Barking at 5am everyday
 

Hi! My yorkie has a built in alarm clock and it's 5am...how do I get him to stop barking? He sleeps in the kitchen (in his bed) and I am in my bedroom, of course. He doesn't stop until someone comes in. I know he just wants to see someone. He gets so excited when someone walks in to greet him. I won't be able to travel with him unless I can get him to stop barking at 5am. Can anyone help?:confused:

Maybe crate training is in order? They make covers for crates too, like cloth ones. Perhaps black out blinds where yorkie sleeps or a shared room so be can rest while you are? How old is the puppy?

He will be 6 months old on the 22nd of September and yes it probably is time to crate. I was waiting until he could hold his pee most of the night. I thought about putting him in my room also so that he could see me because he seems to be such a clingy dog. He loves being around people.

Clingy dog?????? Yorkies want to be with their pack that is the type of dog they are. At 6 months they are still babies and need lots of cuddles, hugs, etc.

Yes.. a very clingy dog and he gets LOTS of love and cuddles...omgoodness...how can you NOT love them but I don't want to be woke up at 5am on Sat and Sundays...ugh!

Lol, I don't know at what age they can tell the difference between weekend and week days but I know of one that knows it's Sunday and doesn't even offer to get up.

I had a cat that would come and wake me up in the bed wanting to be feed and if I tried to play opossum, he would bite my nose........not hard but it sure got my attention.

My dogs wake me by 5:15 am every morning because they have to go potty every morning at 5:15 am. :eek: And I have to have my pups sleeping with me at night - always :)

To be honest...I think he is waking up to pee on his pee pee pad and he is thinking that he is alone. So he wants some company. I go and get him and lay with him on the couch and he goes right to sleep with me. He just wants company. Maybe he will grow out of this. :rolleyes:

Poor guy should be in the bedroom with you even if he is in a crate in the bedroom it's better then another room. He scared and alone poor guy.

All I know is Jackson would never stand for being in another room away from me -- he would bark too. Jackson will often sleep in on weekends with me until 10am or later lol. It's worth him being in my bed. ;) I love him being in my room though and I honestly can't imagine him not sleeping with me. He's been in my bed since 12 weeks old. No issues. In the beginning, we obviously were getting up in the middle of the night still but by 6 months old, no way, he was fully potty trained.

Well, in my defense, I really thought sleeping with a 2 pound dog was VERY dangerous! I have a teacup and I have never had a dog this little. He can't even jump off the bed. If he did he would be seriously hurt. I slept on the couch with him last night and he slept pretty much all night. I realize he wants company but it is not safe for him to be on my bed. I will figure something out. I love him to death and want whats best for him.

Sasha is a "clingy" dog. Her favorite place to be is in mine or Toni's arms. She always wants to be picked up and held. Max on the other hand is much more independent. We will come to me when I call and let me pick him up but after 5 seconds he wants down. But I have no doubt that they both look at me as the leader of the pack.

How about a soft crate next to the bed? Or setting up a little ex-pen area in your room so that you're close?

I NEVER anticipated Lilah sleeping in my bed. I co slept with my children actually until very recently and adding any size yorkie to that mix absolutely did not seem like a safe option. Our house is small and tightly shared and as we have cooperative rooms as it is Lilah wouldn't have had the option to be in a room alone (well unless she was in a bathroom I guess) but nonetheless, so not part of my plan and yes, as a safety concern.

We had her ex pen set up next to my bed with her dog house in it (it is a dual story with the bed below and her dining area atop) and that gave her a pee pad spot too during puppyhood. Retrospectively, I cannot believe my lack of firm consistency in some areas raising Lilah! Especially now that my family has a young puppy I have been participating in the rearing of for the last few months I get to remember every single mistake I made with Lilah! Lol. Anyhow, she didn't last long in her own bed and as far as training errors this is not one I regret. I enjoy her snuggles between my neck and shoulder or on my lap and she seems to get along okay. I was not pleased to come home one day and find my husband proudly standing over the 'new improved' and really freaking high bed frame he built :eek: and we have had to accommodate for that but still. Co sleeping has worked for us but I think I would crate train my next pup first and eventually allow her to 'graduate' to the bed.

A crate in the bedroom is a good idea. I'm plus sized so I don't feel comfortable putting my yorkies in my bed because I'm scared of rolling over on them and such. There really is no such thing as a teacup, the standard is not to exceed 7 pounds so from 0 to 7npounds it's just a standard yorkie.

You'd be surprised at how well they get out your way. Lol. I dogsit often for my friends 4lb yorkies and they curl up in the bed with me. I was terrified of smashing them (since I'm used to 18lb Jackson) but they're smart. They get out of the way. :)

My boys are on the same schedule! :D Breakfast and potty at about 5 am. Then they go back to bed, but they want all the humans up and in the same room. :p Togetherness.

I agree, they are smart and know how to get out of the way. I have to admit that when Max was small, I was happy that he chose to sleep in his xpen next to my bed. I was afraid that I would roll over on him.

Scottie used to wake every morning at 5am and let me know he was up, quite vocally! Casie on the other hand has always slept through the night and likes to sleep in a little. Both of them need to sleep in a spot where they can see me or they'll bark because they miss me. So, they each have their beds on the ground near my bed.

Note that Scottie is now 2.5 years and can sleep in late :) Yay for my weekends!!

The struggle is real! :D
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We crate ours with a pillow on the bottom.
He is 4 1/2 though.

My wife allowed him to sleep in the bed with her before we got married. We didn't have any trouble getting him used to the crate though

Walter is 5 months and sleeps in a crate in my room. He gets up at 5 during the week because I'm up but will sleep till 7-8 on the weekends as long as he sees me. We tried putting his crate in the family room when we first brought him home. He cried all night, so in our room he went and he's slept through the night every since.

I think having your dog in the same room with you helps them sleep better. They just want company after all.

If your dog is a teacup and you worry about squishing them, have a softpen in your bedroom and you will be able to accommodate a pee pad, bed, water in there.

I think tights curtains or blinds that keep night darkness a bit longer may last your Yorkie from barking as well ;)

I would be very careful about starting crate training this late. Most likely, he will absolutely hate it and my go nuts. Don't force him. None of my 4 could tolerate the tight confinement of a crate, they went crazy and hated it .

What about just putting an xpen in your bedroom, and when he wakes and uses his potty pad - bring him up on the bed...?

Yeah, you do have to be careful about tiny dogs on the bed. We have stairs ours can use to get up and down...do you have some?

Btw, there is no such thing as a "teacup yorkie" - and in fact I should tell you it's considered very taboo to use that term. The reason why is that it's just a term used by unscrupulous breeders to jack up their prices for their "special teacup yorkies" - when in fact there is no such thing, never has been. The standard for a yorkie is 7lbs or less, and there is no further size delineation from there. Stay away from any breeder using terms like "teacup, micro, mini" etcetera.

If the crate doesn't work in your room. Put the crate in your bed. It worked for me. He could see me, smell me and I puts my fingers in the holes and he would lick them. We slept real well. After he grew some and was potty trained, (outside,) one night I opened the door and out he came. Cuddling beside me and that was that.

Chewie got sick with pancreatitis- first really bad tummy issue. Before that her crate sleeping was perfect. She never wanted in there after that, until husband, who wears earplugs and an apnea monitor dragged her crate right next to our bed. She hasn't had one issue since. Every so often she gets to sleep with us. She was a year old on Halloween. I believe she was your pup's exact age when she started refusing.

We live in a split level. Bedrooms on the top floor. Xpen with bed, water, and toys on first floor. Fabian's alarm clock" is 4:30am. (He's four and a half months old.) We think he's up for the day when he gets out of bed to use the puppy pad. We feed him, then he plays for a while and falls asleep on our lap til about 7am. Since he goes to bed at 9:30, we think his sleeping for 7 hours on a different floor with no whining -- and consistently hitting the weewee pad -- is pretty awesome. Still, we'd love it if he could someday entertain himself until at least 6: we're a little sleep-deprived.

Couldn't agree more with everyone suggesting this baby is waking up and instinctively calling his pack to him, feeling isolated, lonely, bored and frustrated out there in the kitchen.

Dogs are pack animals and need instinctively to sleep with/on/near their packmates as they do naturally, for the warmth, comfort and security they need and just as important, to fulfill the pressure of the protective instincts of the pack they inherited. As bedtime approaches, the pack always draws together in the cuddle huddle, some sleeping back-to-back, bolder, warmer-natured dogs may be further out, so that they cover all quadrants and dogs rotate sleeping positions during the nightwatch for comfort and continuing security.