahah. Luckily FI does too, and we agree on the same breeds. He is hoping for a black lab soon as well.
When my family got our puppy (golden retriever,she is 13 now) she cried at night too. But she stopped after a week or so.
But I think the secret is that when they cry, you ignore it. It is really hard, but if you keep coming in the night and seeing him, he will like that and always do that even as an adult.
We also never did anything crate. Didn't ever own one. She slept in a doggy bed in the corner in the laundry/mud room and never had any problems.
Anyways, such a cute dog!!
Too adorable! And look at those big paws! So much love, enjoy your new family member!
Super cute!
I have a 4 month old lab mix puppy right now too!
We have a crate in the bedroom as well as his main crate downstairs! He LOVES his bedroom crate and goes in there when he's ready for bed (he likes the downstairs crate but knows he gets left alone in it). The bedroom crate eliminated night crying immediately!
Wow. Look at those paws. They're huge. He's gonna be a big boy. 
So adorable.
Aw! Soo cute!! Went through the crying at night too, but it stopped after about a week or two. The pup will eventually get used to it and adjust! I stopped coming to comfort our dog when he was a puppy after a few nights (although it was SOOO hard) so that he finally would fall asleep. I agree with the previous poster that if you keep coming to comfort him, he'll learn that crying will attract your attention and he'll keep doing it so you'll come see him more. It is super hard, though! He is such a cutie! :)
Cute.
We put our pup's crate in our bedroom and we never heard a peep from him.
Gah! So CUTE!!!
If you can, have him spend time in the crate during the day so that he gets used to it (and knows he's going to be let out again). We attempted not to crate train at first and it lead to one of us sleeping on the couch with the dog every night for two weeks. Now she sleeps on our bed and is great but then of course, she takes over the bed. Good luck!
So cute! I second the thoughts of others to keep the crate in the bedroom. When we got our puppy, we had the crate in the kitchen at first and the crying was horrible. We moved it into the bedroom and suddenly he stopped crying. We also fed him in his crate during the day (with the crate door open) so that he learned to associate the crate with good things. When we left for the day we put him in his crate with a kong full of peanut butter and kibble. He loved it. The crate was wonderful for potty training and to ensure that he was safe when we were at work. We used it until he was about 8 months. Now he sleeps on a bed by our side.
aww hes a cutie!! when we first got our shih tzu he cried at night in the crate but what we did was since he was so small we were able to put the crate on a tv tray next to the bed and whenever he cried and would stick his little cold nose through the door... i would rub his nose and say shhh its ok... and believe it or not that usually helped him settle back down
@sacbride10: I agree... we use to feed our shih tzu in the crate... just throw the loose kibble in there in the mornings while we were dressing for work. Our dog trainer told us that was a great way to enforce positive feelings about the crate while simulating his brain and by 1 year old he was sleeping with us
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Mulligan!!!! He is a lab/retrieve mix that we got from a family who's dog had a litter of pups at the end of December. He has only been with us since Wednesday, but he's doing well. Our only problems are with crate training and crying at night when he's in his crate. I'm hoping that stops soon because no one is getting sleep at our house.
He's so funny and quirky, and we love him (of course)