5 month cocker spaniel has never been a great sleeper. For the past 6 weeks or so he sleeps about 8-10.15 in evening, goes for last wee at 10.20 and then sleeps until 5.15am ish (this ranges from 4.55-5.45).
His crate is downstairs, covered, white noise, snuggle puppy. When he barks at 5.15 it’s usually one bark every 10 seconds or so which eventually grows in frequency (and urgency I suppose?) so we let him out and he always does a wee and poo outside (no additional engagement or fun, very boring toilet trip).
But when we put him back in crate he then barks non stop until 6am which is when his alarm goes off. He will also pull his crate cover off. Our idea with the alarm is that he would eventually sleep to the alarm consistently and we could start to push alarm back. When we go downstairs at 6 on the alarm and let him out, we don’t give him attention. We just put water bowl and a couple of toys down and then he usually just lies down by our feet or crate and naps again. will the 5.30 wake ups eventually fix themselves? Are we doing anything wrong? I don’t mind living with it if I know it will get better but I worry we are doing something now that’s making it stick
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