I've had my greyhound 4 months now and he always slept through just pooing first thing and on his morning walk. Occasionally on a lunch walk .
His poos were sloppy so I've recently been giving him 1/4 tin of chappie am as well as forthglade (also as he lost a lot of weight).
I'm going to stop the chappie I think as he keeps waking for a poo (just bought 24 tins!!)
The issue is he is very nervous and quite hard to walk as he freezes a lot. He will not walk in-the dark so since night wakings I've been walking him at 4 and he will poo. He's become scared of our garden in the dark due to cats (does have massive prey drive but has just discovered them)
He often wakes up at this time (11) and won't go outside but is barking too! I push him outside (upstairs!). He won't poo. Just stands still forever. So I give up. This carries on at 1 and then usually at 3am he will poo. Again I am pushing him out . It's hell!
Hoping stopping the chappie will stop the pooing. He has lost 5kg since I adopted though. The chappie solved the sloppy poo too.
Why does he wake and bark to go out then won't go out? I shut him in the living room so he can't see the cats/foxes outside but he still wakes but won't go out without being forced .
He's just woken and we've done the rigmarole and now he's gone on his bed rather than sofa which ALWAYS means he will bark to go out again in an hour or so.
He's a gentle giant and gorgeous softy but there are more times I regret adopting him than not , it's just so hard and so tiring .