sophie sings
Loudly and all night.Sophie is crate trained but she's decided that she feels like training us to ignore that part. The first night home she started howling at 4 am. This was not fun, but we chalked it up to the fact that she slept on a 12 hour car ride during the day. Yesterday morning it started at 3:45 and went on until we got up at 7:30.Tonight it started at 1:30 when Shawn came to bed. She's been going at it every 10-15 minutes for about 2-5 minutes at a time. We are ignoring her because that's what we're supposed to do. It is very, VERY hard.Luckily for me I seem to still be sick from the weekend and have been up all night with nausea and vomiting. I have already spoken (emailed) my boss and said I wouldn't be in today.Sophie has been silent for an hour now and even though I really have to pee, I'm terrified that if I get up and walk to the bathroom she'll hear me and start yowling again.Ugh. I wish we could get her to stop! One option would be to move the crate into the bedroom (no space for it though) but don't think that's a smart move because what happens when we go out? She needs to be used to being in the crate without us around. I don't want her howling all day when we are out, too!She has attached to us very well in only 4 days but I'm worried about separation anxiety. We need to be firm with her to avoid that. She's fine in the crate if we are in the room with her.So, here it is 5am and I have not slept a wink yet. Even though my upset stomach has subsided the second she howls I'm awake. I have to pee even more now and I KNOW she'll wake up and start up again if I get out of bed.ARGH!!