My 13 week old Bernedoodle is doing great with potty training during the day. He seems to know by now that he shouldn't pee anywhere indoors, and hasn't had many accidents recently as "mandatory" breaks after waking, meals, and heavy play mostly cover his awake time.
I'm teaching him to use potty bells by the front door and he's just starting to get it a bit though not using it consistently, but otherwise he signals to me during the day by coming up to me, pressing on my leg, and worst case giving a small bark if I'm not getting the message. Sometimes he also just heads to the front door and gives me a look haha.
Overnight we're having some issues. This might be a downstream impact of my calmness training but he's no longer whining/barking overnight to let him out. I put him to bed around 9-10pm and then I was doing 1-2am break and then another 5-6am break. His sleep set up is a crate+pen, he usually sleeps in the crate but I leave the door open and if he has accident its basically at the door to the pen (away from his feeding area in the pen). I know this is a downside risk of this set up but I don't want to do full closed door crate training.
Recently he's been making it through the night to 5-6am about 70% of the time. I tried to cut out the 1-2am break because it became more proactive, he was often just asleep and even if he woke up slightly he wouldn't rush to go out and often went back to the crate. He does pee if I take him out though.
The overnight hit rate doesn't seme high enough for me to fully trust him but should I be proactively waking him up at 1-2am again? Sometimes it takes him 30+ mins to go back to sleep and he's clearly more tired in the morning. Is this going to disrupt his ability to sleep through a whole night since it may teach him that 1-2am slot is an "awake time"?
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