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Hey all,
So my lovely little Toy Poodle is doing so great after a rough start and lots of change in living etc.
She is now 5 months old and pretty much potty trained and well behaved overall. The one thing I’d love to work on is her waking times. During the day she goes to the toilet every 1-2 hours, but can hold it longer if I’m out. She sleeps in her crate at night with the crate door open inside a playpen. We’re in a two bed apartment so I keep my bedroom door open so I can hear her.
I made the transition from crate with door closed to play pen about 2 weeks again and so far it’s gone great and no accidents.
Pretty much for the last 6 weeks she’s been sleeping through the night and waking up bang on 5:30 with a little whimper and then bursts out the door to go to the toilet when I let her out. We had one week where she slept till 6-6:30 before we made the transition to the pen. But then she went back to 5:30.
The 5:30 wake up may sound fine to many of you early birds but it’s wiping me out. If I try put her back in to bed after going to the toilet she’ll cry (and she never really cries at night). Unless I stay in the same room as her. I’m comfortable letting her cry if I know it’s just to be let out but the problem is waking up the rest of the house. Everyone’s so tired.
One last thing is regardless what time she goes to sleep 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11;30pm she’s awake at 5:30. So I know she can hold it for 8 hours at night.
We have curtains in the lounge where she sleeps (not total blackout), have tried covering her crate (before we changed to pen but it made no difference).
Any ideas to shift the wake up even slightly to 6/6:30 would massively help. Maybe it’s something she’ll grow out of, but it’s something I’d love to sort as we have a very cranky and sleepy household atm.
The other option, I wondered could I have her in my room with the pen, because when I lie on the sofa in the morning she doesn’t cry. My concern with this I don’t want to make a rod for my own back and not be able to change this. Im not wanting her to sleep in my bed/ room and be completely codependent on me as she’s already showing signs of separation anxiety. Plus I’m likely moving into a villa with stairs which she’s going to struggle with given her size. So would prefer she was happy and content in lounge/downstairs.
Sorry for long explanation ❤
So my lovely little Toy Poodle is doing so great after a rough start and lots of change in living etc.
She is now 5 months old and pretty much potty trained and well behaved overall. The one thing I’d love to work on is her waking times. During the day she goes to the toilet every 1-2 hours, but can hold it longer if I’m out. She sleeps in her crate at night with the crate door open inside a playpen. We’re in a two bed apartment so I keep my bedroom door open so I can hear her.
I made the transition from crate with door closed to play pen about 2 weeks again and so far it’s gone great and no accidents.
Pretty much for the last 6 weeks she’s been sleeping through the night and waking up bang on 5:30 with a little whimper and then bursts out the door to go to the toilet when I let her out. We had one week where she slept till 6-6:30 before we made the transition to the pen. But then she went back to 5:30.
The 5:30 wake up may sound fine to many of you early birds but it’s wiping me out. If I try put her back in to bed after going to the toilet she’ll cry (and she never really cries at night). Unless I stay in the same room as her. I’m comfortable letting her cry if I know it’s just to be let out but the problem is waking up the rest of the house. Everyone’s so tired.
One last thing is regardless what time she goes to sleep 9:30pm, 10:30pm, 11;30pm she’s awake at 5:30. So I know she can hold it for 8 hours at night.
We have curtains in the lounge where she sleeps (not total blackout), have tried covering her crate (before we changed to pen but it made no difference).
Any ideas to shift the wake up even slightly to 6/6:30 would massively help. Maybe it’s something she’ll grow out of, but it’s something I’d love to sort as we have a very cranky and sleepy household atm.
The other option, I wondered could I have her in my room with the pen, because when I lie on the sofa in the morning she doesn’t cry. My concern with this I don’t want to make a rod for my own back and not be able to change this. Im not wanting her to sleep in my bed/ room and be completely codependent on me as she’s already showing signs of separation anxiety. Plus I’m likely moving into a villa with stairs which she’s going to struggle with given her size. So would prefer she was happy and content in lounge/downstairs.
Sorry for long explanation ❤