Idk @Ravenbird…if you were able to use “quiet” to stop barking and she understands this, then I think you have a good shot at using “quiet” for whining. Especially since you are so diligent with your training. Then if she stops whining after the command quiet, then reward the non whining. That’s a pretty good win-win right there.
If their needs are truly all met, and the whining doesn't stop with a quiet or "go lay down" to settle which usually this does the trick, then they get put in their kennel to settle for a nap. Sometimes toddlers need to be put to bed for a nap and our dogs are forever toddlers! The older ones figure it out quickly enough but every now and then need a reminder.Is Asha ever crated at home? See, Ripley was crate trained as a puppy at home but never got to experience crating at show environments for like the first two years of her life. For a while when things opened back up, she was awful for crating indoors at class or trials because she was so used to the show and go style, crating out of the car (which she was perfect for and quiet!) She is much better now that she has more experience but always vocal the first 10 minutes or so. You could nail her with the ecollar, wouldn't matter, she'd whine even louder! Can't have ecollars at events anyways so that wasn't going to work as a solution for us. Walking away and leaving her alone with strangers fixes it for her. She whines because she knows it gets on MY nerves. She settles in and is fine the rest of the day and the more trials she does, the less time it takes for her to settle. But its just interesting to me. All of my other dogs? Perfect. Not a peep. They've been crated at shows since they were itty bitty. At home, they are crated randomly throughout the day now with 4 dogs in the house as we rotate them to keep things fair and sane. Ripley even gets crated now from time to time as she got a little too used to all of her freedom in the house
She's been crate free in the house for about 2 years now so she was pretty vocal the first couple of times she was put back in one! 
I swear though, they almost breathe a sigh of relief when they go in. Like they have permission to take a nap. 
9/10 if Remy is whining that’s the reason. On days that we do a lot I don’t hear a peep from him. Occasionally he’ll “nuisance” whine then eventually gives up with a huff and plops down lol. If he doesn’t do that and I know he’s been out to potty, he goes in the crate and quiets immediately.
I had this problem with Remy and didn’t expect to, although I guess it’s my fault for not crating him in different environments. He loves his crate at home and I often find he puts himself in there for a nap. He’s also done great in the new car crate.
I’m not really sure how to train for that at a show without being a major annoyance to everyone. I think the training place by me is doing “rent a ring” now, so maybe I can do that and just use some of the time crating him. Luckily he does very well ringside and we’ve only been doing one show a day, so the crate isn’t a necessity.
Truthfully, I've let it go for so long now, I rarely even scold her for it anymore. I really wanted to fix the long down whining in IGP, because even tho we passed our BH, all the other levels had the long down also, so I was thinking of our future trials. Now that I'm not doing IGP, there is nothing comparable for trial reasons. It's one of those things I pretty much gave up on...
Asha whines because it's close to feeding time or she has been left alone, or as you mentioned crating at shows. Like yesterday (TMI maybe) we got a rat in a live trap, then I dispatch it by putting the cage under water. Gross, I know, but poison is not an option. Asha gets totally wild when she realizes one is in the trap and alerts me to it by barking and carrying on. To make things easier, I took her inside and closed her in my bedroom, then went outside to take care of the rat. LOL you could hear her 100 yards away and all the windows were closed. FOMO (fear of missing out) rears its ugly head. It starts as whining then escalates to high pitch yipping and protest barking. Stopped when I got back to the house. She only did this because she knew I was dealing with the rat without her. If I go to work at my neighbors she doesn't do this, but after an hour or two will start a moanful howling. With the long down whine it was a pity party whine, loud enough for everyone to hear, but not howling. So yeah, with her it's simply a protest thing. I don't mind the vocal stuff for the list above at all.
I think this is key: Anything they learn as a puppy sticks better than what you start teaching at a year plus!
Yeah, it can be a problem, especially when, as I just said, they don't grow up doing it. Here we are at the last trial, over 100 dogs in a small room. Asha was not a happy camper. Again, I'm blessed that she just vocalizes and doesn't tear anything up. I can zip her up in the soft side crate and leave to go watch a run, she may whine but so far no barking or howling at a show.
That’s what I think happened with Kaiser. He eventually clued in that the whine wasn’t getting him the results he wanted.
Reading our minds for better or for worse! If Rip is the only one who does it from your pack, and Ragnar was a lone dog initially too, do you think it’s a first dog/lone dog developmental behaviour to whine? She was a lone dog before the others came along. I agree the breed is vocal anyway but it seems like everyone with a whiner has just one dog…I agree the crate is a life saver in that regard. If they want to go go go all day, they need a physical barrier to force them to rest. Thank god we are not in that phase anymore LOL.Like they have permission to take a nap.
No hers was the COVID thing. She never got to practice kenneling indoors at events and classes with other things going on. FOMO like Asha. As things opened up and we have practiced it more by going to more trials, she got better.
To this day I feel like Phoebe was cheated in her puppyhood since this whole state was closed, including dog shows and training. I couldn't even bring her into the vets office since it was a state law that clients couldn't be in any animal hospital.
. I'm not sure I've ever heard Olive whine, but she will bark if something alarms her.
Yes, those are the physical signs, going through the motions of carrying pups.
Gestation for a dog from time of ovulation is 63 days average. They then start developing milk a few days before whelp and don't wean until 3-4 weeks. Don't touch her nipples and cut back on her food to lessen milk production. You could even fast her for a day to help as this is how I start the weaning process to tell her body to stop producing milk. But food and stimulation (+hormones) = milk
Thank you @Rits and @Ravenbird. I’ll purchase the raspberry leaf extract as well, appreciate the link too!
And it's not excessive. Thank God. But it's noticeable since she hardly did it before. A simple, 'quiet' will usually suffice. I always make sure that it's not for a good reason. Because a lot of times it is.
If she was available in the throes of our winter, I may have thought more than twice! It was great having nice weather with a small puppy. 
Months?? Geez, these girls!
it's bad enough it's almost a month they're in heat and probably whiny. But then it's months afterwards too? That'll take it right into the next Heat! 
LOL
During a false pregnancy especially yes. Their hormones are still working and going through the motions of getting ready for a litter. Just like with women, we are hormonal with lots of "symptoms" depending on where we are in our cycle, so are they!
Asha does this. She barks wildly sometimes if she's extra hungry. Morning she flys down the hall then to the kitchen spinning and bounding around almost always 3 or 4 barks. She gets a can of sardines once or twice a week and she's standing at my side while I'm fixing her bowl of food - when she hears the pop top of the sardine can she squeals/shrieks LOUDLY, that ears piercing sound ending with 3 or 4 extra loud barks. I tried to tamp it down when she was a puppy, but finally gave it up. I do "shush" at her and at the same time stand still when she's over the top sometimes and that helps. But in general I'm just glad she loves life and is a good eater.
