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Hello. We have two 5 year old, female weimaraners. Awesome dogs. However, in the last month or so one of them gets up to go outside every night at around 3:00am. She goes outside before we go to bed and pees. When she goes out at 3am she pees and poops. She'll bark outside our bedroom door and then downstairs at the back door, back and forth. We've tried to ignore her, but we have a 2 year old who wakes up to the barking.
Any suggestions on how we might break our weim of this habit? She's housebroken, but has peed in the house on a few rare occasions, so there is the chance that she'll do that if we just ignore her completely.
I should add that we feed them their final meal between 4-5pm, and their water bowl is empty by 7:00. Should we consider adjusting their feeding schedule?
Moving it up might help. Making sure they move around on their last trip out might help. Since they used to do OK., maybe the vet could find something.
Do you take your dogs for walks before bedtime? That might be a way to get them to empty themselves of both urine and poop so they don't have to go in the middle of the night.
It could be a urinary track infection. I would discuss with your vet. I had an older dog who couldn't make it through the night anymore and I had attributed this to old age. When I mentioned it to the vet, she took a urine sample and found a nasty UTI. Some meds and a week later - we were all sleeping through the night again.
Update on our weim: After reading your suggestions I decided that we should try and break of her habit of getting up so late. So I got up at 3:00am and scolded her, told her to lay down and go back to bed. And she has ever since. No more getting up to use the bathroom. It's been a week so far. I hope this doesn't jinx me.
Hello. We have two 5 year old, female weimaraners. Awesome dogs. However, in the last month or so one of them gets up to go outside every night at around 3:00am. She goes outside before we go to bed and pees. When she goes out at 3am she pees and poops. She'll bark outside our bedroom door and then downstairs at the back door, back and forth. We've tried to ignore her, but we have a 2 year old who wakes up to the barking.
Any suggestions on how we might break our weim of this habit? She's housebroken, but has peed in the house on a few rare occasions, so there is the chance that she'll do that if we just ignore her completely.
thank you.
If she's doing her business when she goes out, obviously she needs to. How would you feel if you had to go and had no access? try feeding her earlier.
I have a Weim thats about to turn one - they're GREAT dogs but they do tend to establish their own schedules. I leave his food and water out all day long. Its always there when he wants it - and we don't have the problem of the waking up in the middle of the night.
We allow ours to sleep in our bed and leave his kennel door open so he can come and go as he pleases. The only thing I can think of thats saving us from the 3am wake up call? We tell ours "Go night-night" and he lyes right back down. Maybe she just thought it was play time )
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