Dog Not sleeping

Question
Hi I have a 10 year old Golden who will not sleep right through at night...Killing me. Have tried citronella collar but barks through and is usually not happy till we give in and let him in just so we can get some sleep. He is Tethered at night what else can I do

Answer
Keep him inside at night.  Dogs are pack animals. They want to be with you.  Having a crate for it to live in makes it much easier.  Your house and puppy are safe with it in a crate when nobody is around to watch it.

It is only natural that a puppy resists its crate at first.  What the puppy
wants more than anything else is to be others, you, anyone else in the
household, and any other pets.  In our modern society, even if we are home,
other things distract us from the attention an uncrated puppy must have.   The
only real solution is to crate the dog when you aren't around.  The dog may be
happier in its den than loose in the house.  It relaxes, it feels safe in its
den.  It rests, the body slows down reducing the need for water and relieving
its self.  Dogs that have been crated all along do very well.  Many of them
will rest in their crates even when the door is open.  I think the plastic
ones give the dog more of a safe, enclosed den feeling.  Metal ones can be put
in a corner or covered with something the dog can't pull in and chew.  Select
a crate just big enough for the full grown dog to stretch out in.

Leave it some toys.  Perhaps a Kong filled with peanut butter.  Don't leave
anything in the crate the dog might chew up.  It will do fine without even any
bedding.  You will come home to a safe dog and a house you can enjoy.

I am not suggesting what you are doing is the sort of abuse at http://www.dogsdeservebetter.org/home.html but it does illustrate modern thinking.  I am not completely opposed to tethering dogs as long as the dog is happy to be out and is not making a nuisance of itself.  I have my back yard fenced now, but still tether my dogs out front when I am working out there.

Years ago I fought the same problem.  The solution is easy,  bring the dog in.