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Need advice - I am so tired its unbelievable!

(Toby is 11 weeks old)

We have Toby crated beside the bed so that when he needs to pee I can take him downstairs to the puppy pad.

He cries when he needs out, and the first night he held all night, and the second night it was a 4am pee trip.

Now (2 weeks on) it is 3 times from about 11pm to 6am. I have a puppy pad in the crate as well, and he will go on this if I dont hear him up, but then he still cries. So everytime he cries I take him downstairs, and he does a pee. Sometimes its only been a hour since the last time he went. I think it is an attention thing, and that he just wants out.

So I dont know if I should let him out for a pee everytime he cries, or whether that is making him cry more cos he knows he will get out. Then he cries when he is put back in again!

I am thinking of penning him in the kitchen now so we can get a bit of sleep! He knows to go on the pads when he is penned in.

Also at the weekend, we take him into bed from about 5am and he sleeps right through to about 12 noon, which makes me think even more that its for attention and not because he does actually need to go pee. But the thing is, if he actually is crying to get out to pee I dont want to ignore him.