Dog barking all night

[Cantsleepdontsleep]

It’s my dog.

Shes 7, we’ve had her since she was around 5months. She’s a rescue but no issues with her except we did find her harder to train as she isn’t greedy and doesn’t like treats (recently started liking cheese!) and, we assumed, because we got her a bit older than previous dogs.

She sleep downstairs and always been fine overnight, bar a few times where roomba seemed to reprogram itself and set off over night. Turning it off settled her.

over the last 4/5 nights she has barked continuously all night (maybe a few half
hour breaks). I sleep with ear plugs (snoring husband and I’m a light sleeper) and she’s keeping me up all night. I have no idea how the neighbours haven’t complained.

There is nothing wrong with her, she’s not hot, cold, she doesn’t want to go out, she has food and water. I think she just wants to come upstairs. My husband is adamantly against this (he has asthma and thinks she will make it worse). She does sleep in our room when on holiday and is fine and settles in her own bed. We haven’t been away recently and we don’t go away a lot. She doesn’t seem to be barking at anything (not like when the baby foxes were using our patio as a playground).

any ideas? I did spend one night on the sofa (really need to sleep but do t want to let her upstairs) which probably wasn’t helpful. She barked a lot less but did have a couple of moments.

if I go down and tell her off/try to identify an issue, she will continue barking when I come
back up. If I wake my husband and send him down, he will tell her off and then she is silent for about an hour. She is definitely ‘my dog’, although she loves attention from him too.

she isn’t getting cheese before bed all of a sudden 😁

so, I suppose
yanbu - she needs to learn she sleeps downstairs
yabu - just let her sleep upstairs

and please help!

Is she crate trained? Maybe she’d like being somewhere enclosed.

Or maybe you could try some white noise for her, or leave the radio on.

Is there anything going on outside that she might be hearing?

Also giving her a stern talking to in your cross voice might help if she shuts up for your DH!

They’re pack animals, they want to be with their pack. Let the dog upstairs.

If coming upstairs will stop it you need to do that because you are probably really disturbing your neighbours.

She's obviously sad and trying to tell you something, let her come upstairs
Also if your husband asthma was irritated by her it would be irritated downstairs too.
My husband and I both have asthma let the dogs sleep with us and are fine

Just make sure you hoover everyday. Tell your husband to pay extra attention to hoovering the bedroom if he's that worried.
Please listen to what your dog is telling you and don't leave her in distress, she is obviously trying to tell you something and needs comfort
Although you may not think it, she may be cold as well. It has been -5

In my past experience of 2 different dogs this is not a war I have ever won. I’ve always eventually given in and let them sleep upstairs in a crate.

Well you can’t let it continue as it’s disturbing for neighbours too. I’d just let the dog up or go down, because 5 nights disturbing everyone is unfair and I bet your neighbours are raging.

A dog is not going to affect somebody’s asthma unless they are allergic to dogs or a dog is a trigger, which I assume it isn’t otherwise it would be a trigger in the day as well.

A dog barking all night is really not acceptable and if coming upstairs fixes it then the dog needs to come upstairs.

Have you got a carbon monoxide detector?

Maybe she’s picking up on something like that and trying to warns you.

Take her to the vet and get her checked over, mine was fine but had a few unsettled nights and turned out she had a bulging disc and a tumor in her heart.

Pain meds worked wonders and DDog now snores obliviously through the night.

Just let the poor girl upstairs. The asthma argument is illogical, he lives with the dog, it's no different to her being in the living room with him in the daytime.

If he's fine when you're on holiday and having her in the same room stops the barking then it makes sense to let her come upstairs.

Both my adult son and I have asthma. My Son’s asthma was quite bad when we got our dog, but after a couple of months he was fine. Dog hair is everywhere when you have a dog, if DH’s asthma is fine downstairs with the dog, you would think he’d be ok with the dog upstairs. Our dog is nearly 6 years old and sleeps where he likes, if he comes upstairs he mainly sleeps on our bedroom floor or on the landing. It’s foxes mating season and our dog goes crazy if foxes are outside, they like sitting on our front lawn and the more he barks at them, they stay even longer.

mine barks in the night when she’s had a hair cut because she’s colder than normal I make sure to give extra blankets etc when this is the case. Sometimes I just think she misses us in the night - she would never be alone so long in the day time

I agree about the asthma but he is adamant. It’s his house too though (this is not what I say to him about the dog being allowed upstairs though, I tell him he’s being a dick). I wish the neighbours would say something as I think he’d then acquiesce. He doesn’t believe they can hear her.
shes not crate trained as she was a rescue and spent her life before us in kennels and then something stupid like 4days in a crate travelling to the uk. She was so traumatised when she arrived I’d never put her in a crate or kennel (I’ve crate trained before but never used kennels anyway).
her bed is in the living room with the fire and a smoke/carbon monoxide detector. She also has access to the kitchen which is significantly colder.
I just wish I knew why she’s suddenly started doing this - I think a vet trip might not be a bad idea.

We have lots of foxes outside - it’s rare to look out of the window and not see one (any time of day!). I wonder if the noise of them is what she is finding distressing? I haven’t heard them though.