Puppy sleeping

[onemoresmartie]

Hi all I have a 10 week old cockerpoo puppy he is so lovely and he has settled in really well. We are trying to crate train him at the moment, he's doing well throughout the night but I was up at 4.40am today for the day and it's now 9.20pm I am ready for bed but pup is currently fast asleep on the living room carpet.

Does anyone have any tips or advice for the early days please?

A sleep deprived puppy mum 🥱

Puppies do wake up early but 4.40am is a bit extreme - if he's asking to go to the toilet then I would take him out, let him do his business then settle him back to sleep again. He will probably resist but if you just reassure him and don't give in to his demands to play he will eventually learn to go back to sleep.

Is his crate in your room/are you nearby to provide reassurance if he does wake up?

Just know that it gets better. I think sleep deprivation is the thing that was most unexpected when I got a puppy. I was up from around 5.30 most days in the first couple months (and a couple times during the night). Luckily for me it was summer so I used to sit out in the garden with a cuppa and watch her sniff around. Eventually started really enjoying that peaceful time, just us, while the world was still asleep. I couldn't keep my eyes open past 8.30pm! Now at 19 months old, she loves a good snooze. From 6 months old she started sleeping in until a more sociable time of 7am.

If you're getting up at 4.40 I would try taking pup to the toilet and then putting them back to bed for an hour and just leaving them if you can. If you can leave them in their bed for slightly longer every couple weeks they gradually get used to it. But 10 weeks is very young so I would increase it very gradually.

I got my puppy at 8 weeks. Bed at 10.00, then I got up at 2.00 for the first week for him to do the necessary, then got up 15 minutes later every three days until he was sleeping through to 6.00. I would try that, effectively starting again with his sleep training