# Puppy training help **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 26, 2008, 5:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/puppy-training-help/199825 "2008-09-26T05:59:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![jph102900](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jph102900/32/6049_2.png) [@jph102900](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jph102900)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/puppy-training-help/199825/7 "2008-09-26T06:58:19Z")
> [@TW/FS/FT: 2004 STi Aspen White](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-fs-ft-2004-sti-aspen-white/38046/10): > > We crate our dog at night. Your dog will get over it and will eventually prefer to be in the crate at night. Dogs thrive on routine. > > As a rule, a 4 month old puppy needs to go outside and do its business every 4 hours. A 5 month old can hold it for 5 hours. And so on… You won’t be able to sleep all night until the puppy is 7 or 8 months old. There’s really no getting around that. Thats good to know. My wife and I both work, but we are lucky that my mom can come over 2 times a day and let him out and play with him. At this point, I don’t mind getting up to let him out, it is the barking afterwards for 3 hours that drives me nuts. I am hesitant to go let him out when he barks because I don’t want to reward his barking with being let out of the crate. I don’t want him to think that if he barks, he will get to come out and play. It is just exteremely frustrating that before our week away from him, he was sleeping through the night, but now he wakes up at 3 and barks all night even after I let him go outside. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/puppy-training-help/199825)._