Hi, my boyfriend and I just got our first dog. He is a five or six week old bench leg beagle. He is very well behaved so far and we are trying to crate train him, but every night we put him in the crate he crys and crys all night, it's heart wrenching. We were told that this was normal so we stuck to our guns and set our alarms so we could get up every two hours to take the little guy outside to the bathroom. Its day five now and the crying hasn't stopped. Now his voice is horse and is tired all day because he doesn't sleep at night. We both have full time jobs as well, so we leave him in tehre when we go to work. We have opposite schedules so I come home on my lunch to let him and he does the same and when we have to work late his mom comes by and lets him out for a little while. ANYway, my boyfriend and I were talking about maybe letting him sleep with us at night and still keeping him in the crate during the day he said that maybe he'll still get trained that way and eventually want to sleep in his crate at night. I just don't know what to do because I don't want him to be in a crate all the time, and I hate to hear the little guy cry, any suggestions?

I found a solution to that common problem 10-15 puppies ago. I have been sharing it ever since I stared answer question on the net 7 years ago. It and many other things that may help are in my sticky at https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/dogs/information-articles-our-dogs-expert-labman-53153.html#post251802

You may have a little more trouble with your puppy for removing it from its mother and litter too soon. 7-8 weeks usually works well. Try to find well cared for puppies and dogs for it to play with to make up its mother and litter. Your puppy may or may not be safe if exposed to parvo. If the mother passed immunity on, the shots will not take until it wears off. After that, one shot, 2 weeks before being exposed to parvo, is all that is needed. The usual practice is to give a series of shots hoping to hit the window between the mother's immunity wearing off and being exposed to parvo. See Canine Parvovirus, What you should know about (http://www.avma.org/communications/brochures/canine_parvo/parvo_brochure.asp)

Letting him sleep with you starts down the road of letting him run the household the rest of his life.

I found a solution to that common problem 10-15 puppies ago. I have been sharing it ever since I stared answer question on the net 7 years ago. It and many other things that may help are in my sticky at https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/dogs/information-articles-our-dogs-expert-labman-53153.html#post251802

You may have a little more trouble with your puppy for removing it from its mother and litter too soon. 7-8 weeks usually works well. Try to find well cared for puppies and dogs for it to play with to make up its mother and litter. Your puppy may or may not be safe if exposed to parvo. If the mother passed immunity on, the shots will not take until it wears off. After that, one shot, 2 weeks before being exposed to parvo, is all that is needed. The usual practice is to give a series of shots hoping to hit the window between the mother's immunity wearing off and being exposed to parvo. See Canine Parvovirus, What you should know about (http://www.avma.org/communications/brochures/canine_parvo/parvo_brochure.asp)

Letting him sleep with you starts down the road of letting him run the household the rest of his life.

I never thought of it that way, thank you so much. I also didn't know we had taken him from th elitter too soon. The man we bought him from said it was okay. He also said he had been wormed and had his first set of shots but our vet wormed him again and said to come back in two weeks and they will start the series of shots over again just in case th eguy didn't really do it. Now I am scared, where is a puppy most likely to get parvo??

The worst place to pick up parvo is a public area where there many dogs of doubtful care. One sniff of a place where a sick dog relieved itself in the last 6 months is all it takes.