Help Needed! Sleeping Through the Night

[Beth Cluxton Hecquet]

New to the board with a new bulldog puppy, Windsor. He is nearly 4 months old and I wasn't prepared (or more accurately the breeder said he was sleeping through the night) to be getting up between 1 and 3 times a night with him to go out.

When typically to bulldog puppies have the ability to hold it through the night? And what can I do, if anything to help this process? I don't want to limit his water in the evenings as he is typically playing a lot and we try to take nightly walks.

Beth

 

[Rural mystic]

What age was the pup when you brought him home?

 

[Sheena]

Oh wow! Daisy is a little over 3 months and she has slept through the night since we brought her home at 8 weeks. Well I take that back. The first week I got up with her once a night at around 2 am. But other than that she gets up at 5 when I do and she eats and does her business and back to bed she goes. I go easy on the water later in the night. I of course dont take it away but I try to limit it. Im sorry Hooefully things get better!

 

[SugarBuggerBear]

Do you crate her at night?

 

[dolphin]

Buster will be 14 months next week and I think has only slept through the whole night about 10 times in his life. He isn't crated at night though. I know the older they get the better they learn how to hold it. The breeder may have had a place by the sleeping area for the little babies to do their thing during the day and in the night so they wouldn't have known.

 

[2BullyMama]

They can only hold their bladder for 1 hour more than they are old... so, if he is 3 months old then he can only hold the bladder for 4 hours.

 

[Jennifer Clark]

[MENTION=2894]2BullyMama[/MENTION] I had no idea great info thank you.

Love has a name and its name is Sheldon!!!<3

 

[2BullyMama]

@2BullyMama I had no idea great info thank you.

It is a great guideline to follow when setting a schedule for potty training

 

[Davidh]

I would crate train him if you aren't already. By 6 months of age he should hold it all night, with an occasional accident.

 

[Jennifer Clark]

It is a great guideline to follow when setting a schedule for potty training

I agree I will definitely keep this in mind if and when I get another bully.

 

[JAKEISGREAT]

When Jake was a pup..I actually slept on the sofa with his crate in the same room. I tried to have his last potty time about 11..at 2 he was stirring. I just picked him up and carried him out to grass. He peed and right back in his crate. Then he was good until everyone started waking up..about 5am. It took a month and I gradually lengthened the time until he went from 11-5. It wasn't more than 6 weeks. A lot like with a human baby...

 

[mavsfan4life]

Mayhem is crate trained. Up until he was about 12 weeks, we took him out once during the night (around 2:00). At 12 weeks he began sleeping through the night and doesn't have any accidents in his crate. We started off at 12 weeks being in the crate from about 11:00 until 5:30, now at 15 weeks, he is good until around 7:00 if we decide to sleep in a little on the weekends.