Sleep deprived

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Hi All. Our five month old Tibetan Terrier has always slept in our living room in a crate and pen arrangement with the crate door open. She has recently started to wake in the night. We started letting her out for a wee but I think it has now just become a habit. Last night she had me up at 11.30pm and again at 4am. The second time, she just wanted to play. We have tried ignoring her but it went from barking to howling and we have neighbours! We have also tried letting her have the run of the room but with no joy. Does anyone have any tips? Boyfriend is threatening to move out!! She gets at least two walks every day and we do mini training sessions but it doesn't seem to be enough.
Please help

I'm sorry I have no advice I'm afraid but just wanted to send you best wishes. We have a TT too and they are such gorgeous dogs. Really hope you get it sorted, I think you just have to persevere with the ignoring to be honest. Good luck!

What time is her last walk? You might have to start going to bed a little later too, just for a while. You say she got you up at 11.30pm so assuming you went to bed at 10.30 ish or earlier? It's quite a long time for a pup to go overnight, particularly given her breed.

Personally I would take her for a good long walk at about 6ish if possible then again at around 10pm, for about 20 mins then you could give her a peanut butter frozen kong in the garden and that would keep her busy for another half an hour at least, then last wee and bed.

She's a high energy breed so she's going to need more exercise and mental stimulation than a more laid back type

Thank you so much for the replies. I will take all the advice I can get.
We normally take her for a walk somewhere between 7-8pm, she gets serious zoomies around 9pm and takes herself off to bed any time from 9.30pm. Its hard to keep her up past then. We tend to go to bed any time up until 11pm.
I will definitely try taking her out earlier in the evening and again before bed and I already have a new kong quest in the freezer.
I was also considering just letting her sleep in my room but that feels like giving up.

I slept next to my pup when she was little rather than having her in my room. How long is she left for during the day? Is she bored and missing you?

I would definitely just let her sleep in your room! I've done that with all of mine and now they're older they sleep happily in the kitchen, although they do have each other for company.

It will get easier as she gets older too. All pups are a pain in the arse at this age!

We ended up bringing our ddog up to our room after 9 ish months of interrupted sleep. He is now 2 1/2 and has a bed in our room, sleeps from 10 - 6:30 ish without a peep.

So she had lots of walks yesterday, including one at 10pm. We gave her a frozen kong and attempted to get her upstairs to sleep in our room at around 11pm. At midnight, I gave up. She was trying to get in the wardrobes, she jumped on my head, she barked and wanted to get back downstairs. Despite everything, she woke up again at 01:30. Then refused to get out of bed this morning.

Hi Wolfiefan, I slept next to her on the sofa when she was first with us and have done occasionally recently but I don't know whether that is helping or not, i.e. reinforcing bad behaviour - although I am more likely to get undisturbed sleep if I do it.
She has been getting upset when I leave her so for the last couple of weeks I have tried to make sure she isn't left alone, or at least not for very long and I am trying to get her comfortable with being alone.

First day at daycare today so I will see if that wears her out!

My pup has until very recently slept in a crate in the kitchen because like you have found if I bought him into the bedroom he went crazy trying to eat everything. It’s only now at 1 year of age does he settle sleeping in other places outside of the crate. As a young dog he occasionally used to have episodes where he would wake up in the early hours and bark and then want to play. I just got up, let him out of the crate for a toilet break and guided him back into the crate when he wanted to play. No noise or talking to him and after repeating this he got the message again that it was bed time until we got up (although we usually wake around 5am for work).

Could outside noise or light be encouraging her to wake. To be honest my dog wakes around 3am every night for a preening session whether he is in the crate or sleeping elsewhere but I just didn’t ignore him and after he has cleaned himself he settles back to sleep.