Sleeping habits

[Salbug12]

Cooper goes to bed when we do and I leave his water out all the time. he has a pee pad in his crate but he doesnt use it unless we sleep later in the morning , He is 13 months old and has slept all night since he was 13 weeks old.

[mistyinca]

Originally Posted by ChiliPepper

Ok, I'm a night-owl and don't turn in until midnight. I haven't had a puppy in 12.5 years so I need a little reality check before my new baby comes next week. I plan to take up his water around 9pm and take him out at midnight when I retire. In between I'll take him when he signals or as needed or every
hour. What are my chances of sleeping at least 5 hours before I have to get up. Also, where is the best place to have his crate, in my bedroom or downstairs? I Look forward to your experience and input. Thanks in advance.

I keep Chloe's crate downstairs in a private corner behind a chair. Actually, to assist potty training, we had to cover all private corners so she wouldn't go potty there, and placing her crate there just helped that problem! LOL.

Anyway, we do potty outside, but when she was really young, Chloe had papers in her x-pen. We put the crate (door open) in the x-pen and papers at the end. She would get up in the night to relieve herself, and go back to bed. She never made a peep. Here's a picture (from another forum) of the set up:picture of x-pen and crate.

At about 12 weeks, she started no longer using the papers at night. So we started closing the door on her crate. She had one accident in her crate, so I left it open for one more week and tried again after 7 nights of clean papers. Since then, she has not had one accident in the night. That was when we put away the x-pen and she only sleeps in her crate at night now.

She is 4 months, sleeps all night w/o a potty break.

But, like we have seen here, every yorkie is different. There's no way to know for sure if your baby will be able to go all night like this at the same age. I think most take a bit longer.

hth