Hello everyone! My dog is a 10 year old boxer. She’s always been with me, but for her whole life I wasn’t allowed to have her inside the house (she lived in my backyard, very big one, but still a backyard). In the last few days I was able to bring her home with me and I was so excited to finally do this. I knew she was good at home because when I go on a vacation I bring her in hotels and she behaves so well, never breaks stuff, she’s not anxious to be alone and so on.
The issue is I’ve never walked her exclusively to pee at home and I’m having issues with the schedule. I thought about 3 walks per day, but then she started waking me up every morning at 6 am to pee (which to me is kind of an issue since I suffer from insomnia and I can’t sleep until very late) . So I started to go out with her 4 times, the last one as late as possible not to wake up anybody else in the house (so usually around 10 pm, that’s the latest I can go). Even this solution doesn’t work, she still wakes up at 6 and I’m almost sure that she really HAS to pee, I’m not sure she would be able to wait and I don’t want to do that to her body obviously! I’m gonna get up at 6 until she needs me to, but I would really like some advice. I feel like a new dog owner.
(P.s. sorry if I made any grammar mistakes, English is my second language).
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