19 week cocker spaniel puppy, we’ve had him 9 weeks
hes never been a big sleeper, recently been tracking it and we reckon he gets about 13.5-14.5 hours a day (including his overnight sleep). I know this isn’t enough
we have started to enforce naps and whilst this has been a big help in how often he falls asleep, it’s not really helping to extend said naps. he won’t really sleep for more than an hour at a time during the day.
we’re making sure he has white noise on, dark room. we do plenty of enrichment games during wake hours and he has 3 x 15 min sniffy walks per day (slightly longer off lead walk at weekends where he can socialise with other dogs)
I think the other problems we face like separation anxiety and quite bad bitey, lungey episodes all relate to the fact he’s likely chronically overtired. not sure how to get him to sleep more / for longer? should I reduce his wake periods to 30 mins? fear he would just protest if I did this as he wouldn’t be ready to nap again
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