Hiya Hugo is 17 weeks today and is a lovely dog and getting on well with training and dare I say the biting is reducing ... My question is about sleep Hugo goes out for his last toilet around 11pm but starts wimpering at around 5am to go out (crate dry). Will this improve?! Food wise I fed 6 12 6 x
Yes, take him out at 5 am he must need it. He is still a baby. It will get better, the older he gets. I don't understand the 6 126 x food? How much food do you give him ...gms and how many meals a day. What does it say on the box/packet of food?
Hi there .... Does he need the toilet when he's whimpering or is it him deciding it's time to wake up? X
He'll start to sleep longer in the mornings as he grows up. It's a bit like having a baby - you can't ever imagine having a lie-on again and then suddenly they're teenagers and won't get up! In the meantime could you get someone else to let him out at 11pm so that you can go to bed a bit earlier to give you a chance to catch up on sleep?
Yes, I did what Joy said, my OH use to let the puppy out around 11pm and I would do the early shift. Before you know it you will wake up one morning and find out Hugo has slept thought Heaven......
415am barking this morning! Took him out but he doesn't settle back in crate after - once he's up he's up!
We went through this with ours (Huxley, now 22 weeks) for a week, and I cant recommend enough that you ignore the barking and whimpering AFTER you have taken him out to the toilet. So get up, take him out, but dont play or interact just allow him to do his business then pop him back in his crate. Perhaps you could have a favourite toy that only goes back in at that time, or a kong with something nice to chew on? but either way pop him back in and do not let him out until he is relaxed and quiet. It only took us three mornings to crack it after we made the decisions, and since then we have had the most brilliant crate trained puppy in the world. He lets us know when he needs the toilet, and other than that he is totally at peace in his crate. We can put him in there any time of night or day and he doesnt make a peep, he knows that it will garner no results, and he feels safe and happy in there. Also, at 22 weeks he can now somehow (god knows how?) sleep ten hours without needing the toilet, at which point he still has not cried we just get him out of bed as we decide he has snoozed long enough. On the weekend when we arent up at 6 a.m we routinely find him happily slumbering at 8 a.m having put himself to bed at 10. We feel very lucky. haha. But i do attribute some of it to our consistency in the beginning, and the fact we put a lot of effort into making sure was cosy, happy, and peaceful in his crate. Thats my advice anyway
I second green lady's suggestion of ignoring any moaning when back in crate. Jessie was getting up at 5 for a while and genuinely needing a poo, but wouldn't settle back afterwards. I eventually started ignoring her and she started settling fine. I also stopped feeding her breakfast straight away after getting up. I make her wait so there is no association between being let out of the crate and being fed. We are thankfully now back to a respectable 7am wake up! Good luck!
