Hello,
Im having a few issues with my dog Tilly, she is a Rough Collie / German Shep about 6 years old recently rescued from a dog shelter (6 months ago) she sleeps downstairs with my other dog Joey. They have the Front room and hall way. She wakes us up at different times during the night barking, this morning it was about 2am and then again at 5am. We thought it might be the sounds outside so started to leave the radio on which worked for the first few weeks but then gradually she has started again. We shut the curtains in the hope that she can't see anything. We tend to shout down to shut her up which works but then i know thats wrong as we are paying her attention the problem is if we dont' she continues. She doesn't want to go out as we walk them just before bed, and as as soon as we go down she runs to her bed. i think it's just that she wants us up??? We have used the Alpha training book which we are constantly doing but i still feel that she thinks she is the alpha. She still jumps up before walks as she gets so excited so we turn our back or lift our knee. We can't take her off the lead yet as her recall isn't the best although we are wroking on it. It took our other dogs also a rescue 2years and now he is very obiediant so we are percievering.......we just are losing patients due to lack of sleep and we both love her so much.
Any help would be really appreciated. xxx
