Waking up at night to pee
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Tiggy recently decided that this was a good idea too.  She is 5 years old. She had a bout of gastro a couple of months ago and I left her out of her crate for 2 nights rather than risk a dog confined in a crate with diarrhoea if I didn't get to her in time. Somehow she discovered how to let her inner bark out ..... she'd never barked in her crate before. After 5 nights of getting up 3 or 4 times a night and taking Madam outside and waiting while she communed with the stars.  I cracked it! Water was taken up after dinner. I took her outside before bed, waited a goodly amount of time and then she went in her crate. If she barked in the few hours after she went to bed I just ignored her unless she barked repeatedly. If it was 5 or more hours later I got up, took her out, refused to acknowledge her, gave her no praise whether she did anything or not (she had been managing a tiny weeny pee to get a treat) and put her back in her crate with no comment. One night when she continued to bark every 10 minutes or so I came out and gave her a serve then went back to bed. Normally I wouldn't go with negative feedback but it was getting ridiculous and I was exhausted. She is also too smart for her own good and knows that if I say I'm not happy then I'm really not happy. It took about 5 nights of the above and then a couple of nights where I was so tired I didn't hear her although DH says she barked and he ignored her before we got back to the old routine. I've no idea why it took her till she was 5 years old to figure out that if she barked in her crate I'd come and let her out but once she did figure it out she thougt she was on a winner for companionship and playtime at night. Thank goodness we're back into routine because I'm going on holidays and having someone pet and house sit and it would really not be fair to ask them to get up 2 or 3 times a night to entertain her ladyship. It never ceases to amaze me how smart Tiggy is and how quick she is to figure out leverage points with the uprights  Good luck. It's a tough one because you don't want a dog sleeping in a puddle but you also don't want to encourage barking for attention. In the end I think you just have to know your dog and make a judgement call. |
| George has decided to use the bathroom as her pee area so we had to close the door. She is ok around the rest of the house. I wish she could sit on the toilet |
| She is still a baby but I think I would take a sample urine to make sure she doesn't have a UTI...Sometimes they show no symptoms. And I would be sure to walk her just before bed and you may have to get up a little earlier to walk her in the am...Not 3 am but maybe 5 am? She is still a very young dog... |
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