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Originally Posted by Hermione  Hello, thanks for more replies!
Last week Jake did sleep in my bed, of course that worked, we both slept all night without potty breaks. As I said, I am just concerned about giving him separation anxiety and my relatives who will look after him while I’m away probably won’t allow him to sleep with them so I’m trying to figure out a way to make everyone happy and also make sure Jake is well. In February I had to put my other Yorkie to sleep, Jake and Lucy seed to play a lot with each other. Couple of weeks ago my partner had to leave. Jake and him spent a lot of time together in the night as my partner spent most of the time awake.
Jake was okay sleeping in the living room. It is the coolest and largest room in the house which is important as the summer here is very hot and humid. The room has two glass doors and I had a night light on for him. He slept all through the night, dry nappy, no poop either. In the morning he was happy and throwing his favourite toy in the air! I’m not fond of nappies on dogs either, so last night he was in the living room again but this time no nappy. We both slept all through the night, however, I found one little puddle of pee against the sofa, small poop on pee pad and another on the floor. Tonight I’m going to try the crate in my bedroom.
Next Monday m taking Jake to the vet for a check up. I don’t think he pees more than he used to, I just think his routine was messed up while my partner was up all night, but vet check is never a waste of time or money. |
Good for you. Try keeping a baby gate over the doors of the rooms you with him are in to make him have to go where he knows you can see him and don’t let him out of your vision. If you have to, temporarily crate him while you finish a task, can’t always watch him, praise him for ‘goooood crate!’ & whisk him outdoors. If a dog can know anytime he’s crated, he’ll immediately be taken out if his stay longer than 15 minutes, he has hope of soon getting to go and can eventually begin to start holding it, if he can.
Once he knows he can sleep very near you night after night, it should be a comfort to his natural instincts to pack sleep. And if he gets a totally clean ua plus other testing and vet says he has no pathology, ask him if it couldn’t be early aging causing night time pottying. Of be his need to gain closeness of his pack during the night. You never know, there could be other factors he can hear or smell, like a female in heat in the neighborhood or new neighbors who work days, do things around the house in the wee hours and with his superior hearing, he hears, gets anxious. And with that new bill of health, try a couple + months of housebreaking, restriction from all areas you aren’t in with gates, big boxes over doors, whatever it takes so he can’t sneak off. Then, routinely take him out once an hour for next two months, so he can establish a routine again and confine him to your bedroom during the night, with potty pad for him to use if he must go and you can’t manage more interruptions.
Sometimes the answers are not that satisfactory but with our baby, we accommodate where we must if we’re not expert trainers. But first, try sleeping with you, room gated off and see what 2 weeks brings. Course first thing, he goes potty mornings before you get to as his body likely older than yours at age 7 years. Others will likely also toss in their tips and somehow you can work through this for him.