Dog expert/ knowledge please😩

Have you thought about nighttime crating? I crated my first from 8 weeks old and although we had a few accidents in the night, she would mainly bark if she needed the toilet and was quickly toilet trained from her being crated at night. .once we got our second our oldest was not crated at night so we didn't crate the youngest but found after 3 weeks that we needed to go back to crating as it was just accident after accident throughout the night and I was loosing my mind! They are crated together as they don't like to be separated and we are rarely woken but I know if they are barking or whining something is wrong or one needs the loo! But a week after we crated she was toileted through the night! Dogs don't/ won't go to the toilet where they sleep! You may find another alternative that works for you but we've found this works well for us and their crate is their safe space 🫶🏼

I agree with @Georgia currently have two sausages plus an Italian Greyhound, and they are all crated of a night - they don’t seem to want to poo where they sleep. Their last feed is around 9pm and they will all go out for their toilet and they’ll be fine until the morning - I think for us it’s more routine than it has been anything else. It’s eat, toilet, sleep. Starting to crate train now will be hard but persevere - I only started crate training my 2yo Italian Greyhound when I found out I was pregnant as he would sleep on the bed. At first it was difficult but now he takes himself to bed 💖 Good luck! X

My pup is crated over night and has been since 8 weeks old, never once had an accident in there even from the day we bought her home, they don’t toilet where they sleep, she never wakes up in the night and sleep all the way through!

@Georgia I’ve tried this and they are soo badly behaved. Mostly the bishion will bark and scratch at the crate for hours and hours. they’ve always slept in our bed at the bottom so almost impossibly to put them in a crate. They used to go in crates when I worked but the bishion would poo in it and it was soo hard to clean plus be all over him. So when we’re at work they stay out now😩

I’ve honestly tried😩but unless they are with me it’s like anxiety causing him to poo and the amount of times I’ve had to clean the crate because he’s pooed then he’s jumping around in it to get my attention. It gets everywhere and all over him. I used to do this everyday and would result in bath time every day. It’s soo hard work 😩

It may resolve by itself when baby is here. You say you can’t make yourself get up in the night, sadly when baby is here you’ll be getting up multiple times a night anyway so you can let him out on a couple of those times and hopefully he’ll go then 🤞

@Georgie yes possibly. I soo hope so. Feel like giving up with them, I don’t understand how they know outside is toilet they’ve both been trained from really young. But still always these occasions they mess it up everyday 😩😩xx