How Do You Get a Puppy to Sleep at Night? While you may find it difficult to get your puppy to relax (more on that below) and accept their bedtime, once they're asleep they won't wake up again unless there's a loud noise or until the need for a potty break wakes them. Nighttime sleep sessions are a similar story. A puppy deep into a nap might be hard to wake up! In other words, if left alone, they'll sleep as long as they need to.Ĭonversely, even if you don't leave them alone, they might sleep as long as they need to. What determines how long a puppy nap lasts is usually the length of time they're left undisturbed. These daytime sleep sessions, or puppy naps, might last less than 30 minutes, or they could last for a couple hours. It's usually for as long as they can until the need for a potty break wakes them up.
Puppies will sleep at various times throughout the day, plus for a long stretch at night.
Puppies younger than that might have different needs. By the time you've brought the puppy home, it's usually at least 7–8 weeks old. Keep in mind, this is the typical amount of sleep for a puppy that's already been weaned from its mother. Your puppy might only be awake for 4 hours a day-which, honestly, just makes their ability to get into everything, pee on everything, and bite everything that much more impressive. Puppies need a lot more sleep than you might think! Most experts agree puppies need between 18 and 20 hours of sleep a day. There are some aspects of a puppy's sleep needs that may surprise you though, and learning about them may help you on your long and fun journey as a dog parent. Even still, you probably haven't thought much about your puppy's daytime sleeping patterns, and understandably so since sleep usually takes care of itself. So unless your puppy struggles to go to sleep at night (which is every puppy, at least for the first couple days in a new environment), you probably haven't thought much about your puppy's sleep patterns. House training, the right amounts of food and water, keeping them away from unsafe things like electrical cords, not to mention biting (oh do puppies love to bite!) are usually higher, more urgent worries. An appropriate puppy sleep schedule isn't usually at the top of the list of concerns of new dog parents.