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Anonymous wrote:What kind of dogs do you all have that are unable to last from 9pm to 6am at 5 months oldt? Is this a tiny dog / tiny bladder issue? I've always had sporting dog and herding dog breeds/mixes.

Do you ACTUALLY sleep 9 hours a day? I have never met an adult human being that spent that much time in bed.

DP but I average about 10 hours a night. Runs in the family. My skin looks amazing for my age.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of dogs do you all have that are unable to last from 9pm to 6am at 5 months oldt? Is this a tiny dog / tiny bladder issue? I've always had sporting dog and herding dog breeds/mixes.

Do you ACTUALLY sleep 9 hours a day? I have never met an adult human being that spent that much time in bed.

PP here. Of course not... but the dogs go out around 8:30 or 9pm. And then we wake up around 6am and get ready for work and then let the dogs out around 6:30/7am. Our "puppy" is now 10 months old, but, at 5 months, he was easily following this schedule. So, I ask again, what kind of dog do you have that can't last 9 hours overnight at 5 months? (Perhaps they are not getting enough exercise during the day?)

Anonymous wrote:What kind of dogs do you all have that are unable to last from 9pm to 6am at 5 months oldt? Is this a tiny dog / tiny bladder issue? I've always had sporting dog and herding dog breeds/mixes.

Do you ACTUALLY sleep 9 hours a day? I have never met an adult human being that spent that much time in bed.

What kind of dogs do you all have that are unable to last from 9pm to 6am at 5 months oldt? Is this a tiny dog / tiny bladder issue? I've always had sporting dog and herding dog breeds/mixes.

A few things
1) put him to bed later. I kept my puppy up until midnight. What time do you go to bed?
2) you have to treat it like sleep training and there will be a week where he might wake your kids. Tell him hush when he whines and don’t get him. Get him out at a reasonable hour and only if he’s quiet. You might need to do it gradually though.
3) does he have a good activity in the crate? My puppy will work at this one for a while:
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I think it's ridiculous that your are letting a 5 month old puppy tell you when to get up. You have trained them that whining gets them out of the crate, so it will take a little time to fix the issue, but here is what I recommend...

Have the crate near your bed. When he whines, smack your hand on the top of the crate and say "hush." Repeat as needed for the next 5 minutes. After he has been quiet for a min or two, get up and let him out of the crate. Do this for several mornings. Then start expecting more time. If he whines, smack/hush and expect 5 min of silence before letting him out. Do this for several more mornings. Then push it to 10 min for the next week. See if he will respond to just saying hush instead of smacking the crate. Be prepared to go back a step if he is unsuccessful.

After a couple of weeks, expect that when he whines and you say hush, you can have 15 to 20 more min of silence. You will still be waking up and not getting sleep for a while. But, hopefully, after a month, he will start pateintly waiting for you to choose when to wake up.

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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.

Above was in response to this. And no he’s not crated during the day.

That could be part of your problem. If you are not properly crate training him during the day, you are not teaching him how to be content in his crate.

Regardless, 5:45 is a perfectly acceptable time for a puppy who has been in their crate since 9:30 to wake up. Puppies are like babies and you need to have realistic expectations.

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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.

Above was in response to this. And no he’s not crated during the day.

What are you talking about? He’s literally sleeping the entire time.

What did you think having a puppy would be like?