Category: Top Dog

Sorry if this is worded odd. I'm furious and scatterbrained. I'm watching my aunt’s dog for a few days. He's a large breed, 8 weeks old.

He went to sleep at 11pm. Woke up at 2am. We went potty. He's been a few times. Pee and poo. It's 4:20 and won't go back to sleep. He will ONLY settle OUTSIDE right now. He sleeps inside during the day just fine!!!. It's cold out here. my two cousins share a room. It's the only option for me to stay in there with its crate.

He won't stop randomly barking when inside. Won't settle back in his crate again. Ignores toys to bark and bite me. I know he wants to play. But I can't do the thing where I leave the room when he bites (instead of punishment) because he will wine and bark and people are sleeping!!!

The NOISE is driving me completely insane. My legs are bruised because I cannot help but to hit them out of frustration. My tongue is sore from biting it.

I'm not usually so short tempered. It's just children and puppies. Which is why I don't have a child or puppy myself and probably never will.

I have 3 more nights of this. What do I do:(

Edit: he's also aggressive when I touch around his shoulders or have my hand around him when eating (I know because he was trying to eat something he wasn't supposed to, I took it away, and he snarled and bit me)

We have a 5 month old miniature schnauzer. He has slept in our crate since we got him at 8 weeks. Goes in around 10:30 and would sleep until 6:30-7. 2 nights ago he was up at 5, barking, I ignored until 6am then got him up. I thought maybe he had to poop or something since he wouldn’t settle back down. He didn’t, just short pee. So he tricked me. Tonight it was 4am he was up. I ignored him, 4:30 he puked so I got him up, changed his blanket, got him water and took him for a pee. Then it was straight back into the crate. It is now 6:15am and he’s still going 🥲 he stops for a few minutes and starts again. Do I just need to wait this out? Is this typical for this age? Any tricks that worked for anyone? He’s in our room, blanket over the crate with a sound machine. I’m so sleepy 😭