crate training question & am i doing this correctly?

[awoww]

Ok so i got my 8 week female to use her crate as her "safe" sleeping place. She now goes in it to sleep every night or when she is tired! (pretty quick learner i must say! only had her for 4 nights now!)

During the night, I know I need to take her out to go potty, but the thing is, from reading the forums here, they say not to let her out of the crate if she is whining or throwing a tantrum otherwise she will do that all the time for attention.

How can i let her out to pee when she wakes up and she throws a little fit without having her think thats how she can get our attention?

PS.
As a test, we left her in her crate with peanut butter in a KONG toy to train her in case we leave for 20 minutes and there is no supervision. And we latched the crate and after she finished her KONG, she realized we were not there and the door was latched. She threw a tantrum and just hearing her cry and whine really broke my heart but i knew i had to be strong. After 6 minutes she actually calmed down! and i gave her 3 more mins after that (just to be sure) and i went back in there praising like crazy! But she was acting strange? like in shock and frightened? I got really worried she would not look at me. But after a couple minutes she was fine and back to playing. Am i doing this right???

 

[SnowDove]

I let Daisy out if she cried during the night, but not if she was crying at any other time.

 

[elgerdes]

I'm not sure if this is the right way to crate train, or if there even is one right way...

But the way we do it is that we started with crating her during the day. That also is because we have always had dogs in the bed, so having her sleep in bed is no big deal.

I do want to say Kudos to you though for toughing it out. It's hard to hear them cry. Try latching the door right away, because I'm sure that's what you will be doing anyway.

I have seen tons of posts of here about having them eat in their kennel, or reserving special toys JUST for crate time. Or treats. I would also come up with a simple command for her crate so she knows when it's time to crate up. We chose "bed." This works for us because when it's time to sleep, we say "nigh-night."

Good luck