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Here's what we have been doing. We feed her around 5pm, and take her water up around 8:30pm, then it's bed by 10pm. She has no problems going to her kennel, but for the past few weeks she's been waking us up every 2 or 3 hours to go out. When I do take her out she goes right away so of course I feel bad for ignoring her. But since it's been so cold and we have a fenced in yard I've just been letting her out on her own. Usually she comes right back in since she knows she will get a treat for going potty. But since we have snow now, she wants to stay out and play in it! When we bring her back in she wants up on our bed instead of her kennel. (My hubby introduced her to the bed a while back and she's never forgotten it!) Usually if we put her in her kennel she whines for a minute and then goes to sleep. But the last few weeks she whines, cries, barks non stop and last night EVERY HOUR she woke us up. Finally after the 4th time waking us up (2 AM) we took her out AGAIN, she pottied and then I caved in and put her in bed with us. I know I shouldn't have given in, but I needed to sleep! She lasted 2 hours on our bed and then wanted out again. Hubby took her this time and he didn't notice if she pottied or not. But of course she didn't want to come in as she was playing. Hubby is at the back door in his undies yelling at Payton to get in the house. I hope none of the neighbors were up! :doh:
I know we should be taking her out on a leash to eliminate "Play time" at night, but it's such a chore to get the coat and boots etc. on fast enough so she doesn't go inside. And I know we shouldn't give in to her barking and whining when she wants on our bed, but it at least keeps her quite. Hubby is ready to put her out in the garage tonight, but I won't let that happen since there's no heat out there. I don't know what else to do. It's like she has us right where she wants us!
I know we should be taking her out on a leash to eliminate "Play time" at night, but it's such a chore to get the coat and boots etc. on fast enough so she doesn't go inside. And I know we shouldn't give in to her barking and whining when she wants on our bed, but it at least keeps her quite. Hubby is ready to put her out in the garage tonight, but I won't let that happen since there's no heat out there. I don't know what else to do. It's like she has us right where she wants us!