Enzo the wimpering champion

As expected, Enzo's first night was nothing short of a nightmare. His persistant wimpering leading to loud cries meant that we had no sleep the entire night. 

Our original plan was the perfect Internet Derived plan , coupled with advise from people with countless years of experience. However, all these meant Sqquat when Enzo came along. 

Just for the record, our original foolproof painfree plan was to bring Enzo home after a long day of play outside, Feed him at his new home and let him go about with his business before lights out timing at around midnight.

Well, anyway, that was the plan.

What eventually happen was, after laying by him and getting him to sleep at around 12am, I got punctured and thought that it was safe to sleep. 

I did get to sleep. 15 whole mins. Before he start his wimpering and howling act. As per the wisdom of everybody else, we ignored his cries and wimpers. But got so loud that the entire estate would have gathered in arms and broke down my door if i hadnt done something about it. These are the pitfalls of living in HDB and owning (trying to own) a pet puppy. 

- So, no choice, i knew that Enzo can only sleep if he sees us. Compromises had to be made.We  Play Pen'd him outside of our bedroom so that he can see us. And finally at ard 3~4am, he finally surrendered and let us off.... until 630am that is, when he started wimpering again.  However, this time, it's because he defacated in his area and thats no problem, so we cleaned it up and by that time that was done, he became so hyper that we had to entertain our lil' Enzo. 

630am in the morning, while half the world's asleep (myslef included) , we Let him out his playpen to explore the house. 

All humans need to sleep, and we're of no exception. Hence,  we tried to put him back to his playpen at ard 7am but he'll have none of that. Enzo basically did his wimpering Routine and Clare had to watch him whilst i slept - till 9am (an hr ago). Now's Claire turn to sleep hah.

i'm on leave today to take care of Enzo and as I speak (type), Enzo is still persistantly howling at 30 seconds interval. I can understand where he's coming from. He just got seperated from a loving family and littermates. As much as i would like to assure him that everything is going to be fine and that we'll be nothing  lesser then his former family, we need to let him know that howling, moaning, wimpering will not get him anywhere. 

Anyway, that's the first night and i hope and pray that its not the first of too many more sleepless nights...