My dog barks and i cant sleep. can you help me?

Question

she barks all night and i cant go to sleep.

chetco help me i cant go to sleep

Answer 1

We probably need more information.

How old is your dog? Is it a puppy?

Do you have the dog away from you while you are sleeping?
Is it in a crate? Or blocked off in another room?

Is the dog alone during the day? Is the dog crated during the day?

Does the dog get enough excercise?


Perhaps the dog is lonely, bored, scared. Some dogs truly don't
do well away from their people, especially if they are alone all day.
If the dog is sleeping all day then it probably has too much energy during the night to settle down. Try walking her before bedtime and playing with her. Some dog breeds need work to do. They get bored.

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/SIjnC

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

We had the same problem with our dog, separation anxiety. Is the dog crate trained? If not, use the bottom half of a pet taxi (do not put the top and door on it). Place the dog's bed in it. Once the dog sleeps in it a few days, place the top on it, after a few more days, place the door on it, after a few days, shut the door. Once the dog feels secure in the crate, move the crate away from your bed a few feet, after a day or two, place it in your doorway, and continue moving it away from your bedroom until the dog is able to sleep in the disired room. This helps the dog build confidance to be alone. This worked for us and we had a frantic older dog that we adopted. This worked and we were still able to get sleep =-)

Answer 4

put it in a crate, and don't go to it at ANY point in the night. as some point you must of gone and "see if it was okay", which reinforces the barking. the dog does not get to go outside, get food or attention if it is barking. it needs to know that barking will get it nothing, but ignored.

Answer 5

MAKE SURE YOU DONT GET HIM EXCITED AT NIGHT. NO PLAYING OR NOTHING. BEFORE BED, LIKE TWO HOURS BEFORE, TAKE HER ON A WALK. MAKE SURE SHE STAYS AT HEEL. THEN, IF SHE BARKS AT ALL, EVER, SAY"SHHHH!" VERY FIRMLY. AND AT NIGHT, DON'T RESPOND TO HER BARKING. ANY ATTENTION FROM YOU, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD, IS GREAT FROM YOUR DOGS POINT OF VIEW. ALSO, WATCH THE DOG WHISPERER. HE CAN HELP.

Answer 6

Get a anti-bark items, zap collars , although I don't approuve of electriqution, spray collars, dog wistle and other items. Check you local pet store they should carry an item, or www.ebay.com

Answer 7

there are several things you can do , do you keep the dog outside
are inside. there is a collar that gives them a slight shock when
they bark. this will break them from that habit. it probaly barks
because it is scared, make sure it has a secure place to sleep.
If you can bring it inside and scold it every time it barks and tell it
good boy!!!!if it doesnt. good luck.

Answer 8

Your neighbors must love you. Why is your dog barking? Did you leave them outside? Obviously, your dog isn't happy - you need to find out what's making them unhappy.

NEVER hit your dog. The dog doesn't understand why it's being hit and you will only reinforce aggresive behavior.

Answer 9

Where do you have her sleep at and how old? When we have a fussy one we keep them in their crate in our room next to the bed, on the night stand if small enough. This soothes them and it makes it easier to correct the behavior

Answer 10

A lot of people have that problem. Sometimes the dog is from another house and you could still have that problem, but I don't think there is any unharmful. Sorry.