Cara's Mum
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Murphy is 4. He sleeps in the sitting room in his bed, with the door into the hall closed.
Over the past month or so he has started barking at night time and/or scratching at the internal door (he can scratch for up 15-20 minutes). This can happen any time from the moment we go to bed, or worst of all in the middle of the night. At the start we thought he needed to go to the toilet and let him out into the garden but we fast realised that he didn't need to go, he was just looking for attention.
It is getting to the point that he is driving us insane. We are ignoring the behaviour at the moment hoping it will stop, but when he is also waking our two small children in the middle of the night, it is not funny. The other night for instance he scratched like mad on the internal door at 1.45am, he woke us and our 3 year old, who was awake for an hour. He then repeated the behaviour at 6am and woke the whole house for the day.
We are exhausted and getting very fed up with him.
A yappy dog has moved in to the house behind us, but while I cant be sure, I dont think he is disturbing Murphy at night.
Has anyone any clue as to what we can do to stop him from doing this and getting him to sleep quietly through the night again? We are at our wits end.
Thanks.
Over the past month or so he has started barking at night time and/or scratching at the internal door (he can scratch for up 15-20 minutes). This can happen any time from the moment we go to bed, or worst of all in the middle of the night. At the start we thought he needed to go to the toilet and let him out into the garden but we fast realised that he didn't need to go, he was just looking for attention.
It is getting to the point that he is driving us insane. We are ignoring the behaviour at the moment hoping it will stop, but when he is also waking our two small children in the middle of the night, it is not funny. The other night for instance he scratched like mad on the internal door at 1.45am, he woke us and our 3 year old, who was awake for an hour. He then repeated the behaviour at 6am and woke the whole house for the day.
We are exhausted and getting very fed up with him.
A yappy dog has moved in to the house behind us, but while I cant be sure, I dont think he is disturbing Murphy at night.
Has anyone any clue as to what we can do to stop him from doing this and getting him to sleep quietly through the night again? We are at our wits end.
Thanks.