Baxter's last trip outside is usually 11pm.... and he's just turned one....
and he still wakes me up with a 'talk' at about 5-6am to go pee outside.
Which I don't mind so much when I've actually gone to bed at 11... unlike tonight
So, what I'm saying is, maybe when you need to pee... you need to pee?
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Hi everybody, thanks for your replies!
So it seems she's doing okay for age and I'm not alone with the sleeping through the night issues.

I think when I hear her I'll take her out into the garden for a wee use our wee wee command word and praise when she does her business but no excitement and then back to crate for an hour or so. Hopefully this evening napping will phase out pretty soon as I think its a big factor, she just will not wake up though when she decides she's tired

Hoping when she can go out for walks from Friday will provide an outlet for some of her energy before bed aswell. Any ideas how many mins small breed pups need at this age?

And here's a piccie of the little tinker!

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Well poppy has been in the sitting room in her crate for the past 2 nights and she has slept through until 7.30ish with no crying and she has been dry through the night also. I don't know if its because the sitting room is a much warmer room or whether she feels more comfortable in there as that's where we spend most of our time but she's settled beautifully and I'm very happy! Its amazing what a good nights sleep does for you!

Walking is supposed to be for around 5 mins per month of pups age, so a 3month old pup 15mins, there seems to be a variety of opinions on whether this is just for on lead walking or off lead too, as off lead a dog goes more at its own pace.

That said we limit our springer to approx 5 mins per month of age although most of it outdoors is off lead (some long line dropped behind him), but he would just go and go so needs to be limited to protect him and stop a huge build up of stamina that cant be managed later.

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My puppy is now 10 months. He sleeps in a crate downstairs. We generally get about 3 perfect nights when he sleeps from 10.30pm to gone 7pm but every so often he will wake at some point in the night and we do then let him sleep on our bed for the rest of the night.
At first, I used to go down and let him out for a wee then put him back in his crate- I was often up 2 or 3 times a night but this soon settled.
Sometimes he might just get a bit cold or have gone to sleep too early in the evening.
We can't work out a pattern or predict when he will wake but as we get about 50% nights when he behave sperfectly, I don't think we can complain

Its just like having a baby it seems to take forever and the next thing you know they are all grown up and you wonder where the time went....It will pass....

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