Puppy Wakes up at 5:45

[Anonymous]

If he’s a puppy, he’s still a baby. Get up and help the baby.

[Anonymous]

For a puppy that young, do a quick bathroom break and re-crate them. They will adjust. Yes, you may experience a few days of whining.

[Anonymous]

Are you going to bed at 9? I would take him out to pee right before you go to bed. Even an hour later would help. Even if you have to take him back out of the crate to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you going to bed at 9? I would take him out to pee right before you go to bed. Even an hour later would help. Even if you have to take him back out of the crate to do it.

9 pm seems super early.

[Anonymous]

What time are you going to bed, OP? If you're going to bed at 9 as well and not getting up until almost 7, that seems like a lot of sleep. If you're not going to bed until 10 or 11, why are you putting your dog in the crate at 9?

[Anonymous]

Say ahhht in increasingly louder tones when he cries at that hour

[Anonymous]

9pm to 5:45am is almost 9 hours. That is a pretty long time. You seem to have unrealistic expectations. Either you go to bed earlier when the puppy does or you keep him out until you go to bed.

[Anonymous]

OP here. To your questions:

He's been waking up at 5:45 regardless of when we put him to sleep. I basically need to be in bed by 9:30 if I'm going to get 8 hours a night because he's not sleeping past then.

It's not due to having to go potty really bad because he literally walks around the house for 10 minutes looking for anything going on before he'll even allow me to take him outside. And then he takes his time to go potty even then.

I might try to make a sound to let him know it's not time to wake up. The issue is at that point it's hard to go back to sleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. To your questions:

He's been waking up at 5:45 regardless of when we put him to sleep. I basically need to be in bed by 9:30 if I'm going to get 8 hours a night because he's not sleeping past then.

It's not due to having to go potty really bad because he literally walks around the house for 10 minutes looking for anything going on before he'll even allow me to take him outside. And then he takes his time to go potty even then.

I might try to make a sound to let him know it's not time to wake up. The issue is at that point it's hard to go back to sleep.

You didn't address the issue that almost 9 hours in a crate for a puppy is a long time and unrealistic that the puppy won't get restless.

Are you wearing the puppy out before one last pee, then crate? My experience with puppies is that they sleep hard in spurts all day long.

[Anonymous]

Open the crate door at night when you go to sleep.

[Anonymous]

5:45? That’s a perfectly reasonable time for a dog or an adult human to wake up. You don’t have kids, do you, OP?

[Anonymous]

You got a baby, what did you think would happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. To your questions:

He's been waking up at 5:45 regardless of when we put him to sleep. I basically need to be in bed by 9:30 if I'm going to get 8 hours a night because he's not sleeping past then.

It's not due to having to go potty really bad because he literally walks around the house for 10 minutes looking for anything going on before he'll even allow me to take him outside. And then he takes his time to go potty even then.

I might try to make a sound to let him know it's not time to wake up. The issue is at that point it's hard to go back to sleep.

You didn't address the issue that almost 9 hours in a crate for a puppy is a long time and unrealistic that the puppy won't get restless.

Are you wearing the puppy out before one last pee, then crate? My experience with puppies is that they sleep hard in spurts all day long.

This, especially if the puppy is crated during the day too.

[Anonymous]

I mean, welcome to puppies.

And PPD is real. Post Puppy-getting Disorder.

[Anonymous]

Op, my 4 year old dogs are waking up at 5:30 instead of thier usual 6:30. I think it has something to do with the early sunrise.