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08-11-2008, 11:38 AM | #16 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Birch Run, MI
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| My little heni penny used to wake up at 4am every am and want to play.. not pee, not eat, Play.. she used her basket to jump on the bed to bite our ears when the barks were ignored lol. I started waking Her up in the middle of the night when I went to the rest room and making her go out.. no more 4ams, but it's now 8am.. Mynu |
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08-12-2008, 09:12 AM | #17 |
Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Stillwater, OK, USA
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| My Bella (4 mo. now) is piddle pad trained, so I'm a little luckier in that respect, but she wakes up before me too. It started out with her not wanting to sleep in her own bed on the floor next to mine very early on, and she'd whine and cry for a long, long time. At first I gave up and put her in bed with me because I'm impatient, but then I realized I'd just have to suffer a few times until she got the hint that she wasn't going to be sleeping in my bed. It only took one night of real wailing for at least an hour, maybe more.....it felt like an eternity.....and one night of a shorter period of testing the waters for her to realize. She still whines for 30 sec.-1 min after I turn off the light, but that's it. She's just checking to make sure things haven't changed, but she gives up VERY quickly now. Same thing with waking up.... We started out potty training with using a crate at all times, even though at night she would use her pads and not have accidents. She started crying super early in the morning (2-3'ish a.m.) even though she'd had no water or food since 9:00 pm and had gone before she went to bed. I'd get up, take her to her pad--she'd go and we'd go back to bed. That got very old, very quickly!! Now, no more crate in the bedroom, just her bed again with pads in the corner. She used to whine at the bed when she heard me move around or heard my alarm clock go off and get "snoozed", but I would lay there until she stopped whining before I got up. That way she learned, whining = not getting what I want, and silence = getting what I want quicker. She still tests those waters and whines a bit, but she gives up quickly and lets me go back to sleep. If I wake up before my alarm clock goes off and am still and quiet, I can hear her playing in the floor--she still gets up before me, but she plays until I get up. I always make sure to have at least 3 of her toys in there: her favorite baby (plush puppy), her blue nylabone dental chew, and a rattle mouse (one she stole from my kitty--she likes to toss it and shake it!) She seems content to play by herself until she knows I'm awake, and then she lets me know she wants me to get up with her, but gives up quickly if I don't just yet. Good luck!!! Whatever you decide to try, it will take a TON of patience and perserverence. DON'T give in!! He'll get the idea eventually. Even if you have to wait for just a moment of silence to get up, don't get up while he's still barking/whining! Reward the good behavior (silence), and try as hard as you can to ignore him in the meantime. Don't move or even talk to him or anyone else in the room while he's whining/barking, so he can see that he gets no reaction from you with his behavior. If he's more than 4 months old, he should have the muscle control to be able to hold it a good 8 hours, and more than likely he just wants you to get up because he enjoys being with you. |
08-14-2008, 11:01 AM | #18 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2008 Location: Edmonton AB
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| Winston wakes at 5:30 every morning to pee. The only time he ever slept in was when he played until 3:00 am with his cousin ha ha. Now keep in mind we have him trained to go back to sleep after he pees. Is what we do is quickly carry him to his pee pad, keep most of the lights off, talk really quietly to him and when he's done peeing, we carry him back to his crate beside our bed and he goes back to bed until about 6:30. Unfortunately he won't sleep past 6:30 as that is his morning poop time and breakfast time.
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08-14-2008, 02:31 PM | #19 | |
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08-14-2008, 10:58 PM | #20 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: New York City
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| Caesar Millan says" never let your dog say when it's time for you to get out of bed". Can you try to ignore him?? I tell Keoki 1 more hour and he lays back down and he is basically on my schedule- good luck!!! |
08-15-2008, 05:47 PM | #21 |
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08-15-2008, 09:27 PM | #22 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Shawnee, Kansas, US
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| On the weekends, or whenever I want to sleep in, I will take Marley out to go potty around midnight. Sometimes later. I also try to avoid giving him water after 6pm (If he is acting thirsty, I will put an ice cube in his bowl). He normally starts to wimper around 5AM, but I know he does not need to go potty. When he starts to wimper I give a sharp "Shhhh!" or "No Marley!", and in less than a minute he understands that Mommy is not getting up and falls back asleep. I also avoid eye contact! Because if he sees my eyes he knows he has my attention!! However, if he continues to wimper for a few minutes I do take him out of his crate, and take him outside to go potty. I let him do his business, feed him breakfast... and then put him back in his crate, while I go back to bed. Marley and I have been known to sleep in until 11pm!!! I would suggest if you really want to sleep in, putting your puppy in another room while you sleep. Perhaps, when your puppy starts crying in the morning you can take him out to go potty, let him run around the yard for a bit and feed him some breakfast. Then place him in his create with a couple of toys in another room. If he does whine just remember that all of his needs are met, and that he is OK. I guess this will only work for those people who can go back to bed in the morning, and not so much for those people who are the "Once i'm up, I'm up!" type of person Anyhoo, good luck! |
08-29-2008, 06:34 PM | #23 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Boca Raton, FL, USA
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| Chanel used to be like that for the first 6 months...she would wake me up around 6am every morning. I was so annoyed with her for the longest time. Then I tried different tricks to get her to go back to sleep. I kept a bone right next to the night stand so if she woke up in the morning so early that gave her a bone to keep her mind off from barking and waking me up. She would just chew the bone for about 10-15 mins then go back to bed. They usually grow out of the habit of waiting up early. she now wakes up at 8am but its a lot better than 6am. |
08-29-2008, 10:23 PM | #24 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Athens, Greece
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| I dont know why but my yorkie keeps waking me up at 7:30 every morning to go to school. he starts growling and barking and if he sees im not waking up he starts licking...although im ok with all these i have 2 little sisters that cant stand it. (lol?)
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08-29-2008, 11:11 PM | #25 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Dallas, Texas
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| As soon as my husband hits the front door to leave for work, Kayla will come back into the bedroom and jump up on the bed and literally start pulling the cover off me. She will bite my fingers, my scalp, my neck. She can be one pain. So, of course I give in and get up. I drink coffee, read the paper and eat something and then we go back to bed and she sleeps on daddy's pillow, happy as a lark. Spoiled little brat. |
09-03-2008, 12:32 PM | #26 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northeast WI
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| Me too! I feel for you…I have the EXACT PROBLEM! Mariah is now 9 months old and we are having problems with her barking in the morning! Mariah is about 99% pee-pad trained. Originally our plan was to pee-pad train her because of the cold/snowy winter in WI and then in spring try to get her to go outside as well. For a variety of reasons including the fact that our neighbors have been breeding pit bulls that continuously come into our yard, as well as the fact that my children haven’t been as helpful as I would like with potty training, we have decided to continue with pee-pads only. Because originally we were going to have her go outside, we put her x-pen in our kitchen at first. When we realized that the pee-pads were going to be a permanent part of our life we decided to move Mariah’s x-pen out of the kitchen. Her x-pen is now in a great spot right in the center of our house. Unfortunately she is having a hard time with the move. She has always gone to bed really well in her x-pen and slept all night. But now she is waking up early and will NOT STOP BARKING! We make sure she has had a very active day, a clean pee-pad, fresh food/water and she goes into the pen on her own (coaxed by a treat). She goes to bed really well and sleeps all night long. My son sometimes gets home 11-midnight and my husband often goes to work at 4:45 am and she does not bark when she hears either of them. Unfortunately she IS waking up anywhere from 6:00 – 7:30 am and BARKS CONSTANTLY. On the weekend or on days off, I would love to sleep in - but her BARKING just doesn’t stop. We’ve tried ear plugs, etc. but nothing is helping! A couple of weeks ago she was BARKING at 6:00 am and she didn’t stop till 8:30 am when I finally gave up and got her). We’ve been ignoring her barking for weeks but ignoring her is NOT WORKING…it NEVER STOPS! I don’t trust her potty-training enough to bring her into bed with me all night long so that’s not an option. It also doesn’t matter what time we put her to bed…8:00 pm or midnight…she still keeps getting up early. Tonight I’m going to try to darken the room she is in and maybe put a sheet over her pen to block out light…maybe if she thinks it’s still night she will not get up. If that doesn’t work then I’ve got one more idea. We have a 7 yr old Bichon, Angel, that is definitely a “big sister” to Mariah. We have noticed that Mariah does not bark if Angel is in her kennel (they can see each other) or if they are loose in the house together. Angels sleeps with my daughter and I’m afraid as a last resort, I’m going to have to wake Angel up to “babysit” Mariah. Of course this means I’ll still have to get up and unfortunately I am one of those people that has a tough time falling back asleep. But I’m getting DESPERATE! I’m EXHAUSTED! Another option is to put Angel in her kennel at night…but I hate to do that too as she has always slept with one of the kids at night. If anyone has any other ideas…I’ll try anything. THANKS! |
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