Where does your baby sleep at night????

[tfc3rid]

I agree... This is a great thread... I'm very interested in how everyone deals with sleeping arrangements!

[kb_jesee]

Keena sleeps with me SOMETIMES, but usually they stay in a gated area in our kitchen they are 7 months old. Bella always is in the kitchen, but other than that, we live out in the country and theres no fences and lots of coyotes around here so they are mainly inside unless I take them out on a walk about once a day!

[klogan]

Stomper (funny name for a little yorkie huh?!) sleeps in his crate at night. He is now 12 weeks old. We get up once at 4:30 AM to let him go pottie on the pads. We don't let Stomper eat or drink after 7 PM and always feed him at the same time every day. This helps us monitor when he will go pottie - he pee all day long, but goes poop no more than 3 times. Give that a try...it might help! Make sure you are not giving your puppy too much food. It is not normal for them to pottie on their beds, so he might be eating too much food. Good luck!

[LIL MIS' MAGIC]

Our two little ones sleep in the living room where they choose do that night...it is almost always differnt, they each have separate beds but we let them decide...we have a bed set up on the fireplace with easy access to up and down and they love sleeping there...we usually have to take them once or twice a night to potty, but are trying something new lately...we have read that if you take up their food a hour and 1/2 before bed they tend to sleep the whole night without accident...we are hopefully that this will help all to get more sleep...we don't to the grate or playpen thing...they have the living room and kitchen to play in while I am at school or work (we have a baby gate for the rest of the house)...they are learning to hold it or use their pads while aways...when they we little we did have them in just one area but as they are growning they get more free space....

[Bitsy]

My Sophie must be the naughtiest little puppy on this site!!

She is in a crate at night and when she first came home I put a nice little bed in one end and the wee pad underneath it all with enough area for her to do her business there. Well, the little stinker (literally) would go right in her bed! Yuck! And, she had, um, digestive problems at first, so that was not really very pleasant.

Now I have taken the bed out (got tired of washing it everyday) and just keep the wee pad in there. Once in a while I'll put the bed back, or a blanket, or a t-shirt or something else to see how she does, but more times than not she just poos where she wants too and doesn't care if it is on her bed.

Does anyone else have a Yorkie that does this? She is going to be extremely hard to house train I think. She will go anywhere, even if the wee pad is just as close.

[Connie]

Maddie sleeps in her crate which is in the same room as me. I've let her sleep with me a couple of times, but I am so scared I'll roll over on her during the night and hurt her, that I just feel better with her in her crate and she seems to like it. I just took down the playpen as Maddie has figured out how to jump out of it! LOL In her crate, she only pooped in it the first night she was in there...since then, she sleeps all night with no accidents. My daughter has Maddie's brother and he is a little pill. He wakes my daughter at least twice during the night! She's hoping he'll grow out of that habit!

[gyesso]

Buddy & Jake sleep with me since I am alone very often. Buddy has the foot of the bed and Jake is under the covers next to me. Jake is the baby. When my husband is home they sleep in their room (sometime). When his daughter is here they like to sleep with her. I started them both off in a crate but that didn't last for too long.

[Kota]

Kota has to be between me and my husband. Right up against one of us. and if that isn't enough he likes to be under some of the covers. I think he thinks he's human We also have one of our smaller suitcases up against the bed so he can get up. Or else he just sits there and barks. he is such a kid!
Sonya

[Maddie-Rudy-Mom]

I am like Toto's mom, Maddie and Rudy let me sleep with them in MY bed. I have a crate but either have ever slept in it...........Cindy

[YorkieLover9]

My yorkie Beau will be 14 weeks old this Sunday, I would love for him to sleep with me (he weighs between 2 - 2 1/2 lbs). I'm not afraid I'll roll over on him as I'm a light sleeper that barely moves, my concern is everytime I put him on my bed and try to get him to lay down and sleep, all he does is wander around the bed sniffing and going to the edge and looking down which scares me as I'm afraid he'll fall off.

How do I get him to settle down and want to curl up with me and stop pacing and sniffing and going to the edge of the bed?

Also, how do I post his pic on here so that when I reply to threads, you guys can see his picture?

Thank you.

[kandee]

Our two sleep in a pair of beds which look like giant slippers, in front of a radiator in the kitchen, but they usually cuddle together in one of them.
(could probably fit another two in there with them as well.

[schatzie]

Schatzie as a little puppy began sleeping in her playpen. Then she grew and learned how to escape. Now she shares my pillow and my husband squeezes in where he can, hahahaha

Annabelle is independant so she sleeps usually in the living room or walks into her kennel on her own and sleeps.

Sleeping with Schatzie at night is my favorite "bonding" time with her. We lie there together and she licks my hand as if she's grooming me, ha ha and I talk sweet nothings to her. It's a routine and I love it, wouldn't trade it for the world.

Now, when I adopt my new Yorkie the sleeping arrangements could get interesting. Might have to buy a bigger bed, ahhaha

[StewiesMom]

Stinky, ummm I mean Stewie slept the first few nights in the hallway outside our bedroom. He woke me up multiple times and I would check on him. For some STUPID reason I thought that if I just let him sleep with us while he's coughing. Yeah. As you can probably guess, that didn't work out. He slept between us for a while, but I hated it so I moved him between me and the wall. He's such a little bugger. Spoiled.

[schatzie]

Originally Posted by Bitsy

My Sophie must be the naughtiest little puppy on this site!!

She is in a crate at night and when she first came home I put a nice little bed in one end and the wee pad underneath it all with enough area for her to do her business there. Well, the little stinker (literally) would go right in her bed! Yuck! And, she had, um, digestive problems at first, so that was not really very pleasant.

Now I have taken the bed out (got tired of washing it everyday) and just keep the wee pad in there. Once in a while I'll put the bed back, or a blanket, or a t-shirt or something else to see how she does, but more times than not she just poos where she wants too and doesn't care if it is on her bed.

Does anyone else have a Yorkie that does this? She is going to be extremely hard to house train I think. She will go anywhere, even if the wee pad is just as close.

Bitsy - that is kinda odd about Sophia. I truly always thought that dogs don't poo or pee where they lay?? Well of course unless they have diarrhea and can't hold it or some other medical issue.

But in Sophia's case she kinda just sounds like she doesn't care where she goes. Kinda funny...Ok, I know, not funny. And I sure give you credit washing her bedding every night.

Hopefully there will be other posts with the same situation to give you some insight on this.

Schatzie sends Sophia puppy hugs by the way!