Gisgo is just about 7 months old. Up until the last couple of weeks he has slept really well during the night, and even until well after 9am on weekends!
Recently he has been disturbed through the night. We get up and take him outside, where he usually has a little wee, and then put him back in his crate and then he takes an age to settle again (if at all). Last night, for example, he was awake just after 1 (out for a wee, back in crate, settled about 1:45), then again about 3:30 (out for a wee, back in crate, settled by about 4am)and then again around 5. This last time, my husband took him outside where he did have a poo (that's Gisgo, not my husband
) and then my husband stayed downstairs and they both slept on the sofa together !
Perhaps we need to ignore him and just let him go back to sleep eventually - but its hard when we are wondering if he needs a wee or a poo....I don't think there is any way we can be sure that he doesn't?
We give him his last meal around 5pm and then usually walk him around 7 when he does usually have a poo. he also goes out for his last wee around 11:30. Should we move his last meal a bit earlier in order to get all of his final poo of the day over and done by bed time? How early could we go without him ending up being really hungry?
Or is he just not comfy in his crate? We have vet bed in there, and he seems to scrape that into a corner and sleep on the plastic base.
He does love sleeping on my (new) leather sofa (not my idea!) and sometimes will sleep in the nice bed I bought for him. I could put the bed inside the crate, but not sure if that would help as he does not stay in it for long.
I am not ready to let him sleep outside of his crate as he would get up to so much trouble if he woke up and had the run of the sitting room.
I am wondering whether to put his crate into our bedroom - but that seems a shame after all the effort we put in when he was tiny getting him happy to sleep downstairs.
I am even looking into getting him some sort of "leather bed"....dread to think how much that might cost.
Anyone any other ideas?
Sorry for long message....and perhaps there is nothing for it but to ride this one out.....but I so tired and feel like I must do something!
Recently he has been disturbed through the night. We get up and take him outside, where he usually has a little wee, and then put him back in his crate and then he takes an age to settle again (if at all). Last night, for example, he was awake just after 1 (out for a wee, back in crate, settled about 1:45), then again about 3:30 (out for a wee, back in crate, settled by about 4am)and then again around 5. This last time, my husband took him outside where he did have a poo (that's Gisgo, not my husband
) and then my husband stayed downstairs and they both slept on the sofa together !Perhaps we need to ignore him and just let him go back to sleep eventually - but its hard when we are wondering if he needs a wee or a poo....I don't think there is any way we can be sure that he doesn't?
We give him his last meal around 5pm and then usually walk him around 7 when he does usually have a poo. he also goes out for his last wee around 11:30. Should we move his last meal a bit earlier in order to get all of his final poo of the day over and done by bed time? How early could we go without him ending up being really hungry?
Or is he just not comfy in his crate? We have vet bed in there, and he seems to scrape that into a corner and sleep on the plastic base.
He does love sleeping on my (new) leather sofa (not my idea!) and sometimes will sleep in the nice bed I bought for him. I could put the bed inside the crate, but not sure if that would help as he does not stay in it for long.
I am not ready to let him sleep outside of his crate as he would get up to so much trouble if he woke up and had the run of the sitting room.
I am wondering whether to put his crate into our bedroom - but that seems a shame after all the effort we put in when he was tiny getting him happy to sleep downstairs.
I am even looking into getting him some sort of "leather bed"....dread to think how much that might cost.
Anyone any other ideas?
Sorry for long message....and perhaps there is nothing for it but to ride this one out.....but I so tired and feel like I must do something!
