Help! Toilet training! (and now sleep help needed)

Person_one

McKneff wrote: »

and when you go back in, ignore him for a few minutes.

Yep, sorry, should have said. Ignore him until he's calm, just do what you'd be doing anyway and let him get bored of boinging and spinning.

(This may take some time, my 7 year old rescue dog still takes ages to calm down when I come in!)

McKneff

boinging and spinning.

I love that

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

jaqui59

I used to board dogs in my home, and when a dog decided not to settle when we went to bed, I used to go to them and gently push them back into their bed and growl at them, like a dog, in my deepest voice possible, ensuring I had eye contact with them at the same time .. It hardly ever failed, but I have to mention that this was on mature dogs only, and I don't know how a puppy would respond, but its probably worth a try.

Person_one

jaqui59 wrote: »

I used to board dogs in my home, and when a dog decided not to settle when we went to bed, I used to go to them and gently push them back into their bed and growl at them, like a dog, in my deepest voice possible, ensuring I had eye contact with them at the same time .. It hardly ever failed, but I have to mention that this was on mature dogs only, and I don't know how a puppy would respond, but its probably worth a try.

Oh my word, OP do not do this!

Welshwoofs

Now although it goes against all advice, I picked up my lad at 8 weeks and the first week he screamed the house down at night. I relented and he slept on the end of the bed...then he slept in the bed between the two of us. Him being a Neapolitan Mastiff it was soon impossible to have him in the bed and I ejected him to a dog bed near my bed. That went fine, then I moved the dog bed downstairs and that went fine too. He's not cried at night since that first week when he was a pup.

jaqui59

Person_one wrote: »

Oh my word, OP do not do this!

That was a very extreme reply ... Could I have an explanation please

McKneff

It is tempting to let a dog into your bed, but I read something not too long ago that dogs can pick up bugs from a bed that can be really dangerous to a dog and the opposite transfer of dog bugs to humans applies also.

Toothfairy4

Slept right through last night. 2 minutes of whinging wgen put to bed then total silence for the rest of the night He wasn't even jumping about like a mad man when i came down, just gave me a look of "oh hello" then came over for a fuss.
Seems something has just clicked with him, heres hoping it stays like this thanks your all stars!!

Toothfairy4

Back again! He is still doing quite a lot of whinging when left on his own. Not too bad at night, few minutes of barking then settles down for the night but during the day even if i go upstairs to the loo he still whinges and barks. Longest he has been left alone so far is 2 hours. Does it usually take quite a few weeks to calm down when left alone?

Caroline_a

It's still very early days yet. Be patient, and don't make a fuss when you come back from leaving him. Are you going to take him to training classes - if you teach him 'wait' that is always a good one to get them settled down, once they suss that 'wait' means that you'll be coming back, but not know when