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Help: Puppy Won't Sleep
Hi, there.
My wife and I had decided that we were going to get a dog, a puppy. We are both dog people, but in this case our youngest -- who has a dog at my wife's ex-husband's home -- has been talking incessantly about a dog. The last puppy I had was in a previous marriage, 8 years ago, so I'm a little rusty. We had hoped to have some time to research things more, but last week we were the victims of a "drive-by dogging" and ended up with a little mixed-breed bitch. The problem: she cries quite a bit in the middle of the night. We live in a small house, so it's not easy to segregate her where we won't hear her. She's waking up about once every 45 minutes to 90 minutes, crying in her crate. At first we had it in a different room, but she woke up and was very, very loud, waking up all of us. We moved it into our room where she knows where we are, but it just means that the quieter cries are much closer to us. I've been getting up with her, but it's really taking its toll on both of us. This is our second week with her (and due to an unfortunate bit of timing, she had to be boarded at the vet's over the weekend; not a bad thing, really, as they were able to deworm her and fix up some other problems), and so far neither of us have had much of a good night's sleep. I realize she doesn't have any bladder control, so getting up to let her out isn't a big deal. The problem is that I think half the time she is just not tired enough, and the last time she wakes up it's obvious she just wants to play. Can anyone give us suggestions, other than just persevering? I know if we let her out of her crate and let her sleep on the bed, she'd get us up to go outside and not much more than that, but that means we'd have to let her sleep in the bed with us for the rest of her life! We don't want to go there. I plan to try something tonight, taking her for a long walk before we go to bed, which should help. Anyone have some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Allan Goodall http://www.hyperbear.com "The only normal people are the ones you don't know well!" - Joe Ancis |
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-- "Allan Goodall" wrote in message ... Hi, there. My wife and I had decided that we were going to get a dog, a puppy. We are both dog people, but in this case our youngest -- who has a dog at my wife's ex-husband's home -- has been talking incessantly about a dog. The last puppy I had was in a previous marriage, 8 years ago, so I'm a little rusty. We had hoped to have some time to research things more, but last week we were the victims of a "drive-by dogging" and ended up with a little mixed-breed bitch. The problem: she cries quite a bit in the middle of the night. We live in a small house, so it's not easy to segregate her where we won't hear her. She's waking up about once every 45 minutes to 90 minutes, crying in her crate. At first we had it in a different room, but she woke up and was very, very loud, waking up all of us. We moved it into our room where she knows where we are, but it just means that the quieter cries are much closer to us. I've been getting up with her, but it's really taking its toll on both of us. This is our second week with her (and due to an unfortunate bit of timing, she had to be boarded at the vet's over the weekend; not a bad thing, really, as they were able to deworm her and fix up some other problems), and so far neither of us have had much of a good night's sleep. I realize she doesn't have any bladder control, so getting up to let her out isn't a big deal. The problem is that I think half the time she is just not tired enough, and the last time she wakes up it's obvious she just wants to play. Can anyone give us suggestions, other than just persevering? I know if we let her out of her crate and let her sleep on the bed, she'd get us up to go outside and not much more than that, but that means we'd have to let her sleep in the bed with us for the rest of her life! We don't want to go there. I plan to try something tonight, taking her for a long walk before we go to bed, which should help. Anyone have some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Allan Goodall http://www.hyperbear.com "The only normal people are the ones you don't know well!" - Joe Ancis David Replies: As with a human child if you keep going to her in the night guess what she knows that crying will make you come end of story..... So the fix is a simple piece of planning, do not feed her within 4 to 6 hours of bed time then supply her with a small Kong with yummy food in it, she will wake go for the Kong use up energy and then fall asleep, she will keep repeating this until she really tires and problem solved. David Sweeney STI QK9SARG "Send Seek Find" www.qk9sarg.org www.qk9sarg.org |
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-- "Allan Goodall" wrote in message ... Hi, there. My wife and I had decided that we were going to get a dog, a puppy. We are both dog people, but in this case our youngest -- who has a dog at my wife's ex-husband's home -- has been talking incessantly about a dog. The last puppy I had was in a previous marriage, 8 years ago, so I'm a little rusty. We had hoped to have some time to research things more, but last week we were the victims of a "drive-by dogging" and ended up with a little mixed-breed bitch. The problem: she cries quite a bit in the middle of the night. We live in a small house, so it's not easy to segregate her where we won't hear her. She's waking up about once every 45 minutes to 90 minutes, crying in her crate. At first we had it in a different room, but she woke up and was very, very loud, waking up all of us. We moved it into our room where she knows where we are, but it just means that the quieter cries are much closer to us. I've been getting up with her, but it's really taking its toll on both of us. This is our second week with her (and due to an unfortunate bit of timing, she had to be boarded at the vet's over the weekend; not a bad thing, really, as they were able to deworm her and fix up some other problems), and so far neither of us have had much of a good night's sleep. I realize she doesn't have any bladder control, so getting up to let her out isn't a big deal. The problem is that I think half the time she is just not tired enough, and the last time she wakes up it's obvious she just wants to play. Can anyone give us suggestions, other than just persevering? I know if we let her out of her crate and let her sleep on the bed, she'd get us up to go outside and not much more than that, but that means we'd have to let her sleep in the bed with us for the rest of her life! We don't want to go there. I plan to try something tonight, taking her for a long walk before we go to bed, which should help. Anyone have some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Allan Goodall http://www.hyperbear.com "The only normal people are the ones you don't know well!" - Joe Ancis David Replies: As with a human child if you keep going to her in the night guess what she knows that crying will make you come end of story..... So the fix is a simple piece of planning, do not feed her within 4 to 6 hours of bed time then supply her with a small Kong with yummy food in it, she will wake go for the Kong use up energy and then fall asleep, she will keep repeating this until she really tires and problem solved. David Sweeney STI QK9SARG "Send Seek Find" www.qk9sarg.org www.qk9sarg.org |
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-- "Allan Goodall" wrote in message ... Hi, there. My wife and I had decided that we were going to get a dog, a puppy. We are both dog people, but in this case our youngest -- who has a dog at my wife's ex-husband's home -- has been talking incessantly about a dog. The last puppy I had was in a previous marriage, 8 years ago, so I'm a little rusty. We had hoped to have some time to research things more, but last week we were the victims of a "drive-by dogging" and ended up with a little mixed-breed bitch. The problem: she cries quite a bit in the middle of the night. We live in a small house, so it's not easy to segregate her where we won't hear her. She's waking up about once every 45 minutes to 90 minutes, crying in her crate. At first we had it in a different room, but she woke up and was very, very loud, waking up all of us. We moved it into our room where she knows where we are, but it just means that the quieter cries are much closer to us. I've been getting up with her, but it's really taking its toll on both of us. This is our second week with her (and due to an unfortunate bit of timing, she had to be boarded at the vet's over the weekend; not a bad thing, really, as they were able to deworm her and fix up some other problems), and so far neither of us have had much of a good night's sleep. I realize she doesn't have any bladder control, so getting up to let her out isn't a big deal. The problem is that I think half the time she is just not tired enough, and the last time she wakes up it's obvious she just wants to play. Can anyone give us suggestions, other than just persevering? I know if we let her out of her crate and let her sleep on the bed, she'd get us up to go outside and not much more than that, but that means we'd have to let her sleep in the bed with us for the rest of her life! We don't want to go there. I plan to try something tonight, taking her for a long walk before we go to bed, which should help. Anyone have some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Allan Goodall http://www.hyperbear.com "The only normal people are the ones you don't know well!" - Joe Ancis David Replies: As with a human child if you keep going to her in the night guess what she knows that crying will make you come end of story..... So the fix is a simple piece of planning, do not feed her within 4 to 6 hours of bed time then supply her with a small Kong with yummy food in it, she will wake go for the Kong use up energy and then fall asleep, she will keep repeating this until she really tires and problem solved. David Sweeney STI QK9SARG "Send Seek Find" www.qk9sarg.org www.qk9sarg.org |
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"Allan Goodall" wrote in message ... [..] Can anyone give us suggestions, other than just persevering? I know if we let her out of her crate and let her sleep on the bed, she'd get us up to go outside and not much more than that, but that means we'd have to let her sleep in the bed with us for the rest of her life! We don't want to go there. I plan to try something tonight, taking her for a long walk before we go to bed, which should help. I'm afraid perseverance is the only answer, but there's a lot you can do to make things happen more quickly. I must confess in my first and second week of having my puppy I did start to wonder if I'd ever get a good nights sleep again! In your puppy's case, she's really been through a lot if she's been dumped and so presumably you don't know how stable her upbringing was, or whether she's already been uprooted once before, then uprooted again at a strange vets kennel... these factors can't have helped. What I did was get a large cardboard box (she's a big puppy) and put it by my side of the bed. Inside this box I obviously had old towels as bedding and a chew raw hide treat. I would let her go to sleep with my arm in her box so that she could feel my presence and be assured but if she bit it or chewed on it, I took it out... so she wasn't getting fuss ~ just comfort (it hurt my arm a bit though ~ the box was quite tall sided to stop her getting out, again, choose a size to suit you and your puppy). At first if she woke up after 2 - 3 hours I would take her out for a wee, but if she woke between or wouldn't settle I would persistently tell her to settle and put the chew in her mouth. I didn't see how old your pup was ~ Cindy was 7 weeks when she came home. She's now 13 weeks and sleeps happily through the night in her own cage well away from the bed but still in our room. If she does wake she has a chew and a ball on a rope which she plays with quite contentedly until we get up, and I put a little food and water in there in case she gets hungry in the night as being so young she is using variable energy amounts everyday and being hungry is not nice.. And she'll even allow me a little lie in at the week ends. Good luck and keep on in there ~ my Weim puppy is as obstinate as any breed and if we can get there I'm sure you can too ;-) Diana |
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"Allan Goodall" wrote in message ... [..] Can anyone give us suggestions, other than just persevering? I know if we let her out of her crate and let her sleep on the bed, she'd get us up to go outside and not much more than that, but that means we'd have to let her sleep in the bed with us for the rest of her life! We don't want to go there. I plan to try something tonight, taking her for a long walk before we go to bed, which should help. I'm afraid perseverance is the only answer, but there's a lot you can do to make things happen more quickly. I must confess in my first and second week of having my puppy I did start to wonder if I'd ever get a good nights sleep again! In your puppy's case, she's really been through a lot if she's been dumped and so presumably you don't know how stable her upbringing was, or whether she's already been uprooted once before, then uprooted again at a strange vets kennel... these factors can't have helped. What I did was get a large cardboard box (she's a big puppy) and put it by my side of the bed. Inside this box I obviously had old towels as bedding and a chew raw hide treat. I would let her go to sleep with my arm in her box so that she could feel my presence and be assured but if she bit it or chewed on it, I took it out... so she wasn't getting fuss ~ just comfort (it hurt my arm a bit though ~ the box was quite tall sided to stop her getting out, again, choose a size to suit you and your puppy). At first if she woke up after 2 - 3 hours I would take her out for a wee, but if she woke between or wouldn't settle I would persistently tell her to settle and put the chew in her mouth. I didn't see how old your pup was ~ Cindy was 7 weeks when she came home. She's now 13 weeks and sleeps happily through the night in her own cage well away from the bed but still in our room. If she does wake she has a chew and a ball on a rope which she plays with quite contentedly until we get up, and I put a little food and water in there in case she gets hungry in the night as being so young she is using variable energy amounts everyday and being hungry is not nice.. And she'll even allow me a little lie in at the week ends. Good luck and keep on in there ~ my Weim puppy is as obstinate as any breed and if we can get there I'm sure you can too ;-) Diana |
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"Allan Goodall" wrote in message ... [..] Can anyone give us suggestions, other than just persevering? I know if we let her out of her crate and let her sleep on the bed, she'd get us up to go outside and not much more than that, but that means we'd have to let her sleep in the bed with us for the rest of her life! We don't want to go there. I plan to try something tonight, taking her for a long walk before we go to bed, which should help. I'm afraid perseverance is the only answer, but there's a lot you can do to make things happen more quickly. I must confess in my first and second week of having my puppy I did start to wonder if I'd ever get a good nights sleep again! In your puppy's case, she's really been through a lot if she's been dumped and so presumably you don't know how stable her upbringing was, or whether she's already been uprooted once before, then uprooted again at a strange vets kennel... these factors can't have helped. What I did was get a large cardboard box (she's a big puppy) and put it by my side of the bed. Inside this box I obviously had old towels as bedding and a chew raw hide treat. I would let her go to sleep with my arm in her box so that she could feel my presence and be assured but if she bit it or chewed on it, I took it out... so she wasn't getting fuss ~ just comfort (it hurt my arm a bit though ~ the box was quite tall sided to stop her getting out, again, choose a size to suit you and your puppy). At first if she woke up after 2 - 3 hours I would take her out for a wee, but if she woke between or wouldn't settle I would persistently tell her to settle and put the chew in her mouth. I didn't see how old your pup was ~ Cindy was 7 weeks when she came home. She's now 13 weeks and sleeps happily through the night in her own cage well away from the bed but still in our room. If she does wake she has a chew and a ball on a rope which she plays with quite contentedly until we get up, and I put a little food and water in there in case she gets hungry in the night as being so young she is using variable energy amounts everyday and being hungry is not nice.. And she'll even allow me a little lie in at the week ends. Good luck and keep on in there ~ my Weim puppy is as obstinate as any breed and if we can get there I'm sure you can too ;-) Diana |
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:38:51 GMT, "Alpha" wrote:
So the fix is a simple piece of planning, do not feed her within 4 to 6 hours of bed time then supply her with a small Kong with yummy food in it, she will wake go for the Kong use up energy and then fall asleep, she will keep repeating this until she really tires and problem solved. Thank you, that's a good suggestion. Last night we fed her late so that she wouldn't wake us up hungry. She slept longer than she had before, but she still wanted to eat at one point in the night. The Kong idea is a good one! Any suggestions as to what kind of food to put in it? The dry food she eats is a bit small, and we haven't found a dog biscuit yet that she likes. Allan Allan Goodall http://www.hyperbear.com "The only normal people are the ones you don't know well!" - Joe Ancis |
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:38:51 GMT, "Alpha" wrote:
So the fix is a simple piece of planning, do not feed her within 4 to 6 hours of bed time then supply her with a small Kong with yummy food in it, she will wake go for the Kong use up energy and then fall asleep, she will keep repeating this until she really tires and problem solved. Thank you, that's a good suggestion. Last night we fed her late so that she wouldn't wake us up hungry. She slept longer than she had before, but she still wanted to eat at one point in the night. The Kong idea is a good one! Any suggestions as to what kind of food to put in it? The dry food she eats is a bit small, and we haven't found a dog biscuit yet that she likes. Allan Allan Goodall http://www.hyperbear.com "The only normal people are the ones you don't know well!" - Joe Ancis |
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:38:51 GMT, "Alpha" wrote:
So the fix is a simple piece of planning, do not feed her within 4 to 6 hours of bed time then supply her with a small Kong with yummy food in it, she will wake go for the Kong use up energy and then fall asleep, she will keep repeating this until she really tires and problem solved. Thank you, that's a good suggestion. Last night we fed her late so that she wouldn't wake us up hungry. She slept longer than she had before, but she still wanted to eat at one point in the night. The Kong idea is a good one! Any suggestions as to what kind of food to put in it? The dry food she eats is a bit small, and we haven't found a dog biscuit yet that she likes. Allan Allan Goodall http://www.hyperbear.com "The only normal people are the ones you don't know well!" - Joe Ancis |
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