How many times a night did you/do you get up with your puppy?

[Anonymous]

We just got a new puppy and found these podcasts fantastic in understanding puppies:

Need for socialization: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-puppy-training-podcast/id1458176724?i=1000441861776

Guide to potty training: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-new-puppy-dog-training-and-dog-behavior-lessons/id1230953658?i=1000390122411

[Anonymous]

Our puppy turns 5 months old this week, and she has been sleeping through the night since we brought her home.

[Anonymous]

4 weeks or so, for us, until she slept 10-7 or so in the crate. Large breed (german shepherd).

[Anonymous]

OP here — she is sleeping through the night now, from about 11pm-6am, which is great! Of course, landshark phase has now been activated, so when she’s up, all she wants to do is bite.

She’s adorable though!

[Anonymous]

Any advice for getting a 5 month old puppy to sleep through the night? He is a small breed, 22 lbs now. He occasionally sleeps through the night but more often wakes up once or twice, and then is up for the day at 5:45. He pees, poops, eats, and then goes back to sleep on the rug for another hour. Clearly he is waking up because he is rewarded for it, though he HATES going out in the cold in the middle of the night. In the morning I think he’d just rather get up and eat and then snooze in a favorite spot.

We have a small house and kids I don’t want to be woken up by puppy crying. And I’m sleep deprived and cranky. If I let the puppy cry I am just up longer and more fully awakened, and then can’t get back to sleep.

Any magical solutions?

[Anonymous]

We got our puppy at around 12-14 weeks old. At that time we would get up maybe one or two times a night, but he stopped waking up.at night somewhere between 5 and 6 months old. He's 7 months and around 40lbs now and hasn't needed to go out between 10pm and 6am for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any advice for getting a 5 month old puppy to sleep through the night? He is a small breed, 22 lbs now. He occasionally sleeps through the night but more often wakes up once or twice, and then is up for the day at 5:45. He pees, poops, eats, and then goes back to sleep on the rug for another hour. Clearly he is waking up because he is rewarded for it, though he HATES going out in the cold in the middle of the night. In the morning I think he’d just rather get up and eat and then snooze in a favorite spot.

We have a small house and kids I don’t want to be woken up by puppy crying. And I’m sleep deprived and cranky. If I let the puppy cry I am just up longer and more fully awakened, and then can’t get back to sleep.

Any magical solutions?

The magical solution is to give in and let him sleep in your bed, but, if you don't want him in your bed forever, you probably just need to wait it out.

[Anonymous]

Our puppies usually sleep in the bed with us. No night disturbances, but they have freedom to roam if they wish and we have a doggie door for easy ingress/egress.

As they age, they like to sleep with each other (we have several dogs). We adopt lab mixes as puppies and they need warmth & comfort of another body as separation from their mother & the litter is somewhat traumatic.

[Anonymous]

We have a 9 week old lab puppy and we take her out around 10 or 11, around 2 and again around 5:30. She needs to go that often.

[Anonymous]

Lab puppy again. We don’t wake her up to do this. She gets up herself. We let her sleep otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any advice for getting a 5 month old puppy to sleep through the night? He is a small breed, 22 lbs now. He occasionally sleeps through the night but more often wakes up once or twice, and then is up for the day at 5:45. He pees, poops, eats, and then goes back to sleep on the rug for another hour. Clearly he is waking up because he is rewarded for it, though he HATES going out in the cold in the middle of the night. In the morning I think he’d just rather get up and eat and then snooze in a favorite spot.

We have a small house and kids I don’t want to be woken up by puppy crying. And I’m sleep deprived and cranky. If I let the puppy cry I am just up longer and more fully awakened, and then can’t get back to sleep.

Any magical solutions?

Crate train and let him sleep in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any advice for getting a 5 month old puppy to sleep through the night? He is a small breed, 22 lbs now. He occasionally sleeps through the night but more often wakes up once or twice, and then is up for the day at 5:45. He pees, poops, eats, and then goes back to sleep on the rug for another hour. Clearly he is waking up because he is rewarded for it, though he HATES going out in the cold in the middle of the night. In the morning I think he’d just rather get up and eat and then snooze in a favorite spot.

We have a small house and kids I don’t want to be woken up by puppy crying. And I’m sleep deprived and cranky. If I let the puppy cry I am just up longer and more fully awakened, and then can’t get back to sleep.

Any magical solutions?

Crate train and let him sleep in there.

He is crate trained, which is why I resist letting him sleep in our bed. We had to emergency board him last week (death in the family) and we sent him to a home-based boarding place. The requirement for those places is that a dog be able to sleep and settle in a crate. He does okay, but he is still waking up (in the crate beside my bed) and asking to go out to pee sometimes multiple times a night.