REJOICE. My puppy is SLEEPING. IN HIS CRATE. DURING THE DAY.

My miniature dachshund is 12 weeks old. We got him (unknowingly) at 6 weeks old. Sigh. Since getting him, he has slept in the crate at night perfectly. He wakes up to pee and silently goes back to sleep.

But during the day? Nah. The crate might as well be on FIRE. He screams. We do all his meals in there, gets licky mats, play crate games, and keep the room dim with a fan, but no. Left alone for more than a minute, and he's in hell. I've been trying to build up a tolerance, 30 seconds, one minute, etc etc. but he hates it, and I don't want to regress any night sleeping by torturing him in there!

Today, a switch flipped. I put him in his crate and laid next to it (we did this the first few nights so he didn't feel alone), and HE FELL ASLEEP. I got up and walked out of the room while he watched me, and he's been asleep for over a half hour!