Puppy help!

[emma123456]

Our pup is now 16 weeks old. Shes a working lab. Absolutely gorgeous and very loving.

we are struggling at night. She’s happy to go into her crate around 11pm but we only get to around 4 before she barks. The barking continues on and off until one of us finally gives up on sleep and goes down. If we go
down she is wide awake and ready for the day to start. Even if we make no noise or fuss and try to just get her out for a wee, she is running around and delighted to see us. We don’t fuss her and try to
keep it quiet.

we ve had a few nights where she’s hasn’t woken and a few nights where she has barked a little and resettled but the last few nights have just got worse…

we are so tired. Any ideas?

she’s fed 7am, 1pm and 7pm

she has 2 walks, am and pm and access to the garden whenever she wants out. She goes out for a last wee just before we put her to bed.

crate is cozy with a blanket over the top. She has a couple of toys in there too.

she’s a chewer so not keen to let her free roam or come to bed with me.

Any idea? Any hope that this will settle?

We have an almost sixteen week working lab pup.
she is walked once a day for half an hour and also has fifteen minutes running around off lead in a local enclosed dog run.
we feed her 7 am , 12.30, 5 and she has a light snack about 7. We settle her in her crate by 10pm and she sleeps right through until 7am in fact she was still asleep at 8am this morning think the heating had come on warmer.
we cover her crate in blankets like youand leave a night light on as well as a radio (lbc ) on a timer for an hour.
the only difference I can see is an little supper and the nightlight and radio (our house is very noisy!) plus bedtime an hour earlier - perhaps she is overtired?

sorry this may not be any help. She does my head in in other ways especially refusing to poo outside first thing and barking at birds 😆

@emma123456 I think it can take some puppies longer to sleep through.
We had the same when our dog was a puppy. He settled without a problem but woke 4-5 am. Like you we kept things really low key. There’s no way he would have gone back in his crate so I spent a few weeks lying on his dog bed whilst he bounced around the room. Eventually he would calm down and go back to sleep as would I. It was exhausting but didn’t last too long. As his bladder capacity increased he slept for longer and we now have to wake him up.
Perhaps he is waking hungry? We always give a snack at bedtime (frozen kong with a bit of mushed kibble inside).

I have an almost 2 year old dog and when I got him at 12 weeks, id say for the first month he had me up between 5 and 5.30am. Luckily i had taken some time off work when i got him and just took him out to do his business then napped on the couch with him for a bit. I feel like it didn't last too long though.

Hes now the laziest dog I've ever met when it comes to getting up in the morning. I honestly think he'd stay in bed till noon if I didn't wake him.

Could you consider crating her in your bedroom? I did this once on holiday with my old dog in desperation and it worked well as she decided to get up when we did. After that she always had a bed in the bedroom.
I have a 11 month old puppy who has been sleeping in my room for a month or so and she's happier for it and gets up about 7. She's not 100 percent on the chewing front but reliable enough to go with it.

Let him in bed with you. It's so nice ❤️

Is she alone at night? Dogs usually prefer to sleep with their people, so i would crate her in your bedroom.

Morning…. So far we’ve been up at 330 and she’s up again, from 530. She went for a wee but I’m not sure that’s why she’s up… she wants to play. Husband is with her downstairs but hasn’t taken her out of the crate and she’s quiet now.

Find the Pupoy Survival thread and post on there. You’ll get lots of help and support.

Puppies aren’t easy!

I think I was only just starting to stop getting mine up for a wee in the early hours at this age. I struggled as he seemed to want/need more exercise than he was allowed for his age, which maybe similar to you. We did one last ‘big play’ and practiced some of the training from puppy classes before bed, then total dark and quiet. I think if he squeaked in the night after that I used to take him for a quiet wee then scatter tiny bits of food in his crate so he was snuffling about looking for it whilst I left. Good luck!

Hi, I have an 8mo working lab and he used to wake me fairly earlyish at that age for a wee. I’d take him out and then lie on the sofa and he’d usually just get on the sofa with me and go back to sleep. I relented and let him in my bed from 5 months and it was the best decision in honesty, it’s not for everyone and I did deliberate over it for a while but we both sleep so much better for it. We didn’t wake up until 8.30 this morning it was bliss! I can’t remember the last time he had me up in the night. It does get easier but the sleep deprivation at the start is tough!

Honestly, this is all very normal for a puppy. Ours was probably 6 months old before he reliably slept through the night, but even then he still occasionally needed to go out for a wee. He was also regularly up and wake for the day at 6am 😫

He’s 7 now and DH had to practically shove him out of bed at 11am the other day - it doesn’t last!