The puppy equivalent of Saturday morning cartoons

[Shelley]

Gosh, you all need to train your dogs tolerance, they get let out of the crate in the morning on your time, not theirs. If you have a puppy, that may need to pee in the middle of the night that is one thing, but they should be sleeping through the night quietly by 9 or 10 weeks unless they have a health issue.

I have multiple dogs, and my husband and I get up at different times for work. I get up at 5 am, get ready for work and leave, the crated dogs (even puppies) stay in their crates quietly, until my husband wakes up around 7-8:30 am. They get put to bed as early as 9 pm and as late as 1 am depending on my husbands work schedule. We don't feed right away when they are let out, so getting up early has no reward. Early crate training and teaching them tolerance, (tolerance to frustration and building impulse control) is essential to a dog's mental well being.

Here is a great article on the subject. https://pethelpful.com/dogs/Understa...tion-Tolerance

[barry581]

Gosh, you all need to train your dogs tolerance, they get let out of the crate in the morning on your time, not theirs. If you have a puppy, that may need to pee in the middle of the night that is one thing, but they should be sleeping through the night quietly by 9 or 10 weeks unless they have a health issue.

I have multiple dogs, and my husband and I get up at different times for work. I get up at 5 am, get ready for work and leave, the crated dogs (even puppies) stay in their crates quietly, until my husband wakes up around 7-8:30 am. They get put to bed as early as 9 pm and as late as 1 am depending on my husbands work schedule. We don't feed right away when they are let out, so getting up early has no reward. Early crate training and teaching them tolerance, (tolerance to frustration and building impulse control) is essential to a dog's mental well being.

Here is a great article on the subject. https://pethelpful.com/dogs/Understa...tion-Tolerance

A very good article!

[Amelia]

I guess we are very fortunate with Amber and her sleeping habits. We put her to bed about 10:15 and she sleeps until at least 7Am sometimes 7:30. We give her maybe 1/4 cup of her kibble after her last evening potty time and that keeps her satisfied. My husband and I have had a floor fan we run at night since he has tinnitus so it blocks a lot of outside noises she might normally hear.

[labsnewfy]

I know we should ignore this behavior but Bailey did it when he was a baby and we had to get up to let him out in case he did have to go potty, not just look around to see who and what was up at the crack of dawn or running around the yard wanting to play. He did eventually grow out of this until he got older. I get up with my kids now especailly Sarah as she has been loosing control of her bowls so she has to go out, if Sarah or Ginger are not up then i tell my cats to go back to sleep it is too early. Saturday morning my girls didn't get up until 7 this morning it was 6 again. While we are up I go ahead and feed them.

The bright side I get to listen to the birds morning song, watch the rabbits and see if I can catch the female stray cat with babies.