Advice needed - puppy

[Charlotte1486]

hi. I need some advice, we did the silly thing when we first got our puppy and let him sleep on OUR bedroom floor in his bed at night, we tried leaving him downstairs on the first night but he cried really loudly and because we live in a terraced house we didnt want to upset the neighbours so we had him up with us. Now we have decided that we need to have him sleep down stairs instead, so last night we gave it a try, he fell asleep down stairs in his bed last night and was fine for about 45 minutes but then we heard him walking around and after a couple of minutes the wimpering started, we left him wimpering for a while and then my partner went down and told him to get back in his bed but he kept getting up and sitting at the bottom of the stairs and the wimpering would start again and my partner would go down and keep making him get back in his bed, although the wimpering was not as loud as the first night it was getting louder. After about an hour we had to give in partly for the neighbours and partly because we had to get up for work this morning and we took him up with his and he settled straight away and slept all night, didnt even wake us up this morning like he usually does.

We would really like to get this sorted and are planning on making a start this weekend, when we dont have to worry about getting up for work. What is the best way to tackle this, should we just persevere and let him cry, I'd like to think he would settle eventually, or should we keep going down and making him get in his bed? Someone recommended we buy ear plugs so we cant hear him but I'm not sure about that.

A lot of people recommend putting a t shirt or something in with him which we did and I dont think it had any effect.

Any advice would be much appreciated. THANK YOU.

[woofgang]

which cruel so and so suggested the earplugs?? I hope he or she gets left somewhere strange and cries all nigh and no one comes!!! I have answered you q in your other post