I'm about to put my name on wait list for a pup this spring. We lost our lab back in June and are ready to get another one.
When we got our old lab, we tried putting him in his kennel in our spare bedroom, he spent all night whining and crying and we didn't sleep at all. I finally went in there and laid by him and he fell asleep and I slept on the floor. The next night we moved his kennel into our bedroom and he fell right to sleep. He just wanted to be near us.