Morning, I say morning but I feel like I’ve already been up half a day and it’s lunch time!
We have a 14 week old lab pup who is so so good is so many ways and incredibly quiet. He really is good BUT insists on waking at 5.30am and barking/ growling/ shouting incessantly until we get up. We had been going to him as he’s only little but the last 10 days or so he hasn’t been straight out for a wee or even seems arsed to go out, some mornings wont even get out of his crate, but if u close it again and go back to bed he kicks off again.
Yes, 5:30am is still good for a pup his age, no I don’t wish to re-home him, we are now ignoring him until 6am, when an alarm goes off in his room (sleeps in dining room), I don’t want him in our room as prefer him to stay downstairs - the kids rooms have enough choke hazards on the floor….
I know he may well grow out of his 5.30am shouting but it’s hard when you are in the moment, my youngest is 9 so I’ve had the luxury of sleep for years & a month of 5:30am wakes ups is starting to take its toll.
We are in Cornwall for May half term which we always love & is always a fabulous week away, but already I’m dreading that when he starts at 5.30am we will have to go to him or wake the whole park, so it’s going to be a completely different experience.
Please don’t do the ‘oh you got a puppy what did you expect’ thing. I’m sure we all had moments after having our kids where we questioned our choices. I do not want to re-home him or anything I am just really really tired. Going to bed at 9pm trying to get enough sleep to function. I just need a moan. 50% people say ‘oh he’ll grow of it’ but then I chatted to man yesterday who still gets up with his 18 month old lab at 4.30am each morning, so the other 50% say ‘you’ve got an early riser there, you’ll never change him!’ And I feel completely overwhelmed…..and full of dread….
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Starbabe6 · 27/04/2022 07:07
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