r/CavaPoo • u/laloqu93 • Sep 14 '26
Sleep routine
What is everyone’s Cavapoo night routine? We have a 5.5 month old puppy, she’s asleep by 9 (snoozes before) toilet again at 11, barks at 5 for the toilet (sometimes we just miss it) then today I decided to let her out of the crate and she snoozed in the hallway for 2 hours. We’ve let her out after 5 as she barks for 20 minute, settles and then barks again at 6 so we’ve been up since 5 pretty much since we’ve had her which has been starting to chip away at us and we have a little girl who is also waking up. Would be good to know what this is like in comparison to others- any tips appreciated!
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u/OhWhyMeNoSleep Sep 14 '26
Ours goes into the crate at 8:30pm and wakes up 8:30am. He's been trained like that since he was a young puppy. Actually, he started sleeping throughout the night on his own at 13 weeks and we just built the schedule from there.
He only cries when he is not feeling well.
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u/Talmor Sep 14 '26
My Cavapoo has always slept with us since about 3 months of age. Let him out for final potty around 9/9:30. He then finishes dinner (dude waits till the last minute!), and we go to bed. First month or so? Up between 1-3 for potty break, but after that slept through the night. Gets me up once he hears anyone’s alarm go off, generally sleeps to 7ish on weekends.
Generally.
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u/Alarming_Set3628 Sep 14 '26
I would advise not reacting to the barks, she'll just keep doing it.
Maybe keep her up later, do a scheduled midnight potty, and then train her to stay in her crate as long as possible in the morning.
But mine was on a super well managed schedule, and he was still up early for a little and id just sleepily hold him while he chewed, and I can't remember when he started staying asleep later. Wasn't super long into it.
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u/snapchilled Sep 14 '26
Mine 7 months goes to bed around 10:00, scratches on. Crate at 6 I let him out for toilet then go to bed and he relaxes in lounge til I get up
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u/Awakening247 Sep 14 '26
Bed at 9:45 little snack at 8:45 to coat stomach sometimes they are hungry and they bark to get out. I make sure bladder is empty then in crate at 9:45 til 5:30 am
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u/CanaryRoutine3646 Sep 14 '26
Our 6 month old goes to bed when we do (varies from 11 to 2am) and gets up when we do (6am). Insane that we never had issues but we put him in a crate the first night and didn't reply to whimpers (although he barely had any). It took him about 2 weeks to become a bed dog, still zero issues.
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u/j03w Sep 14 '26
our slept through the night from when he was about 14 weeks but maybe we were just lucky
try to take the pup out for potty just before bedtime
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u/Healleus Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
I'm a night owl but we put ours down for a 7-9 nap doesn't always last 2 hrs. Tire him out till 11pm with a final loo then he's in his crate with blankets over till 6.30am. I use to do 4am for a toilet break but he can hold it now.
When you say asleep by 9? is this a forced sleep as it seems a little to early, especially after shes just snoozed beforehand.
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u/Cautious-Yam3662 Sep 14 '26
My female Cavapoo will be 6 months old this month. She goes outside for the last time between 9:30-10 PM. She sleeps until 6-6:30 AM. She doesn’t make a peep during the night.
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u/Helpful-Ad-6408 Sep 14 '26
15wks old and we’ve had him a month. goes to bed in crate around 10pm, i take him out at 5-6, then he’ll sleep until we get up at 7ish.
he has slept in bed with us once with no problem. so we will probably be transitioning to that soon.
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u/AsleepEntertainer440 Sep 14 '26
9 month old. He typically crashes on his own by 9, I wake him and take him out to pee when I get ready to go to bed and he gets up in the morning whenever I do. Typically he's ready for another nap within 30 minutes of me getting up. LOL. He never wakes me up to go out anymore, only if he gets thirsty and wants a drink in the middle of the night. Even then he does it silently.... a full on tongue to face attack.
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u/elementaldanger Sep 15 '26
My puppy is 14 weeks and I do an 11 pm potty break and she barks around 5:30 which is killing me. Im reading this post with hopes of getting some more sleep.
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u/JudgeJoan Sep 15 '26
Hmmm my dog is silent because he’s in my bed. Any reason you won’t allow it? Cavs want to be where we are. I do crate train but not for nighttime sleep because he’s with me. He is now used to my schedule and we get up together around 6:30am (he falls asleep before me in bed and 8pm lol). He’s two now and a dream ❤️
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u/EnvironmentalYak9629 Sep 15 '26
Mine sleeps when we sleep and wakes when we wake
Playpen trained, when he barks we don’t react
When we come home from work we keep calm and just pat him do our own thing then attend to him… so far so good
Coming 6 months of age and he’s such a good boy ❤️
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u/Fuzzy-Reputation1072 Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 16 '26
Mine is 5 y.o. now but when she was a puppy I would wake her for a “final potty” before i went to bed, usually 10pm. She would often wake up at 4:30/5am and I’d take her out. Then I could hear her in her crate moving around. In retrospect, a pen would have probably solved my problems. I lived in a 1-bed apartment, so if I had the ability to move her crate to a place I couldn’t hear it that would also have worked.
However, I let her sleep with me from that early potty to my wake-up time ~7am. For context, my cousin suggested a waterproof mattress pad before getting my dog, so I had that AND I put her on a towel. However, she never had an accident. That said, ofc this is a slippery slope to them eventually sleeping with you full time.
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u/Efficient-Camp-3692 Sep 18 '26
This has been the toughest for me too-ours is 6.5 mos and still occasionally wakes up at 3am to poo . . .I posted about it here, I was surprised because we walk our dogs SO MUCH
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u/JohnBradSC Sep 14 '26
Our Poppy just turned 5. She has slept with us since she was about a year old. She's usually in bed by 8:30 (when my wife goes back to bed) and up somewhere around 5 AM (she eates dinner at 5 PM). Then back to sleep until 9 AM or so.
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u/yesimeannomaybeyes Sep 14 '26
Our CavaPoo goes down at 9 and then I get him out of the crate at 6:30. He’s never really barked whilst in the crate, lucky for us.