I have been practically sleeping with one eye open for years. Rocky gets up several times at night and I have to lift him off the bed so he doesn't hurt himself getting down. Usually it's to get a drink of water and take a pee. Sometimes he wanders around in the dark for 15 minutes, goes into the bathroom, knocks over the wastebasket, chews on the kleenex, finds his way back to the bedroom, gets himself up on the little stepstool next to my bed and cries for me to pick him up. I am always amazed at how he does it since he really can't see. I keep a nightlight on in the kitchen to help him out but he pretty much finds his way around. When my elderly poodle, Elvira,
was like this a few years ago, she refused to get up on the bed and spent her time for the last couple of years under the bed on a heated blanket. He still wants to be up there so even though it can get exhausting, I wouldn't change it for the world. I adopted a poodle mix last year and I swear she is keeping him going - I think she reminds him of Elvira as they are so much alike in personality.