Izzy at 12 months still does not sleep through the night

[Lisa Mossy]

What are we doing wrong? Izzy spent first 6 months in a crate in my bedroom - and slept through the night. She sleeps outside the crate now in my bedroom. Now she gets restless and moves around from bedroom to bathroom - wants out to potty around midnight and again at 4 am. I refuse the 4 am and she either moves downstairs or into the bathroom and  back to sleep. She is just restless. She gets 3 45 minute walks a day - ball throwing - LOTS of attention. No water before bed. Do Labradoodles just need human contact every 4 hours?!  We are going out of our minds with the constant waking us up.

[Stella]

My two sleep like the dead!! I don't think they even move during the night! The only time one of them is restless is if they have an upset stomach and need to go outside. Having read the other replies, I guess I am just lucky!!

[Kris and Sawyer]

Sawyer also sleeps like a rock! He can hold his pee a lot longer than I can. I'm the one that has to get up to pee. And when I do get up to shower, he doesn't move. He's not a morning doodle. I shower, get dressed, go to the kitchen and about 5 minutes later he may saunter in like a 90 year old man. I feed him and FINALLY he will ask to go out. And he usually hasn't been out since 9 the night before. He's very mellow and not quite 11 months yet!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Our Fudge will sleep like a rock all night and then there is our Vern. Vern is four and still gets up once a night. He nudges the bed on my husband's side so hard it rocks the bed :) I am sure Vern has trained us, but he does go potty when we let him out, so I hate to ignore him. I keep thinking he will outgrow this behavior....so far, I have been wrong. Oh, and he always heads right to the treat jar when he is done going potty like we should reward him for getting us up. There is no hope for the suckers that live in our house, but I hope you fare better. LOL

[Pat and Traveler]

Trav can make it through the night without potty breaks (age 4), but he'll also sit by the door and look pathetic a couple of times in the night, if he wakes up.  He wants to go outside and look around, though he might potty if I let him out.  If I ignore him, he'll go back to sleep.

[Lynda Kamrath]

I think it is a bit like kids - they all have their own schedules and needs.  Doodles are very energetic dogs and love a lot of activity, but hopefully not at night.  My dogs do not use crates and sleep wherever they want, usually on mats around our bed, but on the tiles when it is hot, and sometimes in the bed.  Since we are older, WE get up at night to go to the bathroom and always invite the dogs to take a walk outside also.  Most of the time, they go out, but sometimes they don't want (or need) to go out, so they just go back to bed.  I think if it bothers you, you might try crating her again but this time in another part of the house.

[Debbie & Gibbs]

Izzy has you trained, LOL. Gibbs is 7 months old and he starts wrestling around in his crate at midnight, we tell him to settle down and go back to sleep. Once he realizes that we aren't taking him out, he goes back to sleep. I don't feel bad telling him to go back to sleep as he goes out for his last potty break is between 10:30 - 11:00.