I have a couple suggestions that seemed to help with my dog when I first got her.
1) As already mentioned, keep the kennel in your room (at least for a week or two). When your pup whines do not take them out of the kennel, only stick a finger or two inside and see point 2).
2) When it's time for bed cover up the kennel with blankets to keep it nice and dark inside. That way the pup will learn when it's time to sleep and when it's time to play.
3) Put an old t-shirt or towel or something in there that smells like you. Better yet is if you could find some old towel that her littermates/mother played with.
4) Get one of those microwave heating pads and put it in the kennel at night. It will give the pup some simulated warmth.
5) Assuming the kennel is completely covered and your pup can't see outside, give the kennel a little shake or make some noise whenever they whine/howl. Make sure that they don't know it was you doing it though. I wouldn't try this one though unless the situation doesn't improve in three weeks or so.
Just remember that the howling won't go away until the pup is relatively settled. I was functioning on four or five hours (in one hour increments) of sleep every night for the first couple of weeks and it was brutal. It took Abbey about four months before she would sleep through the night (read six or seven hours). Now she is up to eight to ten hours depending on how tired she is.
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