I used to have this issue with Jackson. Well I guess kind of still do, it depends... he's actually really good when I take him with me to dogsit other dogs (over "strangers" homes) and will sleep thru the night in the bed with me. But forever, when visiting my dads house (where we've gone at LEAST once a week, usually more) since he was 9 weeks old, he went thru this "will not sleep" phase. There's two dogs and two cats over there, so I just assumed he thought he was missing something. We still to this day sleep downstairs (the master bedroom is downstairs, and so is my brothers room - mine 'used' to be upstairs). So because of Jackson, I sleep in my brothers bottom bunk, because he's such a PITA and won't sleep upstairs, LOL!! So that was my way of 'solving' it... but first and foremost, exercise, exercise, exercise. When I know I am sleeping at someone elses home with him, I totally wear him out first, that way he sleeps way better. |