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New Dog was previously fed at 9 am every day. Mine gets fed at 10.30 when I get back from yard, so been trying to stretch times to marry up at 10.30. At 9.15 every morning so far new dog is clouting me with her paw and whining, how does she know what time it is ?
 
One of ours was always spot on with when to remind us it was food time even when we changed time to accommodate the other dog needing to be fed 3 X per day instead of 2 she had the new Times sussed in 3 days. In the last few months she has been really bad and often decides it's tea time 3 hours early - she is an old girl now and it has me wondering if dogs can get Alzheimer's and she has genuinely forgot she had been fed
 
I have a lurcher that cries to go out at 5.14am every morning. This is great usually as the alarm is set for 5.15. However, during my 6 week holiday, I'd quite like the thought of having a lie in until...maybe 6am 😁.
 
When I get an old coat off the peg for dog walking, I can't move a muscle without them knowing 'we're going out!'... but when I get a 'smarter coat' off the peg for going out without dogs, they don't budge..
 
Mine are fed at 6pm, I'm pestered if I'm in before that. 9pm is treat time and from 8pm I get sighs, heads laid sweetly on the arm of the chair, hard stares. I don't know how they know the time!
 
cinnamontoast said:
Mine are fed at 6pm, I'm pestered if I'm in before that. 9pm is treat time and from 8pm I get sighs, heads laid sweetly on the arm of the chair, hard stares. I don't know how they know the time!
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LOL @ hard stares - i know exactly the ones you mean! My guys never let me forget when it's dinner time!

P.S Yes re doggy dementia - it's called Canine Cognitive Disfunction xx
 
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I have three labradors.

Lab 1 - dog, 8 years old, bang on for timings for supper - At 4:58 p.m. he saunters in and starts drooling. However, he has a morning problem. If I set the alarm for 5:30 a.m. on Monday, he wakes you up at 5:20 a.m. for the rest of the week. Normal alarm time is 6:30 in the school holidays. You gradually convince him that he needs to wait for the alarm to go off and eventually he'll come back and poke you at 6:20 and you get up anyway - and breakfast must be served then. Heaven forbid if you then have to get up at 4:30 on occasion, it takes far longer to convince him that he needs to wait until 'normal time' after that.

Lab 2 - bitch, 4 years old, not food orientated. No. Ball game orientated. They usually have a wonder and a ball throwing session a couple of hours after breakfast. If you are late she agitates. Ball in lap. Ball taken away. Stand behind you and pant. Get under your feet. Ball at your feet... Same in the evenings - the switch from summer to winter takes her about 6 weeks to work out. If perchance you chuck a ball in the afternoon, well, you'll have done it then. At whatever time you decided to do this extra ball throwing, that is what time you will be given a ball for the next six weeks.

Lab 3, dog, 3 years old. Alarm goes off, snoring stops, opens one eye, looks to see if anyone is actually moving, shut eye, start snoring again. 5 minutes later, opens both eyes with a start, 'Oh! I've missed breakfast!' slide off bed, stumble through doorway, wait for back half to catch up with front half, wonder outside, have a pee, come back, lie down at food bowl with head in food bowl, hoover up breakfast, trudge back upstairs, climb back into bed. And wait. Because if you try to sneak out to the yard without him, the whole of County Durham will know about it. He sits at the gate and sings at the top of his voice, a lonely, desperate lament. So, not a watch-owner, this one. Just separation anxiety.:eek::p:D
 
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