We have a 10 week old Tibetan Terrier Puppy , he wakes us up every morning at around 4am and barks, yaps scratches and whines for an hour or so if we ignore him. He will then start again at about 6am until we get up.
He sleeps in the kitchen in an indoor kennel and we don't have any problems getting him in there at night, infact he goes in himself usually and then falls asleep.

We are not sure if this is a form of separation anxiety, but we need help!

Any advice?

It may be that the pup needs to go out to the toilet? 10 week old pups can't be expected to hold it all night. We usually ended up taking ours out at least once a night. If you know he wakes up about 4am I'd set your alarm and get up about 3:30 (so you're not rewarding the barking) and take him out to do his business and then put him straight back to bed. Over the next few weeks make the time a bit later and later until eventually he is sleeping through the night. If he's really keeping it up that long there is most likely a legitmate reason, and having to toilet is probably the reason.

Wendy

What happened to the rest of this thread? There were quite a few posts on it at one time including one by me?????

the poster did 2 threads with the same title John, the other one is on here too and title is :- we need sleep please help

Thanks Jacki. People really should stick to one thread. It makes a nonsense chasing around a board. I would suggest everyone ignores this thread and posts on the original.

John