Hey! I know you just got a puppy and I was wondering(since I myself just got a puppy a few days ago) how do you get him to sleep through the night without waking you up constantly? I've been getting 2-4hrs of sleep each night if I'm lucky, I'm just so sleep deprived and I want him to sleep :( He's about 2months old and is trained to go to the bathroom outside so it just makes it worse. If I don't wake up for him, he will whine constantly and get louder each time. I just need some tips u-u
((Hey hagoro I’m gonna answer this publicly in case any of my followers have any suggestions. Also I’m writing you a novel I have done so much goddamn research))
SOOO CONGRATS YOU’VE GOTTEN AN PUPPY AND REALIZED WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS * v* jk I love my puppy but fuck he’s hard workFirst of all praise the gods your puppy knows and WANTS to pee outside. It may seem annoying now, but down the road it’ll save your ass time and frustration (Mine don’t give two shits where he shits).
The main thing to consider is if your puppy is whining to pee, or whining for attention or because of anxiety.
A puppy his age, newly separated from his parents and litter mates, is likely going to whining from anxiety. Letting him sleep in the room with you, hot water bottle, ticking clock, are all things that might relieve his anxiety. ((Obviously, if he’s sleeping in the same room and whining tho, he’s not gonna let you sleep much)). This whining and crying is SUPER DUPER common, especially at his age, and he’s scared that he’s been abandoned. New puppies are gonna whine. It’s annoying and loud and shrill but you can’t give in to him :U BE STRONG.BUT MAYBE he’s whining cause he wants attention. What is the sleeping arrangement like? Is he sleeping in a crate? With you? On a dog bed somewhere? It all changes logistics.
What do you do when he whines? Do you go to him? Pick him up? Take him outside? Talk to him? iGNORE HIM??? * v*
The last thing you want to do is praise this behaviour, as it just reinforces it. If he whines and gets attention, he will continue to whine to get what he wants. Ya gooooottta ignore the whining.
When I first brought my pup home, the first night, the first few nights, he screamed and shrieked and I thought I made the biggest mistake of my life getting a puppy, ngl. I got no sleep the first week. He was scared and wanted attention. I crate trained him right off the bat, as it provides and puppy-safe area for him to be whenever I’m not around as well, cause the precious little fucker likes to chew everything.
When he whined, I ignored him. When he was quiet, I gave him treats. Generally, this method of thinking is what you want to go with. Reward the behaviour you want, ignore or redirect that which you don’t. And I took steps to make him enjoy his crate. Making his bed/crate/wherever a safe and enjoyable place (feeding him in it, giving him treats when he goes there) may help to get him to ENJOY being in there. But eventually the periods of whining got shorter and shorter, and he (mostly) only shrieks now if he has to poop (He’s still an attention whore but I think that’s partially a relic of his breed).GENERALLY, having your puppy crate-trained will save you some more time in the long run, especially with house training, as puppies don’t generally like to potty where they sleep. Google it if you’re interested, there are 500 different tutorials. You’ll need to practice tough love with this one.If he’s sleeping on the floor and gets frustrated and scared because you’re not there, there’s not much you can do. Again, tough love. Don’t give into the whining. If you need to put him in a different room to sleep, just do it. You need your sanity and your sleep if you wanna be able to practice patience when training your puppy.
If you’re comfortable with him sleeping in the bed with you (and wanting him to for the rest of his adult life), then that is an option if he’s scared to be alone. Not the best option, but it IS there. This isn’t a good short term solution, because he’ll get used to it and then just start whining again the second you don’t let him on the bed with you.
I have a pug, I know how big he is going to get, and I PERSONALLY want him sleeping with me. I like cuddling him, so I let him sleep with me in the bed after we got him used to his crate. He DOES sleep a lot more soundly when he’s with me, and doesn’t wake up nearly as much. Every 3-5 hours he’ll wake me up, which isn’t ideal, but it’ll get better and better as he gets older and can hold his bladder. I’m not sure what kind of puppy you got, but if he’s smaller and you really want him with you, it might help to relieve that separation anxiety.
Buuuut then again maybe he’s whining cause he has to pee. For puppies, a general rule for how long in hours they are able to hold their bladder for is their age in months + 1 (So for your bubby, 3 hours). However, it’s important to keep in mind that, developmentally, puppies usually don’t have really good bladder control until about 12 weeks, at which point they start to be able to physically hold it instead of just going whenever they have to. SO THERE’S THAT. You can’t expect too much just yet, he’s still super young. 8 weeks is a wee infant. So if he wakes you up whining every few hours, it’s prolly cause he’s gotta tinkle. WOW OK SORRY FOR THE NOVEL I just had a lot of topics I wanted to cover.Basically the point is: Tough love, don’t give into the whining or you’re just rewarding it. He is young, he is scared, he will scream, and you’ll have to let him, as much as it hurts. Once he realizes screaming doesn’t do anything, he’ll start to taper off and you’ll have longer periods of quiet. Earplugs if you need them, put him in a different room if you need it. If you want him on the bed with you forever, it might tone down his fears. IT DOES GET BETTER I SWEAR. That’s what I needed to hear most when I first got Ozzy, I thought I was going nuts and was doing something wrong. This will pass, it is hard, IT IS REALLY HARD, but you’ll both get through it, and then you have a sweet little bubby to wake up to everyday ; v; <33One last tip: Look at youtube user kikopup’s stuff. She is AMAZING and does clicker training, and her videos laid the foundation for how I crate trained Ozzy and got him to be calm and quiet while in there. (I mean, he’s young and he still whines sometimes, but I just ignore it and it’s been constantly getting better).
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8I Holy shit. I mean, I usually feel fine, I just need to give myself a couple hours once I wake up. That's rough though, I'm sorry. What do you mean though by never feeling the same?