Omarable
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I currently have a 6 month old English bulldog and our nighttime sleep routine needs to change; I am almost at a breaking point and need your help.
When we first got him at 2 months, he slept in a crate which was in our bedroom at night. He did well but would wake up really early and refused to go back to sleep after 6am in his crate. He would just cry. We realized the only way to get him to go back to sleep was going downstairs and sleeping on the couch with him.
Around 4 months we decided to let him sleep in our bed because it might make him sleep in. That worked great until he turned 6 months and now jumps off the bed and pees on the floor. Again, no way for us to live.
So we decided to go back to the crate. We’ve been at it for 2 nights. He wakes up every hour and just cries and cries. We comfort him, take him outside to pee, and put him back in the crate with his favorite Kong toy. But like clockwork, every hour he wakes up and cries. Some cries last 10 minutes, others last an hour. Last night he started chewing on the metal crate bars.
Has anyone else experienced these problems before? We aren’t sure what to do and we feel lost. We can’t keep losing nights of sleep and want him to have a healthy night sleep as well.
Thank You!
Olga
When we first got him at 2 months, he slept in a crate which was in our bedroom at night. He did well but would wake up really early and refused to go back to sleep after 6am in his crate. He would just cry. We realized the only way to get him to go back to sleep was going downstairs and sleeping on the couch with him.
Around 4 months we decided to let him sleep in our bed because it might make him sleep in. That worked great until he turned 6 months and now jumps off the bed and pees on the floor. Again, no way for us to live.
So we decided to go back to the crate. We’ve been at it for 2 nights. He wakes up every hour and just cries and cries. We comfort him, take him outside to pee, and put him back in the crate with his favorite Kong toy. But like clockwork, every hour he wakes up and cries. Some cries last 10 minutes, others last an hour. Last night he started chewing on the metal crate bars.
Has anyone else experienced these problems before? We aren’t sure what to do and we feel lost. We can’t keep losing nights of sleep and want him to have a healthy night sleep as well.
Thank You!
Olga