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    Mar 3, 2009, 01:53 PM
    2 Year Old Lab wakes us up at 4 every morning
    Ok so we have a 2 year old lab mix - DotDot. She sleeps in our room at the end of the bed on her own bedding. She wakes up a couple times a night but goes back to sleep until around 4ish when she starts licking my husband.

    Is there anyway to get her into a routine that she will sleep all night or is there something else going on?

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    Mar 4, 2009, 05:09 PM

    Dogs do fidget around during the night which is why its not ideal to have them in your room if you're a light sleeper. Can you temporarily build a barricade around your husbands side of the bed so she cannot get to him to lick him? You just need to get her out of the habit. A couple of dining chairs or something might do it. I know it would be a pain if he needs to get up in the night but it wouldn't be permanent. An alternative is get her a crate. She can sleep in there on her bedding with a drink. Make sure you always reward her when she goes in her crate (my setter loves his crate because he gets biscuits every time he 'goes to bed'.) You can even feed her dinner in there so she developes positive associations with being in there. Good luck, let us know how you get on.

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