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Location: Dunstable UK
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Originally Posted by
CaroleC
To be positive, could you stagger your sleeping hours so one of you has an early night & morning - the other, a couple of hours later. It won't be forever, and it can shorten the night quite a bit for your puppy.
I presume you can't make it home at lunchtime, so how about a dog sitter visit to break up the day, or a couple of days a week at daycare. It is more about allowing her to use her mental energy at this age.
Carole, being positive is a good thing. I don't suppose we know all the circumstances, but what quite often strikes me in this and similar threads is why some people get a dog when they can't really put in the commitment that a dog needs/ought to have.
If we knew we would be out of the house several hours a day, every day, we wouldn't have Max caged up. We just wouldn't have Max. Full stop.
And sleeping? Why would you need to cage a dog for that?
Ours just sleeps on his own bed.
We do leave him for a few hours from time to time - hospital visits and stuff like that. Other than that........
We go to the tip, he goes, barber shop, hotels, pub lunches, a two hour drive to see the grand kids....best passenger in the car..
Maybe we just got lucky.