We have got an 11 week old border collie puppy and have had her for just over 3 weeks. Originally we were living with my partners parents for the first coupld of weeks we had her and she slept inside her crate with another much older dog in the room. She used to cry when she was first put to bed and when she could hear people around but would then stop until one of us got up in the morning to see her at around 7.

Last week we moved into a new house which is an end terrace, every night now when we put her to bed she goes to sleep very quickly and only barks for a few seconds. However for the last 3 mornings she has started barking and squeaking normally from 6.15am but Sunday morning is was 5.40 and will not stop unless we go downstairs to see her. We have tried telling her to be quiet, we have squirted her with a bit of water (which used to work at the old house) we have also got up at these times and fed her and put her outside but she continues to bark as soon as she's back in the crate.

We don't want to have her in the bedroom with us as we feel this is setting a bad precendent however it is causing us so many problems especially being new to the street and the noise is so loud I am sure that it disturbs the neighbours.

Can anyone please help us with something we can do, it is not as if the dog is neglected we both get up at around 7am anyway and from next week I'll be walking her at this time, however we cannot have her constantly barking for 30-60 minutes every morning.

thanks for your help