We are having trouble with Annabel at night. A couple hours after we go to be she comes into our bedroom and wakes us up. She runs around like a mad fool, jumps on hubby's head, knocks over ashtrays, grabs and bites my feet, races across the bed, gets into the laundry, and climbs into the open window, behind the box fan!

Being deaf, we can't really tell her "no" or "stop", very easily in the dark and when she's too busy causing havok to look at us when we sign to her. We have tried shutting her out of the room, but she just howls until she wakes up us, and our son. Same thing with shutting her in a room by herself. We've tried wearing her out before we go to bed, but she often refuses to play until the middle of the night. We've tried feeding her before we go to bed, but it didn't help.

The biggest problem is that we are both insomniacs and when she wakes us up, we are often up for hours, online, reading or watching TV. I know that getting up is just giving her what she presumably wants, but we don't really even interact with her when we get up. She just follows us out to the living room and goes nuts on her own out there.

Additionally, I can't say I'm thrilled about being bitten while I'm sleeping either! It's really beginning to hurt!

What can we do to stop this crazed behavior? Oh, I thought of spraying her with water, but we don't really want to do that in the bedroom, because we have alot of special things in there.-- Jennifer
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And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE

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