What workarounds did people try for "My dog keeps waking me up at night"?

Community members documented 12 workarounds: 1. Putting the dog's bed on the owner's bed. 2. Attempting to crate the dog overnight. 3. Sleeping with a loud noise machine and air purifier 4. Taking the dog's collar off so it doesn't jingle 5. Putting a cone on the dog to prevent licking and chewing 6. Using earplugs 7. Tiring the dog out with a strict play schedule, long walks, or daycare 8. Having the dog sleep in a different room or behind closed doors 9. Turning up the heat and giving the dog an extra blanket 10. Using a gate or pen across the bedroom door so the dog is confined but not isolated 11. Giving a lick mat or stuffed chew right before lights out 12. Getting prescription medication like Trazodone from a vet

My dog keeps waking me up at night

Dogs disrupt their owner's sleep by constantly moving around, jumping on and off the bed, and making loud noises like sneezing, shaking, or chewing their nails. Owners end up losing their minds from the constant wake-ups, but forcing the dog into a crate overnight often fails because the dog will completely lose its mind.

Overview

Last updated Oct 30, 2026

People affected5 accounts across 2 forums

Workarounds found12 items attempted

Community agreement17 total upvotes

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

This comes up 45.3× more often in r/dogs than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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Putting the dog's bed on the owner's bed.
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2
Attempting to crate the dog overnight.
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3
Sleeping with a loud noise machine and air purifier
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4
Taking the dog's collar off so it doesn't jingle
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5
Putting a cone on the dog to prevent licking and chewing
Did this help you?
6
Using earplugs
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7
Tiring the dog out with a strict play schedule, long walks, or daycare
Did this help you?
8
Having the dog sleep in a different room or behind closed doors
Did this help you?
9
Turning up the heat and giving the dog an extra blanket
Did this help you?
10
Using a gate or pen across the bedroom door so the dog is confined but not isolated
Did this help you?
11
Giving a lick mat or stuffed chew right before lights out
Did this help you?
12
Getting prescription medication like Trazodone from a vet
Did this help you?

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In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/dogs4 people · October 2026

“My dog keeps waking me up at night and im losing my mind.”source ↗

“She wakes me up at night by loudly licking, sneezing, chewing her nails extremely loudly, shaking, jumping on and off the bed.”source ↗

Remarkable_Hotel4006 · r/dogs · 7 upvotes

“I stopped my dog from making noises at night by having a play schedule every day with him.”source ↗

RaquelNeedsCoffee · r/dogs · 6 upvotes

“my senior arthritic dog started out of character jumping on bed in the middle of night.”source ↗

dahlien · r/dogs · 2 upvotes

“My guy developed it and was acting weird at night.”source ↗

surfaceofthesun1 · r/dogs · 1 upvotes

r/puppy1011 person · October 2026

“he moves around at night, and it wakes me up every time.”source ↗

“he loses his mind if i try to make him sleep in the crate overnight.”source ↗

jayhawkhoops09 · r/puppy101 · 1 upvotes

Where this came up

r/dogs r/puppy101 dog behavior dog training health pets sleep