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10-06-2008, 12:53 AM | #1 |
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| 5 months old and still...... I need some advice/encouragement/a good night's sleep Here's the deal Don't ask me why, but I give the baby her dinner at between 5:00-6:00 p.m. everyday. (No I can't do it earlier) Anyway....a NORMAL yorkie would need to have a potty sometime after eating...right? Not Maya, the rest of her evening rolls on as usual, then it is bedtime, and like MAGIC, she has to use it at 2:23 AM (almost on the dot). Now this means either you get up in the middle of the night and go out with her (then she won't go back to sleep and barks anyway), or she uses it in the crate and you have a mess to clean up at 3: something in the morning. She does not shy away from pottying in the crate and being trapped in there with it. The crate does not make her HOLD it until I get up at 4:00 AM. Any suggestions? I have to work everyday, and her little body functions, and 5 months of this have me worn out,
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10-06-2008, 01:15 AM | #2 |
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| My almost 5-month puppy poops a few minutes to 5 hours after a meal. It varies. I used to place her in a crate but the hassle of waking up in the middle of my sleep just to let her out and do her thing (because she won't poop inside her crate) just drained me. So what I did after 2 weeks of such tiring routine, I bought a stainless 8-panel fence and placed her there with her bed and toys and a plastic weewee pad. The area it creates is quite big so she just do her business anywhere there (hopefully in the weewee pad). Even if she pees or poops in the floor, this setup is better because most of the time she doesn't step on her mess. She gets up from her bed to pee or poop then go back straight to bed and sleep some more. She wakes up when I wake up in the morning and that's when I clean up the mess she made.
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10-06-2008, 01:25 AM | #3 | |
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This was my previous solution....But mind has no computctions about DANCING on top of her poop at the gate and griding it well into the floor. She'd still screeeek to high heavens, even though she could go to her crate away from the poop.. Someone just tell me that as she grows older this 2:00 AM thing MIGHT go away altogether.
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10-06-2008, 01:26 AM | #4 |
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| But that is 9 dang hours after a meal.....weird
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10-06-2008, 01:36 AM | #5 |
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| On the dot??? Wow. I wish Mocha would do that.. I feed my dogs at 6/7PM, and they go potty almost immediately or 3/4 hours after. |
10-06-2008, 01:59 AM | #6 |
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| I wish I could give you some good advice, but I can't. I have a bulldog that at 4:30 am on the dot also will choose to do her business. Could she just wait 30 more minutes until we get up...no, she has to go then. We tried changing her dinner to later and it still does not work. The babies on the other hand, can hold it all night from 10-5 when I get them up.
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10-06-2008, 02:12 AM | #7 |
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| Is the crate big enough that she can go to the bathroom and still move away from it? If so, maybe you can block off part of it, so she can't. Otherwise, can you put up an xpen with a crate and pad in it, so the puppy could sleep in that area? The only other suggestion I have, I don't know if you take her for a nice long walk after her meal, that might help for her to go to the bathroom! Good luck!
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10-06-2008, 02:43 AM | #8 |
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| At one time, when I was feeding her at 8/9PM, Mocha went potty like, 12/1AM.. lol. I seriously have no idea. Dogs have short digestive tracks, so this boggles me abit. |
10-06-2008, 03:23 AM | #9 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Have you tried to take her for a little walk before you put her to bed at night? This has worked for me with all 3 of my yorkies if they have not gone potty after the last meal of the day.
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10-06-2008, 03:35 AM | #10 |
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| so you feed her and 9 hours later she poo's. How about feeding her at 9pm, maybe she will poo at 6am. Just an idea =)
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10-06-2008, 06:51 AM | #11 | |
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BTW, Harley usually gets up every morning around 5 to go to the bathroom (I do not have to be up until 6) and she used to play and make noise afterwards, now she goes back to sleep until I wake up. She is almost 9 months. So maybe your pup will grow out of not being able to go back to sleep after using the bathroom at 2 in the morning. | |
10-06-2008, 07:00 AM | #12 |
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| Here's my advice... Send her to live with me! LOL! ORRRR if you just have to keep her, then maybe try feeding her as usual and then taking her for a walk outside before bedtime. A 10 minute walk around the yard usually gets things going. Jamie usually poops at 7 in the AM and when I get off work at 5. I feed him after he goes out in the morning and then again after he goes out in the afternoon. Things are sooooo much easier now that he and I have worked out a schedule.
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10-06-2008, 02:14 PM | #13 |
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| Ok trying this starting tonight...thanks
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10-06-2008, 02:19 PM | #14 |
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| Yall I hate to say this, but I am scared to walk her. It is dark outside, I live alone, and Memphis is a bad place now. This lovely couple was walking their yorkie at 4:00 AM before going to work (both were engineers) the husband had a golf club in case a dog attacked. The robbers approached and I guess they did not believe they had no money on them. They killed the husband while the wife watched. I'm sorry. but I can't go out with Maya at night.
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10-07-2008, 12:57 AM | #15 |
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| OK I feed her a tiny bit before 8:00.....she used it in the crate at the same time of the morning. Started screaming a little before 3:00 AM/
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