Dogs as alarm clocks

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What time does your dog get up or get you up in the morning?
Im house sitting this week and looking after 2 hyper cocker spaniels. Tues morning was woken at 4am :mad: and again at 5am, this morning was woken at 6.15 which wasn't too bad.
 
Ours always want to go outside at about 0545 as that's what time my Oh gets up for work....they then leave me in peace until 0830 - breakfast time! If he isn't here they don't ask to go out early!! Very civilised :D
 
Hehe!!:D:D:D

How old are they?:confused: If they are used to working it maybe that they aren't getting as much excercise as they need or they are just playing you up!!:D My spangle used to wkae me up no later than 6am every morning until he was about 2 - after that he became a bit more civilised - now I have to wake him up!!:eek::rolleyes::rolleyes::D:D
 
My Spaniel knows better than to try and wake me!! He will come and sit by the bed at about 7am if I'm not up by then. He just stares at me until I open my eyes, then he pushes his nose in my face, but if ignore him and shut my eyes again he will go back to bed. He made the mistake once of jumping on me as I was sleeping... never again! :D
 
At the moment, I reserve the right to be rather smug about this as I suspect I will be posting something similar soon.

Currently, Herman is sleeping with us in our bedroom, not in a crate (we have had to move in with OHs father temporarily and there is NOWHERE we can crate him). I get up between 6-6.30, clambering over the dog to switch the alarm off. At that point the dog flops onto his back, groans and goes back to sleep. I go get washed/do bathroomy things and if I'm riding in the morning, the dog gets to stay with OH in the bedroom. Within 30 seconds of me leaving the room again to get my tack in the car, the dog is on the bed, IN MY SPACE, usually with OH's arm around him. (I don't get that treatment anymore!) If I'm riding in the evening (and therefore dog coming to work with me) it takes him a good 10 minutes to get woken up and out of bed (literally :cross: ) and ready to go for his run.

However, when we move back home and he WILL be crated, I imagine none of us are going to sleep very well for the first week or so :(
 
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They aren't working dogs and i have been walking them, one is around 10 i think and the other is quite young. There is no ignoring them as the older one barks alot, she also constanly barks and spins etc. at me when i get in after work till her dinner is out for her (but i know she does this with her owner).
I still want a spaniel of my own though:D
 
Beastie? Waken me? Ha! I get up usually about 9ish and it's usually at least half an hour/an hour before she danders downstairs looking for her brekkie!
 
Our jacks wake us at about 6am apart from weekends, (how do they know?) when it's 7.30 and they stand by the door at 10pm at night for their last walk, we think they know when the 10pm news comes on the telly but they love checking the horses with us and chasing after the wildlife so the night walk is probably something they look forward to.
 
If I'm not up by 7 - Freddie will come and poke me with his nose and start whining. I'm normally up by 6.30 though to take him for his morning walk! OH gets up about 5.30 and tries to persuade him out for a wee but he doesn't even twitch an eyelash then!

He also seems to know when its the weekend and will leave us in peace until about 8
 
My Border Terrier will sleep untill mid day! I love him! The sodding RR will wake everyone up at about 4.30 / 5 am when she decided she needs a wee.
If i try to get the little one up earlier than 10 I get a very dirty look and he will be in a huff with me for hours!
 
The dogs are under control because they know I would throttle them if they woke me up, but the cat starts meowing at 7.30 and by 7.45 she will come upstairs and start scratching the bedroom door and yowling until someone gives in!
 
Ohhhhh my bunch are dead civilised then! Milo wakes up first, somewhere between 8-8.30 and wakes me up as he needs a wee. Tilly and Ellie will then wake up and get up with us....Flora however is hard to get out of bed before 10am and usually stays in bed until I shout her for the morning walk!
 
Spangle wakes us at 7am - she isn't particularly noisy, but will stand by the bed and sigh like a heart-broken poet until we get up. Weekends are slightly more relaxed - if we aren't awake at 7am (and the sighing doesn't have the desired effect) then we find a furry spangle wedging herself under the duvet. She definitely knows her days of the week :D

She'll also sigh at night if we're up past 11 in a "how-dare-you-still-be-up-I-want-to-go-to-bed" manner...She's worse than my bloody mother! :mad: :D
 
numptynovice said:
Spangle wakes us at 7am - she isn't particularly noisy, but will stand by the bed and sigh like a heart-broken poet until we get up. Weekends are slightly more relaxed - if we aren't awake at 7am (and the sighing doesn't have the desired effect) then we find a furry spangle wedging herself under the duvet. She definitely knows her days of the week :D

She'll also sigh at night if we're up past 11 in a "how-dare-you-still-be-up-I-want-to-go-to-bed" manner...She's worse than my bloody mother! :mad: :D
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Oh god, She must be related to Otto... :eek: :D
 
:D We know nothing about her heritage...she may well be (scary thought :p)

Does Otto also give you a dirty look when you come home from the pub? We get a "Hmmph you're home then" grunt then she rolls over in her bed and ignores us....until OH drops some toast and then she's magically awake :rolleyes: :D
 
Oh they are definately related in that case ;) :D Otto is the master of the haughty 'What time do you call this??' stare :D

He also makes very loud huffing noises if OH and I continue to talk after the lights have gone off. Several times we have realised we are whispering so as not to disturb him :o :rolleyes: :D
 
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Unfortunately Louis our cocker spaniel wakes me up every morning at 6 am regardless of whether it's the weekend. If I don't get out of bed he whines and sighs. If that doesn't get me up at the weekends, he ups the anti and jumps on my head. Once I get up he then jumps on our bed and goes to sleep, as if he's done his job of getting me up.

Despite this being a pain at the weekends, it has helped during the week when I've forgotten to set the alarm clock for 6am, I've never been late for work, thanks to Louis. Ted my horse on the other hand has made me very late for work!
 
kirstyhen said:
Several times we have realised we are whispering so as not to disturb him :o :rolleyes: :D
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:D:D LOL:D

Henry stays in bed until I get up, joys of a crate in another room;) When we were on holiday and he slept in my room, he had an escalating programme of wakey wakiness, starting from 6am and building from gentle whinging to sticking his cold nose under the covers to stick it against the sole of my foot:mad::p:D
 
Spudlet said:
:D:D LOL:D

Henry stays in bed until I get up, joys of a crate in another room;) When we were on holiday and he slept in my room, he had an escalating programme of wakey wakiness, starting from 6am and building from gentle whinging to sticking his cold nose under the covers to stick it against the sole of my foot:mad::p:D
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PMSL - How do they ALL know that "flippin' cold nose against a cosy slumbering foot" trick?! I think every dog is born with that knowledge...sly buggers! :rolleyes::D
 
If all is quiet Tink won't surface till 9am or so. However if anyone is in the kitchen/dining room she'll bark till she gets out...
 
cold nose on feet you say?! Hmm that sounds better than Milo's choice of awakening...I think I may have explained once or twice before that he just isn't quite right in the head?! :rolleyes: He sits on my chest (this doesn't wake me, he's not heavy!) then he gentley prises my eyelids open with his paw! When I wake up and open my eyes unassisted this is what I see......every morning :eek: :p :D
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then comes a kiss/lick on the nose! :mad: :D
 
I don't do early starts unless I have boarders in that are used to getting up at stupid o clock and whinge on:mad:
My own dogs sleep as I do, so if I sleep in on a weekend they too do't stir until I do, or today, I came home early this am from work and went to bed, OH got up to walk the others and start his dog walking round:D and the whippets stayed in bed with me till 2pm, so literally this is how long they hold, even if OH offers them to go to the toilet, they simply stay under the covers:D, the pointer will sleep in till what ever time and my lazy rotti does not even go out for morning toilets she will wait till we go for walks in the afternoon:eek::D
So basically mine will get up at 7am if I do, or stay in bed with me till late afternoon.:D
I have never owned a dog that woke me up at all:eek:
 
Milo is the first I've had that wakes up and wakes me up in the mornings! He literally will wee himself everywhere (like literally run around screaming whilst it dribbles out!) if I don't pander to it unfortunately...at least its not til 8 at the earliest though, I couldn't put up with 6 am starts! I can however tell the girls to wait in bed while I take him out and then he will happily get back under the duvet with us all after he has emptied his bladder....we did this today as I am poorly :(
 
It seems 6.15 is the usual wake up call time, at least i don't get the wet noses or dogs in the bed treatment. They are shut in the big kitchen/dining room at night and im sure the older one runs and jumps at the door to bang it as loud as she can and then barks, the younger one is in a cage and she has a toy with a bell in it which it sounded like she was banging it against the cage bars. Dogs seem to be very clever and im sure they are able to know what time it is somehow :D
 
During the week, I get up at 5:30am and they (including OH) sleep on for about 45 minutes and then go out walking. Once OH makes a move to do that, they usually spring up and are ready to go.

At the weekend though, I usually get up around 7am to 7:30am (just do for some reason) and one of the dogs will usually follow me down, go outside to take care of business, and then go back upstairs to bed :mad: They and OH are usually up there snoozing for another hour or so, lazy b*****s! :D
 
My 2 cockers are pure evil. Elvis is deaf and will get up whenever the urge takes him and barks until i'm awake and then he'll promptly fall asleep. Wilbs gets up from 5am onwards and stands on me trying to lick my eyes until I move. We tried the whole 'sleeping with them outside the bedroom' thing, but Elvis just doesn't realise how loud his bark is! It's significantly reduced when he's in our bedroom :mad:
 
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