KRISTY FROVICH

Thank you for the suggestions!

Ok so last night we made Daisy a make shift exercise pen attaching to her kennel hoping that it would help her not feel so confined. I don’t think it is a confinement issue because she still did the exact same thing that she did in her kennel, the freaking out, from 11 to 6. I am not sure if she stopped at all because I was able to sleep some but she most likely whined the whole time. I really think it is an attention thing because she slept in her kennel completely fine until the incident last week that I told you about. I have been doing my best to ignore her but with it being late at night and I am so tired I slip up and look at her or talk to her sometimes which is probably why she is still whining after a week. I really need to sleep at night and I really don’t know what to do with her anymore.

Where would you be planning to keep her at night? Does she panic if she's in a room away from you? Does she have a history of chewing or eating things in the home? I think this could be an intermediate solution as she learns to be calmer in a crate/exercise pen, but we need to ensure she stays safe and doesn't chew things. Another option may be the use of an exercise pen. My only concern is that I would never be able to get her back in there at night if I need to even after she was better with her kennel, she is very set in her ways so I think that even with better kennel training she might still freak out if I could even get her in her kennel.

Thank you for replying back. She would come in every night during the winter when she was an outside dog . ( so from November to April) She was in her kennel for two winters. In February she had her first freaking out when there a big noise that startled her and that caused her to freak out any time there was any kind of noise. So at the point her kennel was in a spot that it had been since we got her. We moved her to our living room then we realized part of the problem was the cover we had over the kennel so we had no choice but to move her to my room. We had a cover out it because we have cats and they would bug her. She has only had one pee accident and that was months ago. With the Kong after the first few minutes she just doesn’t want to play with it anymore. She loves peanut butter and she spent like 20 minutes this afternoon trying to get the rest of it from last night out. So just to clarify I am a teenage. My mom will be most watching her when I am away. So Daisy will be a home. She will be in my bedroom. If I leave and she is in the kennel she does panic. If I leave when she is in my bed she is fine when I leave the room. The only thing she has chewed since being an inside dog is our chair arm. That has only happened twice, the first time she was still a newly inside door and we weren't paying attention to her.

Hi, i have a 3yr old border collie named Daisy, we have had her since she was a puppy but we had NO idea what we were getting into so she didn’t receive the proper training, attention, or exercise she needed. She quickly became an outside dog, after 2yrs of her being outside(she didn’t like being out there all the time all alone) we re-homed our cat that didn’t get along with her and now she has been an inside dog since November. I had no idea how I was going to fix all her issues then I found this so thanks! I haven’t started the training course yet but have been working on things like whining. The biggest problem I’m having with her is in her kennel, she doesn’t like going in there and she has been whining/freaking out when we put her in there. Couple things to keep in mind: she has to go in there at night and sometimes during the day(never for very long though), she sleeps in my bedroom, her whining has been affecting my sleep and that heavily affects my health. Daisy has never really liked her kennel so we’ve always had to fight to get her in there. We’ve recently established a routine of her coming into my bed for an hour or however long before I go to bed then I put her in her kennel, it still took some convincing(making her really want a treat) and she still whined a bit but we were getting better with the whining part. About a week ago she went in her kennel very well and didn’t whine at all but the next night, it was late, she went in her kennel to get her toy and I locked her in. I very quickly regretted doing that as she freaked out(panicked whine, pants hard, jumps up against the kennel wall, paces as much as she can in her kennel) I ignored her for about an hour, I knew if I let her out she would figure out that she can do this every night to get out of her kennel, the only reason I let her out to basically restart the night(bathroom, my bed, kennel) was because she was jumping up against her kennel so much I was worried she could injure herself. So I let her out and she stayed in my bed from about an hour then I put her back in, she did the same thing. I believe it took me sternly telling her to be quiet for her to stop. Over the week I’ve tried to talk to her softly, sternly, I’ve yelled(I know I know) nothing has worked, I can’t even tell her “good girl” because she starts up again. The past three night I’ve given her a kong with peanut butter but that only lasts her about 2 minutes. After realizing that talking to her does not work I’ve just completely ignored her and sometimes it takes her an hour to calm down sometimes she whines the entire night. I’ve had to switch beds with my mom two night so I can sleep, I didn’t want to cause anymore problems by leaving her alone. She is a people dog and doesn’t like being alone. She is mostly fine when she is put in there during the day. Also I am going to a camp at the end of April for the weekend, last time was gone for the night she whined all night. What could I do for her that weekend? I would like to know how I can fix this kennel problem? Everyone in our house is losing sleep because of her so any suggestions would be very helpful. I could possibly let her stay out but I’m not sure how she would do and if she isn’t good with staying out of her kennel at night I would never be able to get her in there but if she was good I would be able to work with her better.