That's Tori on the right, and a much younger and pudgier Ruby on the left. Tori has been having some soundness problems lately, but it seems like she's pretty well recovered now. Still, she's 6 years old and has her HRCH already, I think they feel like it's time to start another dog along . . . . < g >
I had really good luck with a whiney Ruby by playing a radio for her. She still got us up at 5:30 a.m. for a long while, but that was because she didn't want to wet her crate. Now she can hold it all night long. She has turned out to be a ferocious chewer . . . we put her to bed with two Nylabones and an elk antler, but still had to get her the Orvis 'chew proof' bed, then she managed to unzip the zipper. So I sewed the zipper flap down, and that seemed to stop her, at least temporarily.