tiffykay06
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Rumble is 7 1/2 months old and has been sleeping through the night for some time. Lately, he has been waking up an hour earlier than normal at 5 AM. Since he has had problems eating drywall and what not, we keep him in his kennel through the night. When he wakes up at 5 AM he barks. At this time we have been getting up and letting him out go to the bathroom just in case that is what the problem is. We then put him quietly back in his kennel so that he knows it is still bed time. He will usually go back to sleep for 20 or 30 minutes and then the barking starts. We know now that he does not need to go out since he was just previously out but if we do not go to his kennel he will bark nonstop until we let him out. The other day the barking went on for a half hour. I do not want to let him out when he is barking like that because I feel like it will teach him that is how to get our attention. What can we do so that he does not bark like this? We have tried putting him to bed up to 2 hours later but he still was up at 5 AM.