PUPPY NIGHTIME BARKING, HOW TO STOP IT?

[dillite]

My pup is now 12 weeks old, and in the last week has started attacking the bed/ jumping at it/ barking/ running around it and barking as soon as I get into it to go to sleep. Obviously it annoys the neighbours- I stay up with her every night till midnight, keeping busy, doing a short walk outside- can't go too far, DD is sleeping, making sure that there's been a wee/ poo before bed. Is there anything that I can do to stop this? She is fine during the day, and is always by my feet, but as soon as my feet get off the ground, all hell breaks loose. I really don't want to annoy my neighbours or wake dd up, which happens daily. I have made a sleeping area next to my bed but she ignores it still.

Oh dear, no idea how caps lock got there in the title.

Lift her up onto the bed?

Fuck no. No dogs are allowed on my bed. I already had to compromise on her being upstairs at all, so the bed is definitely out of bounds.

Sorry, that came off a bit too aggressive! Didn't mean to.

:( She wants her Mummy.

You could always sleep on the floor :)

I didn't take it as aggressive more 'shock'

What is she? other than a pain in the arse at night

She's a shih-poo. A yappy little thing.

Awwww what colour is she??

She could come and sleep on my bed :) You could have her back in the daytime!

She's all white. You are welcome to have her overnight if that stops my neighbours from banging on my walls.

What have you been doing when she starts this up? I'd hazard a guess that she has learnt that she gets your attention because you get back up, or tell her to shut up talk to her etc
Is she crate trained? If not, perhaps consider this. Either way, there will be a period of adjustment (and no sleep for you I'm afraid) Pick a few days, maybe the weekend. Per warn the neighbours with a sweetener of a bottle or flowers and explain you will be trying to sort it out. Then every time she does it, get up and without speaking or even looking at her, remove her from the room to somewhere safe and leave her in time out for 2 minutes. Then bring her back but wait until she is not barking. This might simply be when she draws breath between hollering a of outrage to start with
Once she realises it gets her nowhere, she should stop

Currently I just ignore her when she starts. No attention whatsoever.She has been removed from my room. Thing is, she stops as soon as I get up from bed to remove her from the room. And remains quiet whilst my feet are on the ground. It's me getting in bed that sets her off. I just feel that by me getting up to remove her is what she might see as a reward for her barking.

She is almost crate trained by day (it's taking a while, but we are getting there) but goes crazy in it by night- it doesn't fit in my room (thanks to the amazingly generous room sizes in this house), so instead I have created a bedspace for her where my bedside table was. Last night I locked her in my daughters room (after she got woken up and came to sleep in my bed), and she was quiet and slept the whole night.

No advice because thankfully Eric, our poodle shih tzu cross has always behaved at night (he has the run of downstairs and sleeps either in his bed or on the sofa) more to let you know that you are in for lots of love and laughter if your ddog is anything like Eric as he's an absolute minx and too clever for his own good.
This is Eric he's 9 months old. All puppies photos must be shown on the board you know, it's an unwritten rule

Here she is. She is definitely more of a 'tzu than a 'poo (apart from when it comes to eating poo, then she's definitely a poo). We do love her, my daughter and her are inseparable during the day. I am hoping her digestive system will get stronger in the next few weeks and will be able to move onto the treat based training- I started it, and she was responding very well, but the treats were giving her diarrhea, so the vet said to give it a few more weeks and then try again.

Eric is lovely! He is definitely much curlier than my girl. She only has curly-ish ears.

Our puppy started off ok but when we moved house he became a horrendous barker. He'd bark for an hour at bedtime then start up again at 4am. We ended up getting a bark collar, thinking it would be a short term thing til he stopped, but apparently he knows now when he's not wearing it, and when the batteries are run down so we need to either train him to stop it (not sure how!) or resign ourselves to him wearing it for life. Which is not ideal. The bark collar is very effective though.

No no no no no no!
DO NOT use a bark collar. They do nothing but mask the symptoms causing your puppy to bark, as previous poster has found they know when it's on, often they bark in spite of wearing it AND THEY ARE CRUEL.

Your tiny pup needs to learn what is expected and how to behave. It takes time and patience, not unkind aversives

For treat training, plain boiled chicken is tolerated by almost every pup even early on. It is what vets advise feeding a dog with a stomach upset after all. Or if using dried food, just portion some aside and use that. Remember to reduce meal amounts to compensate as the runs is very often simply caused by over feeding.
Start training pup during the day to settle in her bed, progressing slowly to her staying quietly there when you sit with your feet up on the bed. Throw treats into the bed periodically as a reward. Do this several times a day and also in the evening before bedtime so she gets used to doing this in the dark also

Oh she is such a cutie Eric is curly because he's been clipped I think which is a necessary because of his desire to be constantly filthy He dries quicker after a dunk in the tub when he's clipped short.
This is Eric at twelve weeks before he was clipped, as you can see he didn't have curls then either.

Oh no, I wouldn't use anything that would cause pain or discomfort, it just isn't for me. I did read about some spray that can be used on their faces that's non-toxic but they don't like the smell of. Apparently it works well for barking.

Thanks for the boiled chicken advice! I wasn't sure if it was OK to give her that yet. What about salmon? I do use dried food, but it's mixed with wet food, as she can't chew it. I usually mix the two together and leave it to soften for a bit. She has very few teeth and struggles with dried food by itself.

Eric was so hairy at 12 weeks!

They are both gorgeous!!

dilite - do you have the same aversion to her sleeping with DD? I'd do that or put her in DD's room again tonight (or another room) and see how it goes. She might not bark for your attention if she can't see/smell/hear you.

Salmon is a bit rich tbh, I'd stick to chicken at first.

I'd steer well clear of any sort of spray or physical corrective device too in all honestly. It will scare your pup and serve no purpose in teaching her to learn to settle down independently. She will simply learn to distrust and this will lead to far worse issues.
She might snuggle down in her bed more easily with a comforter/piece of clothing with your/your DD's scent on it?

Should clarify that the bark collar is just a spray of citronella under his neck - not delivering volts! I don't think that's cruel?

Well, tonight she's sleeping in dd's room on her sheepskin rug. I have kept her busy all afternoon/ evening, which wasn't hard as she was just going crazy in the garden whilst I was gardening. Just took her out for a wee and back there she went and is snoring already. Fingers crossed there will be no barking!

You know, speaking of worn clothes, I have a fabric laundry basket. She discovered that by jumping at it it will get squished. So what do you think she was doing? Sleeping in my dirty underwear/ dragging and chewing my undies all over the place.

Eliza, I have no idea whether that counts as cruel or not actually. I didn't know there are citronella collars, I've only heard of the electric shock ones, so assumed that's what you meant.

Citronella collars are just as cruel.

Dillite paws crossed it lasts. You might have to start calling it PuppysRoom Hopefully the same thing will happen if you put her in the utility room?! (kitchen/hall/bathroom)