Jovi hits 6 months this weekend and I don't know if he's starting adolesence but I'm having a couple of issues. The first one I know me and the OH have reinforced so it's not all Jovi's fault.
Last week Jovi woke up about an hour after putting him in his crate for the night, he was barking so the OH went to see if he needed to go out. He was really thirsty and due to the heat and the fact we normally restrict his water at night, he decided to leave the crate open. For a couple of nights in a row we left the crate open so he could lie on the tiled floor, but of course we woke up to puddles. I then tried to crate him on Sunday night and us up an hour later. I let him out in the garden but he wasn't really interested and didn't want to go back in his crate.
Last night I decided that he was going to stay in his crate because I have a friend looking after him in a couple of weeks over-night and don't want him messing for her. Well, he reluctantly went to bed, and started to whine/yip an hour later. We ignored him for half an hour then I got up, put him in the garden, whilst I went to the bathroom, and then put him back in his crate. He carried on for the next couple of hours.. The OH was ready to ring his neck :roll: but I said we had to ignore him. At about 5am the OH was worried that there was something wrong. I said he could let him out again, but that he had to go back in his crate. This was duly done, and Jovi still cried for another half an hour... The OH had enough and yelled at him to be quiet, which he was :? and we finally got a couple of hours kip!!!
I'm sure this is just because he doesn't want to be in his crate, and he's trying it on, but by God can he keep the whining up... Am I doing the right thing?
Problem 2.. Jovi will not go out in the rain to pee! Yesterday lunch-time he peed within a foot of me whilst I was reading the post, on the kitchen floor & when the back door was open!!!!! :x I went for a wedding dress fitting in the afternoon and when I got back the OH told me he'd peed twice more on the hall/kitchen floor.. Now it was like a tropical rain storm and I wouldn't have been keen to go out either, but it is the summer and I am worried about what's going to happen when we get to the winter?!!