My yorkie is an alarm clock!
 

Romeo wakes up when the sun rises. We go for a very late walk before we go to bed. He demands that I get up and take him out @ the crack of dawn. He barely lets out a drip of pee pee. I know he doesn't really have an urge to go potty. He developed this bad habit and it's killing me. I work very late and getting up this early is like the middle of the night for me. He won't leave me alone until I take him out. I nearly fell down my stairs one morning. Any suggestions? Please help!

i wish i could help. I know there are many who feel your pain.. Layla is the opposite.. i have to drag her out of her crate in the morning

I have an alarm clock too...It goes off between 5:03 and 5:18am....However, I need to be up at that time, so I'm grateful that Izzie hits me in the face...I also have Harlee who tells me when to go to bed !!! Who's in control I say !!!:eek::eek::eek: Not me...:confused:

Well, actually I have a built in alarm clock inside of me:p that does not allow me to sleep past 5:30-6am EVERY morning.

BUT.........

We used to have all four of our yorkies sleeping in bed with us. I finally decided that was a bit much, and thankfully it was no problem getting them adjusted to sleeping in their own beds on the floor in our room. Only Lexie (a bigger yorkie) is able to jump up on the bed, so she gets away with sleeping with us.
But, every morning without fail, at 4:30 am, I am awakened by one or more of the other three at the side of the bed wanting up. Every morning....the same time!!!! How do they know???? Since we get up during the week for work at 5:15am, I do let them up on the bed for those last 45 minutes. Once they are up there, they find their spot & go right back to sleep.

Abby and Daisy wake up every morning at 6:30 without fail. One or both of them will lick my face until I'm up!

I'm not sure how you can break your baby from getting up at the crack of dawn. Have you tried letting him sleep in his crate? Is that an option? Or maybe using black out shades, so that he doesn't know the sun is coming up?

i have black out shades and he cries in the crate. i don't know what to do.

Maximus wakes me up every morning too! Every now and then he wakes up super early like 4 am or 5 am and is ready to play and be up. I have a baby gate in the kitchen where he has his bed, toy box, and food, and I just get up and put him in there and go back to bed until my real alarm clock goes off at 5:45. Sometimes, he will fuss for a little bit but after a while you can hear him in there playing with his toys.

I feel for you. Little Dexter gets me up every morning between 3 and 3:15.. to go out potty, TJ gets up with him.. they go out potty and back to bed until 5 -5:30.. Then, I might as well get up.. because they won't stop until I do. Now Sandy is different.. she likes to sleep late. :) The boys aren't happy until she gets up too. She would gladly stay under the covers sleeping until 7 when my husband gets home.. :)

Mine also have alarm clocks. SInce Maya has had Cushing's disease (almost 2 years) she wakes me up at 1:30am and 3:30 am. I don't go to bed until 12 so I am constantly being woken up. I let Maya out at 1:30 then feed all 4 when they wake me up at 3:30am then I go back to sleep for a few hours. I am so tired all the time. Yesterday my 89 year old Dad says to me "Your eyes are sunken in like mine" I'm like that's great!! I may ask my vet for something to help Maya sleep. She really only wants toget up to eat all the time due to the Cushing's.

You know, my mom's pomeranian does this also. She cant seem to break her habit but she has been able to "control it". She takes her water and food away at 9pm and takes her out for a last potty break. This hasnt completely stopped her from waking my mom up at 3am-6am every morning but it has brought it down to maybe 2-3 times a week. She has tried putting the potty pads but she refuses to use it! So maybe taking him for a late night potty break and taking his food and water away might help some! Good Luck =]

thank god mine doesn't do this.

i started ignoring her whines as soon as i knew she was old enough to hold it. Now she won't bug me until she knows i'm awake.

the only thing i can tell you is to do everything in your power to ignore him. get some ear plugs, make him sleep in another room for a little while.

I guess I lucked out with Winston, he'll sleep in as long as we do. I do always take him out to potty right before bed...he sleeps thru the night...sometimes 10 hours...without the need to go outside. Now if only I could go so long without going potty...LOL!!!

Mine are alarm clocks,too ...wake me up everymorning around 6:30 sometimese earlier:eek:

I wish I could help ,but I have no ideas.. I get up at 415 everyday to go to work that is Mon. thru Fri. But Sat morning both mine start pestering by 430 if im not up yet. I would love a solution myself..

Do not feel bad. I do not get to sleep past 8:30 in the morning. Every morning, Jack is sitting next to me, looking at me like, "Hello? Hello in there? Can you please get up and take me out?" And if he isn't up then we both wake up the alarm. It's rather funny. I am glad I am getting up early with him. I hated that I slept until noon or one everyday. There was one day that he absolutely would not settle down at like 6am. I was upset that I had to get up 2 hours early to take him out but I did. I ended up tripping on flat cement. Needless to say, I took off quite a bit of skin on my foot, shin, and knee. After that, he learned to sleep those last 2 hours. I'm not really sure how to get the habit broke since I am not trying to break his. I would say, lengthen the time little by little every day before you get up. They will eventually figure out what days are work days and which are weekend days. Good luck.

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..
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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.

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. :animal36

Thanks Maya has Cushing's disease which makes her feel hungry all the time and she also is on a diuretic for heart failure but I only give her a pill in the morning. I think she is just restless as most time she just wants a treat not to go out. I am going to ask my vet if there is anything I can give her to help her sleep better. Maybe it is a pom thing!

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!!!

i would like to get his book.

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 :coffee_n_ Anyhoo, good luck!

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.

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?)

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.

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!