How to get a puppy to settle down indoors without barking

“Our 12 week-old bichon puppy will only properly settle and sleep when he’s in his crate.”source ↗

“I feel bad that he’s spending so much time in that small space, but he literally won’t settle down if anyone in the household moves so much as a toe.”source ↗

“Just feel like we’re making no other progress with training and we’re all so tired - humans and puppy alike!”source ↗

“First few night were hell, she was inconsolable until I got the idea to put on white noise and boom.”source ↗

“We’ve gone from overtired zoomies and biting our older dogs tail to deep sleep in maybe twenty minutes.”source ↗

“I’m worried though that this will cause crate regression during the week when we leave him to go the gym, the store, etc.”source ↗

“Over the past few days at almost exactly the same time - 4:30ish to 6:30ish our puppy is just unable to settle like at all.”source ↗

“I'm struggling to tell if he's overtired or just going crazy with bordum.”source ↗

“all I really want is for us to be able to chill on the couch together occasionally but she will instantly start chewing on the furniture”source ↗

“I just wish she could also nap on the couch with me”source ↗

“as soon as shes done, if she is in the living room and I’m there she’ll go straigjt for the furniture.”source ↗

“Looking for something to pop on the TV while she sleeps”source ↗

“At that point, she will start scratching/digging at her mat pretty frenetically.”source ↗

“she basically continues until we come back.”source ↗

“the minute we let him up he's biting and sharking at faces.”source ↗

“During the day however, different story. He will happily leap in there for treats and stays calm if we are giving him treats. As soon as we stop with the treats he starts barking pretty non stop.”source ↗

“Now’s the time I start to struggle for some reason.”source ↗

“By 6 pm, he seems so bored out of his mind and can’t decide on what he wants to do. He starts to pant and just stares at me.”source ↗

“I’d like some advice on how to fill his time after that 4:30 pm walk.”source ↗

“During nights when it's time for the long sleep he freaks the f**k out!”source ↗

“He starts biting, hard, and barking and screaming!! *SCREAMING*, like we're hurting him, I've never heard noise like that from a dog before”source ↗

“whenever he’s in his playpen he cries and wails and barks if I’m not in it with him. I can’t even be in the same room.”source ↗

“I feel like I’m going insane.”source ↗

“Lately he wakes up and is immediately stressed and over stimulated, biting, jumping, humping, demand barking.”source ↗

“He’s never been able to properly settle himself which I understand is normal for a puppy of his age but lately he is resisting sleep more and more.”source ↗

“It’s becoming especially hard as he can’t entertain himself and I work from home so he’s constantly barking and crying and clawing at me when I’m trying to work.”source ↗

“She does not stop barking when we try to sit and relax on the couch. We will give her a chew and she will bury it in the couches and then bark in our faces.”source ↗

“My fiance and i both feel like we have absolutely zero time to ourselves. From the moment I get home at 3 to 8:30 when we go to bed the dog is at 100.”source ↗

“We are moving tomorrow from our apartment to a house, and I am honestly panicking. 😭”source ↗

“She kept pacing around, looking at the door and wanting to go out into the garden.”source ↗

“Tomorrow we are actually moving all our things there, and I'm terrified that she is going to spend the entire day pacing, barking, being overstimulated and unable to sleep or settle because everything is unfamiliar.”source ↗

“Whenever she sees anyone just chilling or standing around within her line of sight and she's in the pen, she barks.”source ↗

“Really whenever she's in the x-pen and is just bored she barks.”source ↗

“So when the barking goes on for a long time and we get tired of it, we often end up letting her outside because that's just the easiest way to get her to stop.”source ↗

“She doesn't reliably tell us yet, so we've mostly avoided accidents by keeping her outside for a large portion of the day.”source ↗

“Ruby basically cannot settle when Roxy is around, and Roxy will often come over and engage her in play.”source ↗

“He will go in fine at night but napping him in it in the day he alwayssss makes a fuss first. Some days are worse than other.”source ↗

“I feeel this whole heartedly. I don’t have any tips as I am in the same boat. I’ve tried everything, games, kongs, quick departures (30 seconds), no matter what she freaks out when I leave her”source ↗

“man the day/night difference is so real with these pups. my setter was the same way at that age, perfect angel at night then absolute menace when the sun was up”source ↗

“She sleeps fine at night in her crate, but daytime has been a struggling.”source ↗

“My husband will let her out the second she starts to whine 😵‍💫.”source ↗

“it's so hard and I just wanted to cave and let her sleep on the floor or couch.”source ↗

“She cannot settle in a closed crate or pen and will non-stop cry/whine/scream.”source ↗

“I haven’t been able to crate her at night because it gets to the point she’s biting the bars and peeing.”source ↗

“Same with the pen, she goes ballistic and screeches and I’m sure by then my neighbors might hear her.”source ↗

“he’s just a lot to say the least lol. He can settle in his crate or “his room” (aka the mudroom that he’s taken over right off the kitchen) but the second he’s past that gate into the main area of the house or god forbid outside at all, it’s like he isn’t capable of sitting down for more than like 30 seconds.”source ↗

“Er ist zu Hause auch oft sehr unruhig und legt sich nur hin wenn ich ihm das mehrfach sage und ebenso ruhig bin.”source ↗

“What I am struggling with is during his wake time, after we bring him out to go potty and go for long walks and play with him and Train and do enrichment games, there are times that I need to have him in an enclosed space so I can either answer the door or get a little work done or even just walk to the laundry room.”source ↗

“He follows me everywhere or if I put him in his playpen he cries and whines and tries to climb out the sides.”source ↗

“It’s just not realistic that I can eagle eye watch him every moment that he’s awake.”source ↗

“our beagle mix was exactly like this at that age. it’s like they short circuit when they get on the couch, all that closeness just fires up the bite mode.”source ↗

“I tried putting on movies but he only settled in the crate for Gilmore Girls lol”source ↗

“sometimes brown noise if its loud outside, to block it out.”source ↗

“Radio in the day time. Jazz piano on YT (called nature) in the evening.”source ↗

“Lofi sleep. I have used it since she was 7 weeks old. The second I turn it on now, no matter what she is doing, she immediately settles down and goes to sleep.”source ↗

“Baby lullaby playlist, we started it when we 1st brought him home and still use it when he won’t settle.”source ↗

“My puppy, 6mo large breed mutt with working breeds in him (specifically heeler and distant border collie) does not settle.”source ↗

“For day time naps ive been leaving him in a room i made up for the dogs but i can hear him ripping things up in between barking. His bed. The carpet. The wall.”source ↗

“If i leave, he barks and whines.”source ↗

“My mini Aussie at 17 weeks can hardly keep a nap for 45 minutes and spends up to 30 minutes fighting it before she falls asleep. And leave the room or house? Forget it. It’s like being held prisoner. Losing my mind.”source ↗

“But now omg he is just CONSTANTLY barking at us and whining wanted to get onto our bed.”source ↗

“What can I do about this barking and jumping on the bed??? It's getting really annoying and he's even started doing this at 1am after we take him out to pee.”source ↗

“when we first got him he would bark up a storm all the time”source ↗

“we still have had midnight wake ups from pup waking and deciding it is play time.”source ↗

“Mine turned into a little Demon until I made him sleep more.”source ↗

“My puppy gets like this whenever he gets sleepy.”source ↗

“But yesterday I had a few people over for a game night and I kid you not, this pup was off the walls for the whole 5 hours that guests were over.”source ↗

“Pup did crash the second all the guests left but was completely unable to settle when they were over.”source ↗

“And I have worked with the ‘place’ command. But she just couldn’t hold it with people around.”source ↗

“Our 9 week puppy is generally well behaved but, and sometimes this is due to us working and him prob being bored, he gets overtired, frantic, biting, zoomies etc.”source ↗

“People talk about enforced naps but it’s so hard to get him to sleep he just goes from normal to 100 and even if we tried to get him to nap earlier than his overtired state, he won’t settle.”source ↗

“I snapped at him the other day and I am losing my patience.”source ↗

“she’s been crying every time she’s left in her crate or playpen we’ve tried ignoring her so she can get out of the habit but that only seems to make it worse.”source ↗

“She cries all night long and isn’t sleeping until the day when she’s removed out the crate.”source ↗

“I just can’t get him to settle outside of his crate / sleep for long enough.”source ↗

“He has developed a demand barking problem”source ↗

“As soon as he wakes up he will bark non-stop until I let him out.”source ↗

“He will also never sleep outside of his crate because he will not settle.”source ↗

“having a loud dog is very overwhelming.”source ↗

“whenever I get in the shower, he freaks out.”source ↗

“He cries and freaks out when I get in the shower and turn it on.”source ↗

“none of this has worked, and he's been effectively inconsolable.”source ↗

“Puppy is 11 weeks and I give him plenty of sniff time, mental stimulation, exercise, water and food, but sometimes when I try to force naps he will just fight sleep so hard.”source ↗

“I get mad at him because he will literally demand my attention for hours on end and just sit there wide awake.”source ↗

“it is unbelievable challenging to get him to sleep 18 or more hours a day. He overtired himself daily and it is so tiring.”source ↗