Your Pomeranian Puppy's First Night Home

Do the work before your Pom walks through the door. Our puppies go home at around nine weeks, after their second vaccination, and they arrive with a starter kit to get you going. Set up a safe base in a quiet corner: a crate or a playpen with a warm, soft bed, water, a toilet spot with pads, and a couple of toys. Puppy-proof the area by clearing cables, small objects and anything chewable, and decide where the puppy will sleep before nightfall rather than in the middle of the first cry.

Place the sleeping crate or pen near your bed for the first nights. A nine-week-old Pom left alone in a far room will cry from loneliness, and keeping it close cuts that dramatically while you both get some sleep. You can move it gradually to its permanent spot once the puppy is settled. The crate training guide covers making that space a place your Pom genuinely likes.

Feeding matters more than usual in the first days, and not only for comfort. Very small, young toy-breed puppies, Pomeranians included, are prone to juvenile hypoglycaemia, a drop in blood sugar that can happen when a tiny pup gets stressed, cold, over-tired or skips meals. The move to a new home ticks several of those boxes at once, which is exactly why the first night deserves attention.

Prevent it with small, frequent meals of the food your puppy is already used to, rather than large gaps between feeds, and keep the puppy warm and rested rather than over-handled and over-tired. Learn the warning signs: wobbliness, weakness, lethargy, and pale gums. If you see them, offer food at once and contact your vet promptly, and if the puppy is very dull or unresponsive treat it as urgent. This is general guidance, not a substitute for your vet, and you can always message us if something does not look right.

Have the crate made up before the puppy arrives, not after. Soft bedding it cannot swallow, a pee pad in a fixed corner of the pen, a water bowl it cannot tip, and something carrying a familiar scent from the shop, which is the single cheapest settling aid there is. A radio or fan providing white noise masks corridor footsteps and lift doors, both of which cause more night waking than the strangeness of the room does.

Keep the feeding schedule you were given rather than switching food or timing on night one. Very small Pomeranian puppies run low on glucose faster than bigger breeds, so small meals at regular intervals are a safety measure and not fussiness. Missing a meal because a puppy is unsettled is the most common way this goes wrong.

Learn the signs before you need them. A hypoglycaemic puppy goes quiet and wobbly, then weak, and its gum colour pales from healthy pink towards white or grey. Lift the lip and look, because that check takes two seconds and tells you more than any amount of watching from across the room. If you see it, that is a vet call rather than a wait-and-see. Save your vet contact and an after-hours number in your phone before the first night, not during it. For everything else, use a quiet settling cue, the same two words every time, so the puppy learns the sound that means sleep.