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Help, what are we doing wrong?
We've had our rescued papillon mix, Wylie, for about a week and a half. We took him to the vet and got a clean bill of health and he's mostly housetrained - only had two accidents so far. For about half the nights we've had him, he's woken us up in the middle of the night. We thought he had to relieve himself but he barely goes when we take him outside but he goes. Here are a couple of the facts I'm sure you'll ask: 1. We don't crate train. He is baby-gated to the kitchen while we're gone and at night he's in our bedroom with a dog bed and we close the door. 2. We feed him twice a day, in the morning when I get up and at night when we get home. He doesn't eat a lot when we put the food down and we usually just leave it there for him to free eat. 3. Our normal bed time is between 11p and Midnight and I usually wake up at 6:15a.
This is our first dog together. DH has never had a dog and I had dogs growing up but my parents mainly did the training. What are we doing wrong so that we can get him to sleep through the night??
Re: Help, what are we doing wrong?
LOL! I feel like I am on thebump!
He's probably still just getting used to the new surroundings. Have a good tiring play session shortly before bed to wear him out. That should help. He will settle down once he gets used to the routine.
Does he bark or otherwise act out when he gets up or is he just wandering around?
He doesn't bark just wanders around the room and sometimes jumps on us..
This. Also, try to take him on a longer walk in the evening to exhaust his energy. Little dogs need exercise to tire them out just like larger dogs.
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He's about a year and came from the local dog warden so we don't know ANY of his training history.
Thank you for all of your suggestions. We're going to try the feeding schedule and take him for a nice, long walk tonight.