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    no,he wants out of his cage and company,I let him bark but he starts at 5am and goes non stop until I go down and let him out ,I open the back door for him to go out and he just sits down next to me and looks up,I can't leave him out,he's still only 6 months old and I do have a sheet over the cage but I guess the light goes thru in the morning,as soon as I let him out he curls by my feet and is quiet and he goes to sleep around 11pm-fullsizerender-12-jpg
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    Packer is training you well, lol!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jules View Post
    As soon as packer sees daylight ,he has to wake the whole family at about 5 am every morning,We try to ignore but he will go on non stop for hoursAttachment 3043he looks cute,but don't let that fool you,we have an appointment on saturday with a professional trainer who specializes in labs for service dogs and other types of obediance
    I am having the same issue with my almost 4 month old and I am worried we are just creating a habit!!! He consistently wakes up at 5am!!! And it doesnt matter if he is crated in my room or the living room, he wakes up and is ready for the day. I want to let him "bark it out" but hate than I am waking the whole family up to do this. So frustrating!

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    i leave the cage open now and the barking has stopped at 5 am and as far as that training,they actually take the dog from you for 2 weeks ,and the dog comes back certified for apartment dwellings and you can go further,after the 2 weeks they come to your house and continue with you and the dog for an additional week-img_9234-jpg
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    Sassy is an early morning riser, but I think it’s mostly because she can’t hold her bladder as long as Cookie or Chloe. In an ideal world, I would take her out to pee and put her back to bed when she gets up before us, but in the real world, if we take her out, Cookie (who is sleeping in another room) hears us and starts fussing to get out, and then it turns into a circus trying to get everyone out and back to bed without waking up the kids (each of whom has a puppy crated in their room).

    So what we end up doing is taking all the dogs out when Sass fusses, and then locking them all downstairs (they are fine gated into the kitchen and family room) while we go back to bed until whatever time we were planning on getting up anyway. Not feeding them that early has helped a bit - she occasionally will sleep longer, but I really do think it’s just that she needs to pee. The pups are only 5.5 months now, so I’m hoping that as she gets older her bladder control will get better - I suspect Cookie could hold it just as long as her mother if left to her own devices, but Sass is just not there yet.
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    Here's a wild guess. Oban didn't bark but he was very energetic throughout the day. Until we started giving him the freedom of the house overnight at 5.5 months old. He'd been gated in the kitchen till then. He slept on his bed on the floor beside me all night, never roamed or got into mischief and was much calmer during the day. Your concern is not the same but I wonder if trying what seems to be counter intutitive, more freedom and trust, might help in your situation too? I didn't try this till he'd been clean overnight for a month.
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    my problem now is he has the zoomies in the house-img_9234-jpg
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    the freedom of leaving the cage open has stopped all the 5am wake up calls,he turned 1 yesterday christmas eve and he has matured ,even when he was barking at 5am to get out of the cage,i would open the door to let him out he wouldn't go so it wasn't a matter of going to the bathroom,i think it was lonleyness,-fullsizerender-1-jpg
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    Yep. Sounds like he just wanted to be with you.

    Hoku was never a barker, and is really very quiet in her crate. But occasionally she'll whimper very very quietly at around 4:30 or so, and if we let her out she'll just come up into bed and go back to sleep. It works for us, so it's what we do. Glad your situation has sorted out a bit. They do mature!
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    Simple (and I won't charge you $1200, though if you'd like to make a donation... lol). You do not give in to the barking. He should never get what he wants by barking!!!

    Mine are crated in my garage, but they do hear the neighbor dogs or otherwise have pretty good internal clocks and probably see daylight thru the cracks in the garage door tracks. Someone (who shall remain nameless) started woofing this am. I was not ready to get up since I'm up ~2-3x in the night because I have puppies. I'm not in the best mood at 6am.... I tell them to KNOCK IT OFF! or QUIET! I do not answer to my dogs' demands-- and eventually they do learn they aren't getting what they want by being obnoxious. Now that said, I know my dogs' voices so it is good to know what is a "need" vs a "want/ demand" bark.

    I think part of this pup's problem here is that I was doing a fair amount of training w/ her, and once the puppies arrived, she's taken a back seat and is bored. So to the OP, please consider a group obedience class or something to give him a job. He's bored, I'll bet you anything... Anne
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