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Rescue dog crying at night

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Wombat8 · 20/12/2023 06:35

Hi all. I've had rescue dogs all my life and I've clearly been lucky as they've all slept through the night! We've had Ddog for 2 weeks. He's a St Bernard, 5 years old and came from a family who had to give him up due to a change in circumstances, so came from a good home according to the rescue centre. He's a fantastic dog in every other way and I'm experienced with giants. Issue is he just won't settle at night. He's had me up every hour on the hour for 2 weeks and I'm utterly exhausted. First few nights we took it in turns to sleep with him downstairs but he was still waking us up hourly for attention or to go outside. I've moved back to bed but his crying has continued. I don't know what to do with him. When he cries in the night, I go downstairs and let him out with minimal fuss and he often doesn't do his business, he just lies outside. I get him settled and go back to bed and within an hour the crying starts. I know that currently, he cries, I appear so in his mind his crying gets the result he wants , i.e me. Any advice please! Thanks

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Littletreefrog · 18/03/2025 22:06

Does he have a favourite place to lie during the day? Can he be allowed to choose his own sleeping place at night? We left our rescue to have free reign of the house at night time so he could decide where he wanted to be.

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