Barking in the night.

Since we got Meg(an) Sparkle, I have to get up maybe 3 nights a week to let her (and obviously Coco has to go too) out. I can't make myself ignore her since she had the diarrhoea incidents. And usually when I do let her out in the night, she has a poo not just a wee. She doesn't bark though. Her way of saying "i need to go out" is she goes into the hallway and shakes, her ears make a terrific flapping sound and I wake up!
 
Since we got Meg(an) Sparkle, I have to get up maybe 3 nights a week to let her (and obviously Coco has to go too) out. I can't make myself ignore her since she had the diarrhoea incidents. And usually when I do let her out in the night, she has a poo not just a wee. She doesn't bark though. Her way of saying "i need to go out" is she goes into the hallway and shakes, her ears make a terrific flapping sound and I wake up!
Snowie did the same. Waking us up and actually needing to wee... sometimes. So, to stop us wondering if this was perhaps a time when he was crying wolf—because sometimes he just felt like going outside to lie on the patio—we now make him go out before bedtime to make a wee. Then, if he wakes up, we know he doesn’t *have* to go and we tell him to go back to sleep. He now reminds us at 9pm sharp that it’s his time to make a wee. Because, you know, it comes with a nub of butter treat! :)
 
Xena only ever whimpers in the night if she's got an urgent poo. So when she woke me up with a whimper last night I ran to the gate...and she promptly ran past me on to the bed. That's a new one. She only sleeps on the bed very occasionally as OH finishes work at 2am and needs his beauty sleep so I don't know what got into her last night. When he finished work he evicted her back to the sofa.
 
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