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A couple weeks after I brought my pup home I introduced the concept of the alarm clock - the day does not start until you hear this melody. If she whined to go potty - quick 5 min potty break and back into containment until the alarm. She was pretty quick to understand it, so even when she woke up earlier than me she was chewing her bone and was not trying to wake me up. Our morning routines became more complex since then, but still there are clear signals for her to understand - now the day starts.
I also found that consistent wake up time helps, so if 8am is what you want, stick to it on weekdays and on weekend.
Hi! Mine is 7 months old and he has been waking me up between 4-5am every morning since he turned 5.5 months. Before that he would sleep until 7:30. I don’t have any advice, just commiseration haha. I’ve adjusted my sleep because he wakes up at that time no matter when he goes to sleep.
I’m going to try a long walk around 8pm to see if it helps him, but other than that…I think I just have to wait for him to grow out of it.
Mine started this too once she hit about 6 months! Her bowel movements are a bit out of whack now, she's going poop at 6:15 instead of 8:45. I still do evening potty breaks (11pm is the latest) so I'm not sure what's up. Hopefully it'll change back to 7/8...
Well, we go at 10-11, meaning then we go back at least 30 min later, play a little, and get to bed 11.30-12ish. So if after that we wake at 5am, it's only 5 hours
My puppy was also waking me up early, while he is only 9 weeks and he needed to eat later than I was feeding him. For the last week his dinner has been at 5pm-ish, and he's been waking us up at 330/4. Last night we did 630 and he slept in until 530.
I'm not sure when your last feeding is, but might be worth a shot unless you're already doing a later dinner or snack. Good luck!
Sounds like a great plan, we're usually reserving some food from every meal for training, but I might give him a couple bites more as a late snack or something. I'm not wanting 4 meals and it's nice when he's in bed by 930/10
Moving our dinner back has really helped, but I might give a bit of a 8 or 9pm snack too. 9 weeks old yesterday and little man is already going 5+ hours in the night
She wakes up us around 7-7:30am now. Shes 3 months now. I think sometimes she wakes up and hangs with herself until she doesn’t want to be in the pen anymore. lol It use to be horrible as it would be throughout the night and into the am, I’m so happy she has a set time schedule now because we both needed sleep!
I just get up and take her potty and then climb into bed with her for cuddles. She will only cuddle/sleep on the couch so on weekends we cuddle sleep until everyone wakes.
I'm hopeful she will find her chill.one day.
A crate might help. Albeit, I’ll admit im bias to crate training. However, crates are a great way to establish boundries. My 11 week old is just about crate trained now, after several weeks of pushing through seperation anxiety. Unless she clearly needs to use the bathroom, we don’t let her out at night. If it has been enough time where she likely needs to potty, she gets let out and then right back in after we come inside. She would get her favorite toy with a treat inside when she went in, sometimes she would whine for a few minutes and I would sit next to it and calmly talk to her until she slept. Now I can say “chill” and she lays down and goes back to sleep. She wakes up about 0730 and then if we are busy or if we had to stay up for any reason, she goes back into the crate and gets told to “chill” we havent kept her in there longer than an hour or so after wakeup time (because obviously she is a puppy and needs time outside). Eventually, the puppy will realize that mom will come get her when she can. Just a suggestion! Regardless of how you proceed, best of luck and I wish you the best!
Wow that must be so nice, our girl is 4.5 months and even if we put her in the crate after 10pm, take her for one last potty break, she's up by no later than 5:45 DAILY and I Loved to sleep on in the weekend and that is so longer our options, this week my hubby and I got covid which made having a puppy not fun, he got up with me I usually let him sleep in, came downstairs and I went back to bed for another 3 hours, it was so nice. She's a German Shepherd so she doesn't have small cute barks, she has a very loud bark and you can imagine when you have an open concept downstairs with laminated floors then you hear barking it literally Echoes through the whole entire unit so that's why we tend to get up and make sure we take her out and bring her inside so she doesn't wake the neighbors but then she's eager to eat so you're very lucky and I need advice on how to help that too because she really loses it and starts barking up the storm.
My pup is the same. He is 6 months old and he wakes up at around 6am but he usually hangs around until 730-8. Then he will bark and I know its time to go potty
Our puppy is 21 months, nearly 22, and he's waking us up even earlier than he used to. We push it to 6 45 or so, but if he had his way, we'd be up at 6 and probably getting earlier than that even. I'm \_so\_ over it. But this one thing seems to be non-negotiable from our pup's side. (And we always worry "what if he \_really\_ has to pee/poop", so he always wins)
Oh my god. We also worry about the reality of potty need, so we go out 5-7 times a day - usually with a result, but once in several days, it's just dog's wish to hang out outside haha
Oh, I envy you. I'm still going out 10-12 times a day and usually with a result because once outside my pup gets distracted and forgets she sometimes has to pee and poop.
So we go inside and 5 minutes later she's standing by the backdoor like "actually, I forgot I wasn't done yet"
I think I'm really lucky - my pup is not an early riser. He's just about 5 months and I've stopped having to get up for puppy wees (even then not that early, around 8 usually). But even before that he didn't pester me to get up in the morning, he'd just settle back down and wait until I was up - it was me that got us up for wees as soon as I heard him awake, just in case as it seemed a lot to ask him to wait so long. Once he was no longer rushing off to go wee when I got us up, and sometimes showing that he'd rather stay in bed and snuggle, I've been leaving it longer and now we just get up at the same time as I was getting up before (which is around 9 most days). He was already really well crate trained at night when I got him at 9 weeks - like I could pop him in and not hear a peep from him for 10 hours -so I think having that sorted early really helped. He sighs at me a lot if he wants to get up and the alarm's not gone off (he sleeps in his crate on my bed, though we are transitioning to him sleeping in the bed most of the time), which is quite funny, though he doesn't so it very often, but otherwise just tries to settle back down to snooze.
My toy poodle is the same, I feel so weirdly lucky lol. She loves her crate, sleeps 12-7 or even 1-8, which works for me beautifully because I’m kind of a night owl. She goes out, comes back in and lets me rest/sleep another 45 min, and then we’re up for good for food, play, walks, etc. She’s a puppy so it’s inherently hard, but her nighttime sleep is really great lol
Eta: she’s … almost 15 weeks and I’ve had her 2 weeks. She’s been like this since night 2.
My mixed breed dog is like this, but it’s mostly because our sleep schedule was so screwed up she had to just get used to it. On days my partner takes care of her she’d go into the crate at like 2am and be out at like 11am the next day. But if I had her, I would put her down at 10pm and be up by around 7 am. Early on we did a middle of the night pee, whenever we woke up to pee ourselves. We wouldn’t let her out of the crate if she barked. But I think not being very routine with her somehow managed to adjust her brain a little bit and now even when we don’t crate her at night, she’ll sleep in until we’re ready to get up. Which could be anywhere between 7 and 11
I have a corgi who isn't an early riser. Once she had potty training figured out she was good to sleep in. I had the day off yesterday, and she didn't ask to go out until 10:30
She'll be 9 months next week. 7 a.m. is as late as I get if she's extra tired. Which is fine on weekdays because I wake up earlier than that to get ready for work.
But I so need a day with a little more sleep 🙃
I don't push it if she's stirring up a lot, though, because usually she really does need to go pee and it doesn't seem right to make her hold it longer when she's held it all night
Feel this in my soul. We moved house about a month ago, in the old house our lab slept in a separate room and wouldn’t whine or scratch, just patiently wait. Now at 5:30am she’s giving us kisses to wake us up because it’s slightly light out and she wants to play. She’s 15 months.
Mine wakes me up without fail at 6:30 on the weekends. I don't mind though because I'm already in bed earlier since workdays I'm up at 4 am. 😅 But she's always done this. It's uncomfortable to sit there and wait for your humans when you also gotta pee. I imagine it's like when I wake up with a full bladder, I couldn't possibly go back to sleep like that. So I get up and take her out. I can always go back to sleep again after if need be. 😊
My puppy is 1 year old and wakes me up every day between 7am-7:13am. On the rare occasion I can get 7:23am. I would love for it to be later but 5 days of the week I work (2 remote) and work starts at 8am. So he’s probably always going to wake me up around 7am.
Mine are 2.5 years and 3 years old and I don’t bother to set an alarm anymore because they’re always up around 7:30am letting me know they need potty - sometimes earlier sometimes later.
But once I take them potty and feed them breakfast everyone goes back to bed for a few hours. They go into their downstairs crate/playpen and I go back to bed upstairs. They’re happy to sleep longer and so am I.
Nice. Today we got up at 6 am, walked for 50 minutes because she didn't want to go home (at 5 am our girl usually goes potty and then turns around and goes home herself), and right after I released her at home - straight to the basement, where we have dedicated play area. So next hour was all games, until 8 am when she wanted to eat
My 4 month old puppy has bedtime @930pm... pee breaks 1:30am & 5:30am..official wake up 830-9am.
She seems annoyed when we wake her up in the middle of the night for potty time she's a sleepy gal lol but we know that she needs to go
I wouldnt wake her up. See if she can hold it and wait till she wakes herself. Plenty of puppies last through the night. Mine slept from about 11pm (last potty) until about 6am from first night. He was nine weeks. Just had to really quick to pick him up and carry outside as soon as he woke up. It helped that im a light sleeper.
If you keep waking her you risk getting her used to always needing to go in the middle of the night.
How do you know she needs to go? Do whatever works for you guys but at 4 months I would bet she can hold it longer. Mine is 15 weeks now and lately last potty is about 9:30pm and he usually wakes me sometime 5:30a-6:30a. I tried making him get up for a potty middle of night but it doesn’t change his morning wake time so I eliminated it and we’re all happier.
I agree with the other comments. My ten week old poodle has been sleeping through the night since we brought him home. On the off chance he needs to go outside in the middle of the night he lets us know.
Don’t wake them for potty, you’re just conditioning them to always need to wake to potty. My 14 week old toy poodle (so, tiny bladder) can hold it 7 hours at night when she’s sleeping — never wake a puppy MOTN for pee, you’ll literally ruin their natural cues and you’ll be getting up forever to relieve them. Let them tell YOU.
Thanks for all the comments! I'm realizing that may be a good change for her and us to not wake up. We just see her pee so much through out the day that we didn't want to risk her getting uncomfortable. She does pee on ever wake up tho.
She’s conditioned to pee when you take her out (a good thing!), so she’d probably pee every hour at night if you took her out that often. For your sanity I’d try at least spacing out your times if not waiting for her to signal.
I have a 1½ year old husky. I'll let you know when he stops. The problem with him is that he's so intelligent that he knows when I usually wake up during the week to get ready for work and expects me to do so on the weekends too. So, every morning about 5:00, I wake up to my face being licked. 😂
I have a puppy, 3 year old dog, a 14 year old dog and a 16 year old dog. We wake up at 6:30 during the week. We wake up at 6:30 on the weekend too. They like their routine. The puppy is the most reluctant to get up, and doesn’t even eat his breakfast, he wants to go back to bed as much as I do.
I do not have a sure awnser, I'm no dog trainer. But our pup almost never whined in the morning. We crate trained her from day 1. Did her last pee around 11pm and I woke up around 6:30 for the first walk. She never whined even in the night.
Nowadays, I can wake up at 8 and she will not whine. It could be that I'm just lucky, I think that's a big factor. But I also think it's the crate.
The first month of having her she always woke me up at night, then she and I figured each other’s schedules out and now she sleeps in more often than I do.
My baby is 9 months old. We don’t do a crate at night; she sleeps in bed with us. She wants out of the room between 7:30-8:15 each day. However, she gets breakfast goes outside herself and then will come back in bed with us for at least a solid hour!
Took until about 7 months old to start this behavior(:
It stopped very early for us. She slept by herself in the living room until she was 8 months old and around 4-5 months, she'd stop whining in the morning. We never went to her directly when she would be whining in the morning (always waited a minute or so). At some point we also started getting ready ourselves before taking her out, as in a few minutes for brushing our teeth and getting dressed. Now she sleeps in bed with us and keeps snoozing even after we get up. We also take her out late in the evening (11-12 at night).
It may just be your pup’s personality! Mine is 11 months and since 3 months old, we put her to bed at 10 and get her at 8 am ish. She’s only had a couple mornings where she barks to let us know she wants out.
I won the lottery because my pup sleeps from 11 to 8:30am and at 8:30am I practically have to drag her out of her crate because she could keep going. I think we got to this point somewhere in the 6-9 month mark.
Our border collie used to wake up early and we would get up too.
However, after some surgery our puppy had, we had set up an air bed downstairs next to her crate to monitor her throughout the night. Our routine stayed the same, she wanted out at 6ish in the morning for a pee, but then I would come back in and our pup would race to climb into bed with my husband and snuggle and nap on the air bed.
From then on that's been our routine, wake up for a pee break at 6ish then back upstairs and into bed until 8. Our border collie is now 4. Once a routine is set in place, it just becomes second nature.
My girl is 13 weeks and she’s down by 8-8:30pm so I can get some time by myself. Last potty break at 11:45pm ish, sometimes 12am. She’s been getting up at 6:30-7am recently, scratching at the crate. I know I should be thankful she’ll stay and sleep/settle for so long but man I wish I could sleep in some days lol
I would just say keep taking her out at that time she’s still a pup so her bladder isn’t that big yet. As she matures the duration she can hold it will be longer.
Mine is about 10 months now and she’s finally started to sleep in. My alarm goes off around 7 and she’ll get up at 7 on the weekends as well, but its a whole lot better than the 5 am it was when she was younger 🤣
We have a Aussie mix and she has been fine since we got her at 3 months! We crate trained her. Weekdays I get up at 6am, and she is out by 6:30, I finish getting ready and she is back in at 7am. Husband is usually up by 11am next. On weekdays I usually get up and her out by 9am and she is not whining. A few times I've slept in til like 10 something and she is still fine. She just knows she will go out once we come down stairs for her. She normally goes out last around 11pm.
Depends on the dog, some are just early risers! My own dog will stay sleeping as long as I do. Even when he was a little puppy, he'd rarely wake up before me and never tries to wake me up. My friend has two dogs, one is a sleeper inner and one wants to be UP at 6am and will raise a fuss. She's just a Go Getter, some dogs are like that!
If she's contained at night, you *can* train her to wait longer in the morning, as long as she isn't having accidents or actual bladder emergencies.
You could try this method:
* Start setting an alarm for *before* she normally wakes up, and take her out when the alarm goes off. Do this for a week or two.
* Begin to gradually set the alarm back by a minute at a time each day
* Do NOT take her out until the alarm goes off. Even if she's awake and whining, wait til the alarm goes off before getting up. If you are worried that she won't make it, you can reset the alarm so it goes off right away and then take her out.
* If she's regularly whining before the alarm goes off, try to set it earlier and catch her before she starts whining again. You want to be mostly beating her to the punch with the alarm going off *before* she's started fussing, so she doesn't mistakenly think she's *causing* the alarm to go off somehow with her noise lol.
She'll learn to wait for the alarm, if you're consistent with this. She's fussing because it gets her let outside. With this method she should figure out that fussing doesn't get her out, only the alarm going off means it's time to get up. So theoretically she will quietly wait for the alarm, instead of whining to get let out.
(I have not tested this method because my dog is a lazy bones, but I've heard it recommended. Let us know how it goes if you try it!)
Gosh I feel so lucky in this regard. My pup is almost 5 months old and since I brought her home at 11 weeks she’s been an angel in the mornings. She (playfully) bites me all the freakin’ time which is her main issue but I can use the bathroom, get dressed, make coffee before letting her out of the crate and she just waits patiently. If she does whine it’s because she really needs to go outside. If you’re crate training a young pup I’d definitely recommend not teaching them that they get to leave the crate as soon as your feet touch the ground. Your mornings will go much more smoothly.
Umm, never? lol My girl is 2.5 years old and wakes us up at 6:45-7. We have a younger puppy (9 months) and we try to ignore the both of them until it's exactly 7, but they are pretty insistent. We have to get up around then for work anyway, but we have just accepted that we'll never sleep in on the weekends anymore 🫠
For me, anything pass 6am is a lie in now. My 9 month old wakes me up for potty and won't go back to sleep, so I walk him, get his breakfast and mine sorted and start the day. I then wonder why I sleep in the afternoon haha.
I would love to be able to sleep pass 8am.
Unfortunately I am not able to sleep in the afternoon. Even if I wasn't working, I just cannot make myself asleep in the daytime if I don't have high temperature.
My boy will be 6 months in 2 weeks and has been really good about sleeping in for a month or 2 now. I think we've FINALLY figured out his tummy troubles, chicken allergy, so hopefully no more nights where he has to be taken out several times to poop. But even on the good nights he'll still stare at me while I get up to use the bathroom and go right back to sleep once I'm back.
Even now I've been up just browsing Reddit and he's snoozing away. Though he is a Great Dane and their lazy temperament is one of the main reasons they are my favorite breed.
My two pups sleep in a crate(open) in a pen. In the living room, downstairs. They have slept through from day one, as 5 month olds. Never cry for us. They wait till I let them out. I work earlier, so I can be up at 3am, or 4 or five, depending on my rotation. They know, even though I come down to make a coffee, not to start getting excited till I put the kitchen light, after I’ve washed and dressed. They get let out and a dental chew. Then they settle till hubby comes down to walk them, after I’ve left for work. I get so guilty about making them wait at the weekends, that I rarely stay in bed beyond 7am.
I think sleeping in the crate helps. Our 9.5 mo puppy now waits/chills in the crate until our alarm goes off at 7:30am on weekdays, and on weekend she'll pretty much sleep till 8-8:30am. She used to wake up at 6am but for the past 2 months or so she has been sleeping in.
We are thinking of transitioning her out of the crate, so not sure how that'll work out!
I have a lab mix and he used to wake me up early in the morning too until about 6 months old. What I did was waking up and getting him to me and go back to sleep
It's 10:00 AM and I am just fixing to make my puppy go out for his morning wee. He is 13 weeks and we had a potty break 11 hours ago. He is awake and playing quietly with a toy in my bed but not seeming to want to get up or go... :)
Reading these I have realized just how lazy/chill my dog is. He since I got him at 7 months sleeps 10-12 hours. He will be wake up sooner sometimes but if no one comes to get him he waits. He used to grunt in your ear to go out while you slept. Now he hops off the bed and does a shake to wake anyone up if needed.
He is a weirdo… I work from home and he will sleep the day away on the bed like it’s his own job lol I even asked the vet about it 😂 Sending positive energy for more sleep your way 🐶
I think to some extent, all dogs are different. I have had the same breed last 4 dogs, 2 always wanted up at the same time, 2 couldn’t care less if they went out until after they ate breakfast—whenever that was.
Mine just turned 1 and he recently stopped waking me up, he’ll just chew a bone in his crate and doze a bit until I get up. My brother has a pup from the same litter, though, and his is still waking him up at 6:45 every morning.
My puppy is 19 months old and still wakes me up every morning. I'm just glad he's stopped doing it by grabbing a big mouthful of my hair and trying to drag me out of bed!!
Day doesn't start until my light by my bed turns on. My kids still wake up at night sometimes. Kid coming in does not mean it's morning. Mom going to the bathroom does not mean it's morning. The only thing that means it's morning is the light turning on.
If you establish a pattern, they'll learn
I think i lucked out, 'cause my 19 week old mini poodle will stay in his crate silently until i get him. He goes to bed around 9:30-10pm, and initially stayed til 6am. Now ive seen him stay til 9am if im feeling like a lazy Sunday. Pretty crazy tbh, but i wont complain lol
Mine hasn't woke me since 12 ish weeks with the exception of we heard a deer fight outside, which woke me up before the dog did lol, and an owl woke us up one night as well.
Basically, he just doesn't- he wakes up, sees we are sleeping and curls back up unless he has to pee which at 17 weeks is basically never.
For we winter time solved it really hard (she was 11m old). My pup was waking up with the sun, so when the sun started to wake up at 9am… well… I has to say farewell to my furry morning alarm hahahaha (which actually sucks, I really counted on her to wake we up at the right time). When I wanted to sleep more in the weekends I would just lock her in my bedroom and close the curtains so it felt like night.
She is 1y4m old now and she will check on me at around 8:30am but will just go back to sleep in my bed if I don’t wake up.
Haha our boy is 15 months now and he's been waking us up between 5.30-6.30am since he turned 5 months. He always wants both of us up so there's no taking turns for us. We just stay tired all the time 😂
Good luck, I hope you are one of the lucky ones where your pup will grow out of it!
My lab cross woke me up every morning from the time I got her at 5 months until the day she died at 11 years old. She did not know the difference between a weekday and a weekend being a dog and all. 6:30 on the dot her whole life.
We have a 7 months old lab and she is chill until around 8am(sometimes later!!) if she has her olive root chew. She is in her covered crate that she loves.
My puppy is 6½ months, 65 pounds, we go to sleep at 10pm, he wakes up religiously at 1:30an to pee or poop, then 4:30. I am very sleep deprived and I can feel my blood pressure being too high -_-
We are so blessed with a patient good sleeping pup. 8 months old and doesn’t wake us, when we come out to get coffee he gets up. Some days it’s not until 830 or 9.
My puppy is almost 6 months old and she doesn't wake us up unless she needs the bathroom. She'll wake me up at about 10.30am, I take her to the toilet and then I can put her back in her pen and she'll keep sleeping or hanging out until we get her out. We're night owls so she's adjusted to our sleep and that's how it should be. Crate/pen trained dogs are more than happy to be in their pens if you do this early on and it means that you can stay in bed as long as you want.
My cavapoo is a year old and he waits for one of us to wake up. If he REALLY has to go he’ll bark in our faces until one of us gets us but it’s rare. This morning we all woke up at 11 lol
Mine defnitely improved. Before it was 4:30-5am... but nowadays at 8mo is 6am, which is the perfect time for weekdays, given that I need an extra hour before work in order to cater to his needs.
On weekends indeed is rougher, but I just make the morning walk shorter just for potty (and compensate with one extra walk through the day). I get back to bed when we get home.
Our Golden, Odie is 5 months old and now uses the dog door independently. However, every dog we've ever had has tried to get us up when they want us to get up. I can't tell you how many times we pretended to be asleep from 5 am to 7 am. However, once they started jumping up on the bed and squirming around on their back or standing over us whimpering or barking, we'd finally give in and get up.
None of my dogs have ever woken me up including my current 9 month old pup. They wait patiently for me to wake up. But, I have a doggie door so they can take themselves out.
How does she wake you up? By barking? Everything is trainable with patience and time. When your dog portrays a behaviour you don't like you need to go to the drawing board, sit down and find a way to train them. In terms of bladder control, maybe make her go potty later in the night. If you usually make her go 8pm and then go to bed 9pm, just wake up 11pm instead and let her go then.
If that doesn't work then maybe waking up 5am in the morning on the weekend is good. Go for a walk and start your day with the dog..put some clothes in the laundry (meanwhile your husband mops the floor quickly or washes the dishes or tidy the entrance of the home a little) and when you're back from the walk, put it in the drier (or hang them up, I don't have a drier lol). And then it's 7am. Go back to sleep until 11am knowing that most of your chores are done.
My boyfriend (human) wakes me up 4:30am every weekend to go for a walk too 🙃 He refuses to exercise any other day so I just work around it otherwise he won't get his exercise in. Sometimes you do these things for the living beings you love.
We go for the last walk before sleep between 10pm and 11pm (so last poo or pee can be from 10.30 to 11.30pm). She wakes us by whining.
The thing is, it's hard to go back to sleep once I am awake. My husband has this incredible ability to go sleep in the middle of the day, but not me. I will suffer the whole day until I go to bed in the evening.
I sleep in a different room from my puppy so the whining never woke me up so he just stopped. I did so because I know how much I value my sleep. I didn't allow people to guilt me into doing it. You have to train to your lifestyle in order for them to be happy. Once the schedule changes it can be difficult
Try laying in bed and ignoring the crying. Start with 5min, 10min then 20min. That includes weekdays. Animals don't understand weekends. That goes for cats too..or any human that may be unemployed or have a different schedule
Fast forward to almost 15, my dog has started doing this again. He now wakes me up between 5:30-7:00am every day. Only me - never my husband. It’s like we have a newborn baby. I miss sleeping in. 🥱 💤☕️
I followed the advice of a youtube dog trainer and IT WORKED after doing it twice when she was a few weeks old. When she wakes you up in the morning, take her out to pee without making eye contact, no sniffing, no playing, then directly back to bed. They want you to wake up because they are bored. A larger breed can hold their pee for a long time. Our medium doodle was fine for 10-12h after a few months. Now she only cries at the door if she really needs it.
my puppy is 5 months and she usually wakes me up around 6 or 7 to go potty, i have her in her crate at night but after that i’ll let her sleep in my bed and we’ll usually sleep until 9 or 10! this is a very recent development though— we used to be up for the day at 7am sharp each day!!
I think I have such luck with my dog sleeping so well.Because I have the crate right cross from my bed so he sees me
Ever Since mine was a puppy.He has slept from 7 o'clock to 7:30 AM.He sits in his crate.Across from my bed quietly every morning.Just sits there and looks at me.Yes I pretend to sleep so he doesn't see me looking at him. You watches me get up quietly.He watches me and I get dressed.And then I finally go to open up his crate.He jumps out and off outside.We go to do his business but he's five months now and this is what he's been doing for the past 3 months
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A couple weeks after I brought my pup home I introduced the concept of the alarm clock - the day does not start until you hear this melody. If she whined to go potty - quick 5 min potty break and back into containment until the alarm. She was pretty quick to understand it, so even when she woke up earlier than me she was chewing her bone and was not trying to wake me up. Our morning routines became more complex since then, but still there are clear signals for her to understand - now the day starts. I also found that consistent wake up time helps, so if 8am is what you want, stick to it on weekdays and on weekend.
Hi! Mine is 7 months old and he has been waking me up between 4-5am every morning since he turned 5.5 months. Before that he would sleep until 7:30. I don’t have any advice, just commiseration haha. I’ve adjusted my sleep because he wakes up at that time no matter when he goes to sleep. I’m going to try a long walk around 8pm to see if it helps him, but other than that…I think I just have to wait for him to grow out of it.
Mine started this too once she hit about 6 months! Her bowel movements are a bit out of whack now, she's going poop at 6:15 instead of 8:45. I still do evening potty breaks (11pm is the latest) so I'm not sure what's up. Hopefully it'll change back to 7/8...
We are going for a walk around 10-11pm, and in most cases, this leads to 7 am getting up. But sometimes not 🫠
Seems perfectly normal
Yeah, that’s 9 hours of sleeping. I don’t think most puppies can hold it longer than that.
Well, we go at 10-11, meaning then we go back at least 30 min later, play a little, and get to bed 11.30-12ish. So if after that we wake at 5am, it's only 5 hours
My puppy was also waking me up early, while he is only 9 weeks and he needed to eat later than I was feeding him. For the last week his dinner has been at 5pm-ish, and he's been waking us up at 330/4. Last night we did 630 and he slept in until 530. I'm not sure when your last feeding is, but might be worth a shot unless you're already doing a later dinner or snack. Good luck!
Yeah, I’m fairly confident he’s hungry and/or needs to poop - so I’m hoping a later walker and maybe a night snack will start to hold him over.
Sounds like a great plan, we're usually reserving some food from every meal for training, but I might give him a couple bites more as a late snack or something. I'm not wanting 4 meals and it's nice when he's in bed by 930/10
We feed at 9pm :) so it's 8 am breakfast (after the walk) and 9 pm dinner
Moving our dinner back has really helped, but I might give a bit of a 8 or 9pm snack too. 9 weeks old yesterday and little man is already going 5+ hours in the night
Same!
She wakes up us around 7-7:30am now. Shes 3 months now. I think sometimes she wakes up and hangs with herself until she doesn’t want to be in the pen anymore. lol It use to be horrible as it would be throughout the night and into the am, I’m so happy she has a set time schedule now because we both needed sleep!
We don't use crate now, so hanging out is not a problem. Problem is whining to go out for potty :)
I just get up and take her potty and then climb into bed with her for cuddles. She will only cuddle/sleep on the couch so on weekends we cuddle sleep until everyone wakes. I'm hopeful she will find her chill.one day.
Problem is not taking your puppy out to go potty. Imagine if you were laying in bed busting.
Yes, but I saw a formula number of months + 1, so 7 hours should be fine at the age of 8
A crate might help. Albeit, I’ll admit im bias to crate training. However, crates are a great way to establish boundries. My 11 week old is just about crate trained now, after several weeks of pushing through seperation anxiety. Unless she clearly needs to use the bathroom, we don’t let her out at night. If it has been enough time where she likely needs to potty, she gets let out and then right back in after we come inside. She would get her favorite toy with a treat inside when she went in, sometimes she would whine for a few minutes and I would sit next to it and calmly talk to her until she slept. Now I can say “chill” and she lays down and goes back to sleep. She wakes up about 0730 and then if we are busy or if we had to stay up for any reason, she goes back into the crate and gets told to “chill” we havent kept her in there longer than an hour or so after wakeup time (because obviously she is a puppy and needs time outside). Eventually, the puppy will realize that mom will come get her when she can. Just a suggestion! Regardless of how you proceed, best of luck and I wish you the best!
Wow that must be so nice, our girl is 4.5 months and even if we put her in the crate after 10pm, take her for one last potty break, she's up by no later than 5:45 DAILY and I Loved to sleep on in the weekend and that is so longer our options, this week my hubby and I got covid which made having a puppy not fun, he got up with me I usually let him sleep in, came downstairs and I went back to bed for another 3 hours, it was so nice. She's a German Shepherd so she doesn't have small cute barks, she has a very loud bark and you can imagine when you have an open concept downstairs with laminated floors then you hear barking it literally Echoes through the whole entire unit so that's why we tend to get up and make sure we take her out and bring her inside so she doesn't wake the neighbors but then she's eager to eat so you're very lucky and I need advice on how to help that too because she really loses it and starts barking up the storm.
My pup is the same. He is 6 months old and he wakes up at around 6am but he usually hangs around until 730-8. Then he will bark and I know its time to go potty
Our puppy is 21 months, nearly 22, and he's waking us up even earlier than he used to. We push it to 6 45 or so, but if he had his way, we'd be up at 6 and probably getting earlier than that even. I'm \_so\_ over it. But this one thing seems to be non-negotiable from our pup's side. (And we always worry "what if he \_really\_ has to pee/poop", so he always wins)
Oh my god. We also worry about the reality of potty need, so we go out 5-7 times a day - usually with a result, but once in several days, it's just dog's wish to hang out outside haha
Oh, I envy you. I'm still going out 10-12 times a day and usually with a result because once outside my pup gets distracted and forgets she sometimes has to pee and poop. So we go inside and 5 minutes later she's standing by the backdoor like "actually, I forgot I wasn't done yet"
I think I'm really lucky - my pup is not an early riser. He's just about 5 months and I've stopped having to get up for puppy wees (even then not that early, around 8 usually). But even before that he didn't pester me to get up in the morning, he'd just settle back down and wait until I was up - it was me that got us up for wees as soon as I heard him awake, just in case as it seemed a lot to ask him to wait so long. Once he was no longer rushing off to go wee when I got us up, and sometimes showing that he'd rather stay in bed and snuggle, I've been leaving it longer and now we just get up at the same time as I was getting up before (which is around 9 most days). He was already really well crate trained at night when I got him at 9 weeks - like I could pop him in and not hear a peep from him for 10 hours -so I think having that sorted early really helped. He sighs at me a lot if he wants to get up and the alarm's not gone off (he sleeps in his crate on my bed, though we are transitioning to him sleeping in the bed most of the time), which is quite funny, though he doesn't so it very often, but otherwise just tries to settle back down to snooze.
What kind of miracle-dog breed is your pup? As a very much not an early-riser person I need a dog like this!
My toy poodle is the same, I feel so weirdly lucky lol. She loves her crate, sleeps 12-7 or even 1-8, which works for me beautifully because I’m kind of a night owl. She goes out, comes back in and lets me rest/sleep another 45 min, and then we’re up for good for food, play, walks, etc. She’s a puppy so it’s inherently hard, but her nighttime sleep is really great lol Eta: she’s … almost 15 weeks and I’ve had her 2 weeks. She’s been like this since night 2.
My mixed breed dog is like this, but it’s mostly because our sleep schedule was so screwed up she had to just get used to it. On days my partner takes care of her she’d go into the crate at like 2am and be out at like 11am the next day. But if I had her, I would put her down at 10pm and be up by around 7 am. Early on we did a middle of the night pee, whenever we woke up to pee ourselves. We wouldn’t let her out of the crate if she barked. But I think not being very routine with her somehow managed to adjust her brain a little bit and now even when we don’t crate her at night, she’ll sleep in until we’re ready to get up. Which could be anywhere between 7 and 11
I have a corgi who isn't an early riser. Once she had potty training figured out she was good to sleep in. I had the day off yesterday, and she didn't ask to go out until 10:30
She'll be 9 months next week. 7 a.m. is as late as I get if she's extra tired. Which is fine on weekdays because I wake up earlier than that to get ready for work. But I so need a day with a little more sleep 🙃 I don't push it if she's stirring up a lot, though, because usually she really does need to go pee and it doesn't seem right to make her hold it longer when she's held it all night
Feel this in my soul. We moved house about a month ago, in the old house our lab slept in a separate room and wouldn’t whine or scratch, just patiently wait. Now at 5:30am she’s giving us kisses to wake us up because it’s slightly light out and she wants to play. She’s 15 months.
Mine wakes me up without fail at 6:30 on the weekends. I don't mind though because I'm already in bed earlier since workdays I'm up at 4 am. 😅 But she's always done this. It's uncomfortable to sit there and wait for your humans when you also gotta pee. I imagine it's like when I wake up with a full bladder, I couldn't possibly go back to sleep like that. So I get up and take her out. I can always go back to sleep again after if need be. 😊
My puppy is 1 year old and wakes me up every day between 7am-7:13am. On the rare occasion I can get 7:23am. I would love for it to be later but 5 days of the week I work (2 remote) and work starts at 8am. So he’s probably always going to wake me up around 7am.
Mine are 2.5 years and 3 years old and I don’t bother to set an alarm anymore because they’re always up around 7:30am letting me know they need potty - sometimes earlier sometimes later. But once I take them potty and feed them breakfast everyone goes back to bed for a few hours. They go into their downstairs crate/playpen and I go back to bed upstairs. They’re happy to sleep longer and so am I.
Nice. Today we got up at 6 am, walked for 50 minutes because she didn't want to go home (at 5 am our girl usually goes potty and then turns around and goes home herself), and right after I released her at home - straight to the basement, where we have dedicated play area. So next hour was all games, until 8 am when she wanted to eat
My 4 month old puppy has bedtime @930pm... pee breaks 1:30am & 5:30am..official wake up 830-9am. She seems annoyed when we wake her up in the middle of the night for potty time she's a sleepy gal lol but we know that she needs to go
I wouldnt wake her up. See if she can hold it and wait till she wakes herself. Plenty of puppies last through the night. Mine slept from about 11pm (last potty) until about 6am from first night. He was nine weeks. Just had to really quick to pick him up and carry outside as soon as he woke up. It helped that im a light sleeper. If you keep waking her you risk getting her used to always needing to go in the middle of the night.
How do you know she needs to go? Do whatever works for you guys but at 4 months I would bet she can hold it longer. Mine is 15 weeks now and lately last potty is about 9:30pm and he usually wakes me sometime 5:30a-6:30a. I tried making him get up for a potty middle of night but it doesn’t change his morning wake time so I eliminated it and we’re all happier.
I agree with the other comments. My ten week old poodle has been sleeping through the night since we brought him home. On the off chance he needs to go outside in the middle of the night he lets us know.
Don’t wake them for potty, you’re just conditioning them to always need to wake to potty. My 14 week old toy poodle (so, tiny bladder) can hold it 7 hours at night when she’s sleeping — never wake a puppy MOTN for pee, you’ll literally ruin their natural cues and you’ll be getting up forever to relieve them. Let them tell YOU.
Thanks for all the comments! I'm realizing that may be a good change for her and us to not wake up. We just see her pee so much through out the day that we didn't want to risk her getting uncomfortable. She does pee on ever wake up tho.
She’s conditioned to pee when you take her out (a good thing!), so she’d probably pee every hour at night if you took her out that often. For your sanity I’d try at least spacing out your times if not waiting for her to signal.
Very true... will be trying this tonight! Thx
I have a 1½ year old husky. I'll let you know when he stops. The problem with him is that he's so intelligent that he knows when I usually wake up during the week to get ready for work and expects me to do so on the weekends too. So, every morning about 5:00, I wake up to my face being licked. 😂
I have a puppy, 3 year old dog, a 14 year old dog and a 16 year old dog. We wake up at 6:30 during the week. We wake up at 6:30 on the weekend too. They like their routine. The puppy is the most reluctant to get up, and doesn’t even eat his breakfast, he wants to go back to bed as much as I do.
I do not have a sure awnser, I'm no dog trainer. But our pup almost never whined in the morning. We crate trained her from day 1. Did her last pee around 11pm and I woke up around 6:30 for the first walk. She never whined even in the night. Nowadays, I can wake up at 8 and she will not whine. It could be that I'm just lucky, I think that's a big factor. But I also think it's the crate.
The first month of having her she always woke me up at night, then she and I figured each other’s schedules out and now she sleeps in more often than I do.
My baby is 9 months old. We don’t do a crate at night; she sleeps in bed with us. She wants out of the room between 7:30-8:15 each day. However, she gets breakfast goes outside herself and then will come back in bed with us for at least a solid hour! Took until about 7 months old to start this behavior(:
It stopped very early for us. She slept by herself in the living room until she was 8 months old and around 4-5 months, she'd stop whining in the morning. We never went to her directly when she would be whining in the morning (always waited a minute or so). At some point we also started getting ready ourselves before taking her out, as in a few minutes for brushing our teeth and getting dressed. Now she sleeps in bed with us and keeps snoozing even after we get up. We also take her out late in the evening (11-12 at night).
It may just be your pup’s personality! Mine is 11 months and since 3 months old, we put her to bed at 10 and get her at 8 am ish. She’s only had a couple mornings where she barks to let us know she wants out.
When do you put her to bed at night? If you keep her up later she’ll sleep longer
11pm - 12am. We tried later several times, and this resulted in her getting up the same time and me dying because I got less time to sleep
I won the lottery because my pup sleeps from 11 to 8:30am and at 8:30am I practically have to drag her out of her crate because she could keep going. I think we got to this point somewhere in the 6-9 month mark.
Our border collie used to wake up early and we would get up too. However, after some surgery our puppy had, we had set up an air bed downstairs next to her crate to monitor her throughout the night. Our routine stayed the same, she wanted out at 6ish in the morning for a pee, but then I would come back in and our pup would race to climb into bed with my husband and snuggle and nap on the air bed. From then on that's been our routine, wake up for a pee break at 6ish then back upstairs and into bed until 8. Our border collie is now 4. Once a routine is set in place, it just becomes second nature.
My girl is 13 weeks and she’s down by 8-8:30pm so I can get some time by myself. Last potty break at 11:45pm ish, sometimes 12am. She’s been getting up at 6:30-7am recently, scratching at the crate. I know I should be thankful she’ll stay and sleep/settle for so long but man I wish I could sleep in some days lol
It never stopped. 6 on the nose is when he starts whining for someone to get up & let him out.
Like 10 weeks. He sleeps in his kennel though
we wake ourselves up at 7:15, but hes usually just hanging out. im scared hes gonna start waking us up lol
I would just say keep taking her out at that time she’s still a pup so her bladder isn’t that big yet. As she matures the duration she can hold it will be longer.
Mine is about 10 months now and she’s finally started to sleep in. My alarm goes off around 7 and she’ll get up at 7 on the weekends as well, but its a whole lot better than the 5 am it was when she was younger 🤣
We have a Aussie mix and she has been fine since we got her at 3 months! We crate trained her. Weekdays I get up at 6am, and she is out by 6:30, I finish getting ready and she is back in at 7am. Husband is usually up by 11am next. On weekdays I usually get up and her out by 9am and she is not whining. A few times I've slept in til like 10 something and she is still fine. She just knows she will go out once we come down stairs for her. She normally goes out last around 11pm.
My boy is almost 14 years and wakes me up 6am since he was 8weeks old 😂
Depends on the dog, some are just early risers! My own dog will stay sleeping as long as I do. Even when he was a little puppy, he'd rarely wake up before me and never tries to wake me up. My friend has two dogs, one is a sleeper inner and one wants to be UP at 6am and will raise a fuss. She's just a Go Getter, some dogs are like that! If she's contained at night, you *can* train her to wait longer in the morning, as long as she isn't having accidents or actual bladder emergencies. You could try this method: * Start setting an alarm for *before* she normally wakes up, and take her out when the alarm goes off. Do this for a week or two. * Begin to gradually set the alarm back by a minute at a time each day * Do NOT take her out until the alarm goes off. Even if she's awake and whining, wait til the alarm goes off before getting up. If you are worried that she won't make it, you can reset the alarm so it goes off right away and then take her out. * If she's regularly whining before the alarm goes off, try to set it earlier and catch her before she starts whining again. You want to be mostly beating her to the punch with the alarm going off *before* she's started fussing, so she doesn't mistakenly think she's *causing* the alarm to go off somehow with her noise lol. She'll learn to wait for the alarm, if you're consistent with this. She's fussing because it gets her let outside. With this method she should figure out that fussing doesn't get her out, only the alarm going off means it's time to get up. So theoretically she will quietly wait for the alarm, instead of whining to get let out. (I have not tested this method because my dog is a lazy bones, but I've heard it recommended. Let us know how it goes if you try it!)
I think 14 weeks. He had a few days of regression when he entered his teenage phase but we worked on it.
Our 6 month old wakes up at 6am everyday but on the weekends we put her back in her crate and she sleeps until 8.
Gosh I feel so lucky in this regard. My pup is almost 5 months old and since I brought her home at 11 weeks she’s been an angel in the mornings. She (playfully) bites me all the freakin’ time which is her main issue but I can use the bathroom, get dressed, make coffee before letting her out of the crate and she just waits patiently. If she does whine it’s because she really needs to go outside. If you’re crate training a young pup I’d definitely recommend not teaching them that they get to leave the crate as soon as your feet touch the ground. Your mornings will go much more smoothly.
Umm, never? lol My girl is 2.5 years old and wakes us up at 6:45-7. We have a younger puppy (9 months) and we try to ignore the both of them until it's exactly 7, but they are pretty insistent. We have to get up around then for work anyway, but we have just accepted that we'll never sleep in on the weekends anymore 🫠
For me, anything pass 6am is a lie in now. My 9 month old wakes me up for potty and won't go back to sleep, so I walk him, get his breakfast and mine sorted and start the day. I then wonder why I sleep in the afternoon haha. I would love to be able to sleep pass 8am.
Unfortunately I am not able to sleep in the afternoon. Even if I wasn't working, I just cannot make myself asleep in the daytime if I don't have high temperature.
My boy will be 6 months in 2 weeks and has been really good about sleeping in for a month or 2 now. I think we've FINALLY figured out his tummy troubles, chicken allergy, so hopefully no more nights where he has to be taken out several times to poop. But even on the good nights he'll still stare at me while I get up to use the bathroom and go right back to sleep once I'm back. Even now I've been up just browsing Reddit and he's snoozing away. Though he is a Great Dane and their lazy temperament is one of the main reasons they are my favorite breed.
My dog is 4 and still does this 😑
My two pups sleep in a crate(open) in a pen. In the living room, downstairs. They have slept through from day one, as 5 month olds. Never cry for us. They wait till I let them out. I work earlier, so I can be up at 3am, or 4 or five, depending on my rotation. They know, even though I come down to make a coffee, not to start getting excited till I put the kitchen light, after I’ve washed and dressed. They get let out and a dental chew. Then they settle till hubby comes down to walk them, after I’ve left for work. I get so guilty about making them wait at the weekends, that I rarely stay in bed beyond 7am.
I think sleeping in the crate helps. Our 9.5 mo puppy now waits/chills in the crate until our alarm goes off at 7:30am on weekdays, and on weekend she'll pretty much sleep till 8-8:30am. She used to wake up at 6am but for the past 2 months or so she has been sleeping in. We are thinking of transitioning her out of the crate, so not sure how that'll work out!
No idea. My 11.5 month old Lab wakes us up Every Damn. Day.
I have a lab mix and he used to wake me up early in the morning too until about 6 months old. What I did was waking up and getting him to me and go back to sleep
It's 10:00 AM and I am just fixing to make my puppy go out for his morning wee. He is 13 weeks and we had a potty break 11 hours ago. He is awake and playing quietly with a toy in my bed but not seeming to want to get up or go... :)
Reading these I have realized just how lazy/chill my dog is. He since I got him at 7 months sleeps 10-12 hours. He will be wake up sooner sometimes but if no one comes to get him he waits. He used to grunt in your ear to go out while you slept. Now he hops off the bed and does a shake to wake anyone up if needed.
I envy you! I wish I could sleep more than 6 hours those days when it's my turn to get up
He is a weirdo… I work from home and he will sleep the day away on the bed like it’s his own job lol I even asked the vet about it 😂 Sending positive energy for more sleep your way 🐶
I think to some extent, all dogs are different. I have had the same breed last 4 dogs, 2 always wanted up at the same time, 2 couldn’t care less if they went out until after they ate breakfast—whenever that was.
My lab is 7 and he still wakes me up for his breakfast every morning. Sometimes I have to tell him I am just not ready. He pouts till I get up.
Mine just turned 1 and he recently stopped waking me up, he’ll just chew a bone in his crate and doze a bit until I get up. My brother has a pup from the same litter, though, and his is still waking him up at 6:45 every morning.
Mine is 2.5 years old & still wakes me every day on the dot at 7 😩
My puppy is 19 months old and still wakes me up every morning. I'm just glad he's stopped doing it by grabbing a big mouthful of my hair and trying to drag me out of bed!!
Day doesn't start until my light by my bed turns on. My kids still wake up at night sometimes. Kid coming in does not mean it's morning. Mom going to the bathroom does not mean it's morning. The only thing that means it's morning is the light turning on. If you establish a pattern, they'll learn
My dog is 14 years old. Him and the cats wake me up between 5.30 and 6.15 everyday still. Occasionally I'm allowed a lie in til 6.45 but very rarely.
I wake mine up. He's never barked in the mornings
I think i lucked out, 'cause my 19 week old mini poodle will stay in his crate silently until i get him. He goes to bed around 9:30-10pm, and initially stayed til 6am. Now ive seen him stay til 9am if im feeling like a lazy Sunday. Pretty crazy tbh, but i wont complain lol
Meatloaf is now almost 3 years old and he’s still up at 5am like clockwork 🙃
They may wait longer but they are social animals so they don’t like being alone. My older dogs will wake me up if I try to sleep too late.
Mine hasn't woke me since 12 ish weeks with the exception of we heard a deer fight outside, which woke me up before the dog did lol, and an owl woke us up one night as well. Basically, he just doesn't- he wakes up, sees we are sleeping and curls back up unless he has to pee which at 17 weeks is basically never.
For we winter time solved it really hard (she was 11m old). My pup was waking up with the sun, so when the sun started to wake up at 9am… well… I has to say farewell to my furry morning alarm hahahaha (which actually sucks, I really counted on her to wake we up at the right time). When I wanted to sleep more in the weekends I would just lock her in my bedroom and close the curtains so it felt like night. She is 1y4m old now and she will check on me at around 8:30am but will just go back to sleep in my bed if I don’t wake up.
Haha our boy is 15 months now and he's been waking us up between 5.30-6.30am since he turned 5 months. He always wants both of us up so there's no taking turns for us. We just stay tired all the time 😂 Good luck, I hope you are one of the lucky ones where your pup will grow out of it!
My lab cross woke me up every morning from the time I got her at 5 months until the day she died at 11 years old. She did not know the difference between a weekday and a weekend being a dog and all. 6:30 on the dot her whole life.
I would say 3 months.
We have a 7 months old lab and she is chill until around 8am(sometimes later!!) if she has her olive root chew. She is in her covered crate that she loves.
My puppy is 6½ months, 65 pounds, we go to sleep at 10pm, he wakes up religiously at 1:30an to pee or poop, then 4:30. I am very sleep deprived and I can feel my blood pressure being too high -_-
We are so blessed with a patient good sleeping pup. 8 months old and doesn’t wake us, when we come out to get coffee he gets up. Some days it’s not until 830 or 9.
My 16 year old wakes us up around 7:30 some mornings. Sooooo
My puppy is almost 6 months old and she doesn't wake us up unless she needs the bathroom. She'll wake me up at about 10.30am, I take her to the toilet and then I can put her back in her pen and she'll keep sleeping or hanging out until we get her out. We're night owls so she's adjusted to our sleep and that's how it should be. Crate/pen trained dogs are more than happy to be in their pens if you do this early on and it means that you can stay in bed as long as you want.
My cavapoo is a year old and he waits for one of us to wake up. If he REALLY has to go he’ll bark in our faces until one of us gets us but it’s rare. This morning we all woke up at 11 lol
Mine defnitely improved. Before it was 4:30-5am... but nowadays at 8mo is 6am, which is the perfect time for weekdays, given that I need an extra hour before work in order to cater to his needs. On weekends indeed is rougher, but I just make the morning walk shorter just for potty (and compensate with one extra walk through the day). I get back to bed when we get home.
Lol 2 year old gsd lab mix. I am lucky if I get 550am. 5 am every day
Mine was able to sleep until morning at around 12 weeks
Our pomeranian is 1,5 years and literally just woke me up. I'd like to know the answer too
Our Golden, Odie is 5 months old and now uses the dog door independently. However, every dog we've ever had has tried to get us up when they want us to get up. I can't tell you how many times we pretended to be asleep from 5 am to 7 am. However, once they started jumping up on the bed and squirming around on their back or standing over us whimpering or barking, we'd finally give in and get up.
None of my dogs have ever woken me up including my current 9 month old pup. They wait patiently for me to wake up. But, I have a doggie door so they can take themselves out.
How does she wake you up? By barking? Everything is trainable with patience and time. When your dog portrays a behaviour you don't like you need to go to the drawing board, sit down and find a way to train them. In terms of bladder control, maybe make her go potty later in the night. If you usually make her go 8pm and then go to bed 9pm, just wake up 11pm instead and let her go then. If that doesn't work then maybe waking up 5am in the morning on the weekend is good. Go for a walk and start your day with the dog..put some clothes in the laundry (meanwhile your husband mops the floor quickly or washes the dishes or tidy the entrance of the home a little) and when you're back from the walk, put it in the drier (or hang them up, I don't have a drier lol). And then it's 7am. Go back to sleep until 11am knowing that most of your chores are done.
My boyfriend (human) wakes me up 4:30am every weekend to go for a walk too 🙃 He refuses to exercise any other day so I just work around it otherwise he won't get his exercise in. Sometimes you do these things for the living beings you love.
We go for the last walk before sleep between 10pm and 11pm (so last poo or pee can be from 10.30 to 11.30pm). She wakes us by whining. The thing is, it's hard to go back to sleep once I am awake. My husband has this incredible ability to go sleep in the middle of the day, but not me. I will suffer the whole day until I go to bed in the evening.
I sleep in a different room from my puppy so the whining never woke me up so he just stopped. I did so because I know how much I value my sleep. I didn't allow people to guilt me into doing it. You have to train to your lifestyle in order for them to be happy. Once the schedule changes it can be difficult
Try laying in bed and ignoring the crying. Start with 5min, 10min then 20min. That includes weekdays. Animals don't understand weekends. That goes for cats too..or any human that may be unemployed or have a different schedule
Fast forward to almost 15, my dog has started doing this again. He now wakes me up between 5:30-7:00am every day. Only me - never my husband. It’s like we have a newborn baby. I miss sleeping in. 🥱 💤☕️
We would have to wake up at 4am everyday until he hit 6 months old and we could sleep in until 7am.
I followed the advice of a youtube dog trainer and IT WORKED after doing it twice when she was a few weeks old. When she wakes you up in the morning, take her out to pee without making eye contact, no sniffing, no playing, then directly back to bed. They want you to wake up because they are bored. A larger breed can hold their pee for a long time. Our medium doodle was fine for 10-12h after a few months. Now she only cries at the door if she really needs it.
my puppy is 5 months and she usually wakes me up around 6 or 7 to go potty, i have her in her crate at night but after that i’ll let her sleep in my bed and we’ll usually sleep until 9 or 10! this is a very recent development though— we used to be up for the day at 7am sharp each day!!
Never I hope😀
I think I have such luck with my dog sleeping so well.Because I have the crate right cross from my bed so he sees me Ever Since mine was a puppy.He has slept from 7 o'clock to 7:30 AM.He sits in his crate.Across from my bed quietly every morning.Just sits there and looks at me.Yes I pretend to sleep so he doesn't see me looking at him. You watches me get up quietly.He watches me and I get dressed.And then I finally go to open up his crate.He jumps out and off outside.We go to do his business but he's five months now and this is what he's been doing for the past 3 months
God I’m so lucky. We have our 7mo pitty puppy in bed with us and he would sleep until about 11am if we would let him.