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Oh, I am so jealous!! It looks like he had a great time! I love Acadia. Used to work for the park service actually, so I've hiked all the trails there many times! I'm hoping to make it up there this summer with Sammy.


I bet he's tired now!

OH MY GOODNESS. I just LOVE her!!! What a cutie. She must be a little less wild than Sammy was as a pup- no way he'd ever have rested calmly next to a plate of food, even if the kibble pieces were technically too big for him to eat- he'd have been wolfing them down anyway!

Oh, I'd be willing to bet he can hear something outside. My dog can tell when people walk by in front of our house, and he's not got a low enough window to see them... I think he can hear their footsteps or something, even when I'm sitting next to him and I can't. My guy (Sammy) has had similar problems sleeping through the night, and I posted about it recently and got some great advice (mostly about his crate likely being small for him) if you want to search that thread and read it. I have also seen Sammy be bothered in the house by wind he can hear outside- maybe wind at night is bothering your guy.


By the way, when is your little Berner coming?

good news! he does not have a blockage. He's starting to feel a bit better, I'd say- his energy is back, but he still has  bad diarrhea, poor guy. The vet has him on special canned food for a couple days, and I added a  bit of pumpkin to it yesterday. I hope he's really better soon!

Thanks for the kind words! I haven't heard from the vet yet...  but doing a little research online, I don't think nylabone makes a peanut-flavored bone except for an edible one. So I'm hoping maybe that's what my mom got, in which case maybe the stomach upset is just that his stomach didn't like the bone, rather than a blockage!

Thank you all SO much for your helpful ideas. I think that problem may be, as several of you have suggested, that he is really getting too large to be comfortable in his crate for the whole night. He's 85 pounds, and really can't stretch out in his crate, which is definitely big, but not huge. He will sleep well out of it- the main reason I still have him sleeping in there is because I will shortly be moving to an apartment with a roommate, and I want to be sure that I am able to have a place where he can hang out and be away from the busy-ness, both to help him be more comfortable with the move, and also to keep him out of my roommate's hair, if necessary. However, I do have a bigger crate I will be using when I move. It is in fact HUGE. It's a wire crate, and is about 3.5 feet wide by 4.5 feet long, and probably close to five feet tall. I actually think it might be designed for a pony or something (haha)! But certainly, he could sleep in there- the only problem is, it's in the basement at my parents' house as it doesn't fit anywhere else! I'm planning once I move to put it in my bedroom (I'll have a big room) and maybe even loft my bed (carefully! strongly!) over the crate, so he can sleep in there, where he'll have tons of space to stretch out, right in the same room as me. I know he will like being in the same room as me- in the past, he has slept in my room, and has been happy and quiet. At my parents' house, he sleeps in the crate in the kitchen, because that is where their dog sleeps. So yeah, there are a LOT of potential distractions for him there- the other dog, cars passing on the street, any noises he can hear outside. No wonder he is having trouble sleeping!

Thank you all so much! I think for the next couple weeks until I move, I will try having him sleep in the large crate in the basement. It isn't ideal, but he can't sleep in my room, as the dogs aren't allowed on the second floor (my parents' rule) and he can't sleep loose in the kitchen because he would spend the whole night trying to play with my parents' dog, who he ADORES. Actually, I could try letting him sleep loose in the kitchen. My fear is that I want to have the option of crating him in the bigger crate for the night, and I am afraid if he gets used to sleeping loose, he will be unhappy going back to the crate, even if it is a larger one. thoughts on that?

sorry for the novel!

I don't know anything about carting, but oh my goodness I am excited to see pictures of her!! My Sammy is ten months old, and there aren't too many Berners on this board, so I'm excited to see another pop up!!