I just got a lab this week. She is 8 weeks and a great puppy. But, I get up 3 times a night to take it out. When can I expect the puppy to sleep all night?
We've had Loki 2 weeks and got him at 8 weeks too. The only thing I feel I can offer in terms of advice right now, is with regards to sleeping, as Loki slept through from day 3. Obviously each pup is different but I, like you, was setting an alarm to get up every 2-3 hours to take him out, only he would just sit on my feet and not produce. The third night I just let him wake me if he needed to go and the next thing I knew, it was 7am and he went to bed at 10:30pm. If you try that for a night and don't come down to any accidents, he may well just be able to hold it and sleep through x
As @Lex says, each pup is different. It might take a bit longer with some pups. Do you set an alarm to take her out or does she wake you?
Letting pup wake you if they need to go will only work if you are crate training her, by which I mean closing her in at night. Otherwise she will just "go" when she needs to, in a place that is not her bed. I have tried both ways, and though it is a nuisance to have to take them out at night they are house trained much more quickly.
Sorry @KirbyHawk75 yes, I assumed your pup was crate trained. Pups don't normally soil where they sleep when in a crate so should alert you if they need to toilet, if they're able x
Jet slept through at 7 weeks when we first got her. Oban needed out twice a night, really needed to pee and poop. Then down to once a night. He slept through at about 4.5 months.
Not necessarily and certainly not for us with Oban. WE did not enclose him in the crate, the door was open but the kitchen was gated. He was downstairs too, but we could hear him begin to rustle around. So it may depend on the owner's hearing acuity. My Vet believes crate training, if it functions as you describe, may be detrimental down the road if it forces puppy to hold on longer than he should. Just as I doubt there is a woman among us who has not been told by her Doctor, "When you gotta go, GO" as older age problems from straining to hold may develop. Plus, when puppies are very young they Can't hold on. And if I can't hear I'd rather he make a little deposit on my floor than lie in pee or poop. Actually, we did miss a few cues and he did pick a place on the floor away from his bed, as you say. So the intent is there very young, just not the ability to control.
@Snowshoe We have a video monitor, with sound, right next to our heads, so hear when he stirs. He doesn't do that until morning. Wouldn't it be the case that some pups can and some pups can't? I felt if he needed to go and couldn't hold it, he would wake right?
That’s a good idea. Getting to the pup when they start to stir, before they whine or bark, is useful because then they don’t learn to shout for attention. To answer your question @KirbyHawk75 - they really are all different. I have had seven pups now in the last five years. Every one has been different as to when they slept through. When they are tiny I try to go to bed as late as I can and get up as early as I can. I never give breakfast until ‘proper’ breakfast time, whatever time they wake up, so that they don’t start to wake for food. Keir slept through from day 1, Mollie took ages. By the time they were five months old all were sleeping through nicely. One thing is for sure - you soon forget all about the broken nights!
Whilst it might make sense that pups become housetrained more quickly if you take them out at night, this wasn't the case with my pup. She slept in a crate, with the door left open, and left it when she needed a wee/poo which she did on paper I left on the kitchen floor (there was a baby gate to stop her leaving the kitchen). She stopped weeing/pooing overnight by 12 weeks.
Our 13 week old pup makes it fine all night in his kennel but pees the MINUTE me steps out of the kennel when he wakes up. We have a ways to go to get downstairs to the door and when we carry him, he pees all over US! So we get up once around 3 or 4am and will keep doing that for a little while I guess.
My puppy, who is currently 6 months old, slept through the night at around 10 weeks. We crate-trained him.
Well that was our experience, yes. Our little Jet slept through the night with nary a rustle. Oban whimpered a bit and we could hear as he left his crate and moved out to the floor. Even when he slept out on the floor (another reason I am not keen on all night confinement in a crate, our little boy got hot in there, even with no bedding and in winter) and even then we could hear him. Do puppies pee in their sleep? Or poop in their sleep? I don't know. Mine have only done so when experiencing incontinence due to old age or infection, so they wern't puppies.
I have zero clue either! I'm 3 weeks into this game from brand new so learning as I go along. So far, no pee or poop in sleep or just overnight so long may it continue! X
Mila didn't sleep through the night until she was about 4 months old. In the first month that we had her, she woke us up every two hours. It was honestly a nightmare. After several weeks, it went down to about once or twice a night until she finally started sleeping for 8 hours straight.
I've had my pup for just about a week now and reading a lot of the posts on here, I think I got very lucky as Morty took to his crate instantly and has slept through the night, every night without a single accident. Admittedly, I'm not a good sleeper myself and tend to wake through the night so tend to take him out for a quick pee then straight back to bed, however I've been pushing the boundaries with this and doing it later and later until hopefully we get from 10pm to 6am without interruption. Currently at 4am so the finish line is in sight!
