If we put her to bed at around 9 pm, my puppy wakes up at around 1:30 am and we have to take her out to pee. Will it stop when she is older? Will she be able to sleep all night later in life?

Honey will still pee in her crate but only if I am gone to long. It really makes me mad but I know she can not hold it all day while Im at work plus I been working over time. I wanted to try the pads again but I dont want her tairing them up again

Honey did this at first but the she learned when it was time for me to get up. Her bed time is also at 9:00 and she knows it lol. She is now my alarm clock because she wakes me up at 4:45 ever moring to take her out and feed her.

Thank you for the good news. How old is Honey now?

Mugsy is 13 weeks - he goes to sleep about 9 and holds it most of the time until 5:30 am. I have had him for 4 weeks now, he started with 3 times a night and now sleeps thru the night.

Well, you guys, at least I feel like I am in good company. My 7 month old Yorkie, Will aka William,just does not get the potty training idea. He poops and pees all over himself at night and it doesn't bother him one bit. He goes to bed at 10:30 and is up at 5:30 and his bed is full of both! I think I shall try the rolled towel or blanket trick and see if it works. I know he can hold it. At times he last slept with me on the couch at night and can go 7 hours or so and has no accidents while sleeping with me.

My Jess didn't care about peeing where she slept. So I got a bigger crate that fit her bed and a FABRIC pee pad. Worked like a charm. Still sleeps that way 18 months later and she doesn't have to hold it at night if she doesn't want to. I guess being a gal if someone told me I couldn't pee all night long I would be so anxious I would have to pee more!

I have only one comment. Drink a good size glass of water, wAke up during the night yourself having to pee, see how long you last and how much discomfort you have? Why people do this especially to puppies I cannot fathom. My dogs and puppies have the option to use a wee wee pad OR I suck it up and get up take them out.

Most dogs begin to hold their urine through the night as they get older and learn they don't like wet/dirty pads, blankets, etc., in their den or nest. As they mature, they seem to begin to realize sleeping on or near wet or feces-smeared surfaces is not healthy for them. It seems to be a hereditary knowledge that more mature dogs begin to innately come to understand; so staying away from urine, feces, unhealthy sleeping areas in a dog not forced to live in it 24/7 will eventually begin to dictate their bowel behavior at night. And as they mature in brain/bladder/bowel capacity, they learn how to hold themselves to prevent having to live or sleep in or near wet or feces-covered surfaces when they know they will have a chance to relieve themselves outside of the enclosure in time. Sadly, dogs that never do live outside of confinement begin to accept living in, sleeping around urine-/feces-covered areas and accommodate more to it. But I think Mother Nature begins to instruct the mature dog how to keep himself dry and clean of bodily wastes and how to best do that for his own health's sake so the majority of them do learn how to hold themselves in time.

Aside from that aspect of it, healthy dogs just prefer to sleep rather than to take every chance there is to pee as they mature. Once they get older, the will even forego you're giving them the chance to go outside unless they really need to go. I never thought Tibbe would stop taking every single opportunity to go outside to play and/or pee, but he did and now, when it is very, very hot, cold or raining hard, he may only go outside 3 or 4 times in a 24 hour period, even though I ask him much more frequently if he wants to go outside.

Great question! When our Princess Sophie first came home, I had heard on YT that I would need to only give her enough room in her crate to lay down and turn around so I put a box inside the back of her crate and covered it with beach towels and this worked great. She never had an "accident" in her crate.

Good luck and please let us know how things work out!

Yes good point, but I just want to warn people that withholding water isn't the way to go either, not that you're suggesting that, but I've read others who have suggested it. Available water can actually aid in housebreaking because it allows the bladder to grow and stretch naturally so that the dog can gradually hold more.

So i also keep my pup in a crate at night and shes potty trained to go to the bathroom on this product i have called fresh patch -- its basically a small patch of grass that i keep in the crate so she can go to the bathroom and it even absorbs the smell of the urine its great! i replace it every other week with a new one that i get in the mail. this might help your pup potty train since dogs are attracted to natural grass !

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A fresh patch? Very interesting I have never heard of that. Is it real grass that you grow or buy somewhere and does your dog use this easier than using pads or newspaper?

I think it's real grass, but at $17.00 it's kind of expensive to replace every other week. Amazon.com: FRESH PATCH Disposable Dog Potty with...

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