Mia's first night sleeping in her crate in the family room went Ok. We moved her to try and help her separation anxiety per the advice of our dog trainer, and really it's better for us as well. She preferred sleeping in our bedroom (also in her crate) but she got over it eventually. I had prepared myself for a night of crying and whining and howling... but it was sort of anticlimactic. The only thing that even happened is that she pawed her attached water bowl so hard that water spilled everywhere but it didn't break. It will be going back on tonight when she likely throws another fit of some sort. I'm pretty sure that I could hear her trying to dig her way out by pawing at the door too, but the crate is stronger than her. Maybe her separation anxiety isn't as bad as we thought it was. Although she knew we were in the house and that's a whole different issue than when we would actually be leaving. I'm pretty sure that if we put a nanny cam on her when we left, we would find her being all kinds of bad and loud - tearing her towels apart, howling, going crazy, etc. and that's sort of like my dream, I just want to know how bad it really is.
Yes, all she has in her crate is a crate mat and 2 towels. She has a bed but when she's distressed, she will literally eat it. She will chew it and chew it and swallow it, and the last thing I want is to find her with some kind of digestive issue... so until she learns to control those reactions, Mia can't have soft things in her crate with her. I am the meanest mom alive. Don't feel too badly for her, she's snuggled up on the couch right now with me. She doesn't chew the couch, so she can have that and she doesn't chew her doggie bed in the family room either so she has nice things - don't worry!
Hopefully tonight goes either the same or better! I'm going to guess that it will probably go much worse though.
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