i just acquired a 6 week old female husky and at night i put it into its kennel to sleep and it just whines and howls.how can i stop this?

Take a look at the stickies under the training thread, there's a lot of good information to get started. Here's the one on crate training.
https://www.itsahuskything.com/t918-crate-training
Basically, you need to wait it out. When there's a lull in the barking or crying, then you can let them out.

I personally wouldn't have any dog out in a kennel at that age.

But I realise that I am just one person.

So how I would teach them the kennel is a good place, a nice place:

Start by feeding her in the kennel every meal time. Do this for a while. Then start leaving her in there for short periods of time with a Kong or a foody treat. Gradually increase the time she is in the kennel, if you leave her with a foody item then she will learn that when she goes in the kennel good things happen. And eventually she will learn that at bedtime she gets a food treat and is left.

I have a dog with separation anxiety and whenever I have to go out, I lock him in a crate (he's destructive) with a kong - that way he learns that his crate = food and then he doesn't notice that I am leaving because he has food. Once he has finished with the Kong he sleeps - it's hard work getting into one of those.

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I personally wouldn't have any dog out in a kennel at that age.

Often times people mistake Kennels and Crates as meaning the same thing when on the forum. I would assume this is one such case as I too wouldn't have a 6 week old out in a Kennel.

To each their own though.

To the OP - Either way the link and the info is spot on. Take a look around our training section or the link provided by Rhia for more info

~Chris~

Tika wrote:

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I personally wouldn't have any dog out in a kennel at that age.

Often times people mistake Kennels and Crates as meaning the same thing when on the forum. I would assume this is one such case as I too wouldn't have a 6 week old out in a Kennel.

To each their own though.

To the OP - Either way the link and the info is spot on. Take a look around our training section or the link provided by Rhia for more info

~Chris~

Ooh I forgot the difference Apologies if this is the case.

SLB wrote:

Tika wrote:

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I personally wouldn't have any dog out in a kennel at that age.

Often times people mistake Kennels and Crates as meaning the same thing when on the forum. I would assume this is one such case as I too wouldn't have a 6 week old out in a Kennel.

To each their own though.

To the OP - Either way the link and the info is spot on. Take a look around our training section or the link provided by Rhia for more info

~Chris~

Ooh I forgot the difference Apologies if this is the case.

LoL No not at all, what you said was spot on

I assumed the OP did

~Chris~

If we're talking about a crate, try giving the pup a treat as soon as they get in the crate. Do this for a while so they associate the crate with something positive. You want the crate to be a safe spot for the dog. As for the whining and howling, the pup is just scared of being pinned in and such. You just have to wait it out. It will stop, promise.

Oops I did confuse them and now my 3 1/2 year old is sort of imitating my pup 0.o it also whines and howls even though there's nothing wrong is it some sort of phase?

She whines and howls in her crate? Or out of it? Huskies are talkers, some more than others, you may have just gotten one who knows how to use her husky voice.
Little kids do that. My cousin would drink out of my old lab mix's water bowl at that age. Also soil his pull ups over bushes on walks on purpose. Luckily, when he was bugging her, she's come find us and whine once to let us know he was getting into trouble again.