How Do I Keep Dog From Waking Me Up All Hours Of Morning?
There’s no reason that a healthy dog of this age can’t hold it all night, regardless of breed or size. However, the first thing is to make sure he IS a healthy dog, go to the vet and make sure he doesn’t have a bladder problem, trying to treat a physiological problem like a behaviour problem is not only doomed to failure and unfair, it will also undo your housetraining and make it much harder to retrain – in addition to an infection, there could be a physical problem with his urinary system, especially if he was neutered early in life. Second, assuming your house is air conditioned, I’d take up his water about three hours before bedtime, take him for a good walk just before bed (in addition to the other exercise he’s getting, which is likely not enough, since very few dogs get as much exercise as they really should have (just like us) – terriers need a LOT of exercise, even the small ones), give him something to do with himself if he can’t sleep (a Kong toy stuffed with some of his dai
