Puppy won't sleep through the night
I have a 5 month old puppy who used to sleep through the night (from about 11pm - 7am) in her crate, and was completely content doing so. She was also the only dog in the house. About a month ago we went to live with my parents, who have two dogs that my puppy loves to play with. Now, she will sleep in her crate for about 5 hours and start barking. I let her out to go to the bathroom using her commands, and she goes back in the cage right afterwards, when I tell her to. She used to go back to sleep in there until I woke up later for the day, but recently she has begun barking and acting up after she goes back in. Sometimes its 10 minutes later, sometimes an hour. And she will bark until we let her out. This morning she barked for 3 hours until we got up for work. We try not to let her out while she is barking, but we have to let her out when we get up so she can eat, go out and play, and whatever else before we leave for work and she goes back in for a couple of hours. I think she just wants to get out to play with the other dogs, even though they are still sleeping. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get her to sleep until we wake up? It complicated things that we almost have to let her out as she is barking when we wake up because we are restricted by our work schedules.