Puppy training help

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@obi-1

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.

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that’s how it was for our Lab…she LOVED her crate & had no problems going in it, she would go in it all on her own

now she has her own little spot in the living room with a pillow and all her toys, where she’ll stay all night

@jph102900

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.

how much are you playing with him after you guys get home work…maybe run him more in the evening so he is tired and sleeps thru the night better ?