Anka is 3 1/2 months old. She is a wonderful GSD. I am impressed with her every day. I work out of my home so we get to spend the majority of days together.
What concerns me is she does not sleep. She is so interested in what I am doing she will not lay down during the day to nap. Yesterday working in the yard and shop she watched the whole time. About mid-afternoon she started getting real whiny. That's when it hit me. So I locked her in her crate and she crashed for about 15 minutes and then sat at her crate door waiting for my return.
Should I just make it a regular schedule for her to spend more time in her crate? She likes the crate and when ever I tell her to go she go happily. So it's not like she is in there screaming her head off, she will just sit quietly.
Thanks Mike. I guess my main concern is the lack of sleeping in the crate when she is put there. At most she will nap for 15 minutes and then sit and wait. And the nap is only once. I can put her in her crate multiple times but she will only nap once.
Melissa Hoyer Webboard User Reg: 05-09-2005
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My girl...now 9 months old...doesn't sleep either. She lays down for a minute, but never really sleeps regardless of the amount of exercise she has gotten. So we stick to a relative strick schedule of her going in the crate around 9 pm and getting up at 6-7ish...a few hours of play, exercise, and eating are followed by another 3-4 hours in the crate depending on the day and our work schedules. BTW, she doesn't always sleep during this block of time, but she is forced to at least rest. This has worked out really well for us...she literally gets whiney when she is tired lol.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but....some dogs don't sleep, or at least don't appear to. I know that my dog must sleep, since he hasn't died yet; it's just that I've never seen him do it. He did the same whining thing as a pup, too. If I really want him to sleep now, I put him in his crate in the garage, where there's nothing going on. I wish I'd done this when he was a pup, although I don't think he was as bad then. It got worse as he got older. Pace, pace, pace. If I'm up, no way will he sleep. He may look like he's sleeping, but moving one muscle proves he's nowhere near asleep; he's up in an instant at the slightest movement or noise. Exercise doesn't cure it, although he's a bit less edgy after a lot of mental stimulation. I've learned to live with it, and learned that next time, if I want a dog who sleeps, I'll get a showline, lol;-)!
Sandy Moore Webboard User Reg: 07-25-2006
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I don't think I ever had a dog that really slept. I don't think dogs actually sleep
They may sleep deeper at night, but night or day one noise or a movement, and they're completely awake. They close their eyes, go into a "dog sleep", but seem to hear everything and know everything. Don't know if they ever go into that deep REM sleep that humans have. For instance, I don't think a dog would ever sleep through a fire in the house, unlike a person. They're just always aware of their surroundings and the goings on in it.
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