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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 2+ year old mutt (basset hound/beagle/rhodesian ridgeback? mix). We adopted him when he was 10 months old and he's awesome.  But starting about six months ago, maybe even longer, he's gotten into what I consider a bad habit, which is deciding that he needs to pee in the middle of the night when he wakes up from his deep sleep.   It became clear that he also really likes using that middle-of-the-night pee pee time to run like a maniac around our backyard, chasing bunnies and sniffing every corner.  We wised up a little, and started leaving his leash by the back door and putting that on him to stop him from making it his play time. So now he just goes out, pees, and comes right back (with me standing at the back door holding onto the long leash).  But pretty much all he does is make a little bit of pee, nothing that he couldn't hold til morning, IMO.   We've cut off his water at 7pm, and we stay up pretty late so we let him out for his last pee before bedtime at around 11, 11:30.  He's been checked by the vet and she sees no medical issue for why he's getting up to pee so much. Is there anything else we can do?  We've tried ignoring him, but then he whines and cries incessantly and a) I don't want him waking up my kids, and b) don't want to make it so that he has to have an accident in the house.

Thanks in advance for any advice.[/quote]

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