Dog howling/whining at night

Milk_Tray

Hi guys , strange one puppy is 4 months and up to this good as gold when going to bed goes in and never a peep until tonight , she was a little giddy (was on her own longer than normal today) all night but when we went to bed she started this almighty howl/whining sound when we left her which was quite frightening and sounded sad it lasted only 10 seconds and she was playing a bit on her own and back to bed ... any ideas what's causing that?

AryaStark

Milk_Tray wrote: »

Hi guys , strange one puppy is 4 months and up to this good as gold when going to bed goes in and never a peep until tonight , she was a little giddy (was on her own longer than normal today) all night but when we went to bed she started this almighty howl/whining sound when we left her which was quite frightening and sounded sad it lasted only 10 seconds and she was playing a bit on her own and back to bed ... any ideas what's causing that?

Maybe she is just finding her voice as she is quite young. I would not worry if she was playing and fine when you went into her. She was probably still a bit hyper when you were going to bed after being alone for longer then usual.
My husky has so many different ways of howling and talks all the time. She has one howl/cry that she does and you would think she was being killed. She saves that one for when our older dog goes off on her and won't sit beside her!

TheUnderfaker

Thank heavens Nymeria has turned up and is okay Arya! What a relief!

AryaStark

TheUnderfaker wrote: »

Thank heavens Nymeria has turned up and is okay Arya! What a relief!

Haha for a minute there you made me wonder where she had been!!!

Milk_Tray

Strange but could it be to do with teething? Her teeth are at her bad, she is biting EVERYTHING but not in a playful way its to relieve the pain it seems! (She loves wood and my skirting boards ) After the howling she was back playing we could hear he toys getting thrown around but she was starting to chew her teething toy which why it makes me think teething!

aonb

maybe freeze a kong with peanut butter in, nice and cooling if shes teething?

muddypaws

You can also get a face cloth, or tea towel, wet it, and tie it in a knot, then stick it in the freezer for a while, a good teething toy. You can even soak it in something like chicken stock to make it more enticing for the pup, just obviously make sure they only chew and don't eat it.

Hooked

Milk_Tray wrote: »

After the howling she was back playing we could hear he toys getting thrown around but she was starting to chew her teething toy which why it makes me think teething!

Please don't leave soft/potentially dangerous toys with a pup, alone, at night.

I found out the hard way... After a rope-toy (think tennis ball sized rope wrapped around a large rope 'X') was completely dismantled - and then ingested.

Luckily it was vomited up before making its way to the intestines. There was a LOT of rope. He also ate a zip from a cushion. That was the end of leaving items in his crate at night. Apart from Kong toys, as mentioned above.

Saoirse1981

Hooked wrote: »

Please don't leave soft/potentially dangerous toys with a pup, alone, at night.

I found out the hard way... After a rope-toy (think tennis ball sized rope wrapped around a large rope 'X') was completely dismantled - and then ingested.

Luckily it was vomited up before making its way to the intestines. There was a LOT of rope. He also ate a zip from a cushion. That was the end of leaving items in his crate at night. Apart from Kong toys, as mentioned above.

I second this! I mind other peoples dogs. I am afraid of my life if anything should happen to them in my care. I watch them like hawks and never leave any soft toy near them if I am not there and not even just as pups! My big dogs like to demolish their beds if let them....stuffing everywhere...I'd be afraid of them choking on it. I let any dog I mind sleep on my bed if they like and so far they all have, but if they did not, I would never leave any soft thing near them.

Dogs of any age can do all kinds of stupid stuff. I am minding two dogs right now.....one little, one not so little....I cooked them some sausages earlier *just because they love them)...I chopped them up in a bowl then left them on a low table to cool down. I saw my little one looking at the bowl...'Ah' says I to my other half 'how good is he, just looking at the bowl waiting for me to feed him, rather than just take them'.......

Until I looked in the bowl that is...

Whole lot gone! My other guest never even got so much as a sniff! I had to cook him a few more while Mr Shoesize sat looking at me all guilty.

You need eyes in the back of your head:-)

Milk_Tray

We figuered out it was teething that was causing this, she was doing it yesterday with us there, howling while heavily biting her toys and we seen some teeth left behind. poor this must be in pain! She likes my skin a bit too much though ha