Remember when I was writing you all about moving Kasey out of our bedroom because of so much snoring?! Well, we lasted as long as we could! We were waking up at least a half dozen times a night!

A week ago, it was the perfect opportunity to have silence. We had decided to switch bedrooms now that our last child was moved out of the house. We spent a month painting and moving furniture. I turned our old bedroom - the one Kasey has slept in since we brought him home as a puppy 5 yrs ago - into my sewing room. It also has his crate, which he loves, and a place he loves to sleep in the closet. So we made that his bedroom, and the other room ours.

He seems to do fine at night. I take him out as usual and he comes in and willingly goes in his crate. We put a piece of cardboard across the doorway - if we didn't he would come in our bedroom. But in the morning, after my husband gets up, Kasey starts the whining and wants to get to me. He has busted through the cardboard a few times and does the kind of whining they do when they haven't seen you for a long time - you know, like the dogs in the youtube video who's owners have come home from the war!

He has always been the kind of dog that is right by my side all day. Has kept his eyes on me constantly since we brought him home, and has always slept in our bedroom on the floor (although he never whines like that after we've been gone for hours). So now I feel guilty! It's so nice sleeping in the quiet though....

Am I mean?!!

Not mean at all. My dogs sleep in crates out of my room because they will wake me up way toooooo early! Bad enough that the cat announces his presence in the middle of the night!

Cruel is more like it.........I'm just teasing/kidding your not.
He's a lucky dog having a mommy like you, his own room and closet had to laugh about sleeping in closet that's great.
Some separation anxiety there?

I feel your pain about being woke up I have a cat that wakes me 5 to 10 times a night(working on remedying that) a dog I'm cool with but a cat how soft am I.