Getting a dog to have a lie in.

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During the week, I get up about half 5 in the morning. Of a weekend, and when on holiday, it would be nice to lie in for a bit. Luna however has other ideas. She is awake bang on the dot, and I have no choice but to get up. I’m not wanting to lay in bed until 10/11, I am quite an early bird, but 7 would be nice.

Any ideas how I can work on this? It’s not necessarily that she needs the loo, it’s not food oriented, she’s just awake and thinks everyone else should be too.
 
My only suggestion is change the dog. Greyhounds/lurchers/whippets all pretty good at lying in bed and not keen to get up.

Sorry, not very helpful ��
 
TheresaW said:
During the week, I get up about half 5 in the morning. Of a weekend, and when on holiday, it would be nice to lie in for a bit. Luna however has other ideas. She is awake bang on the dot, and I have no choice but to get up. I’m not wanting to lay in bed until 10/11, I am quite an early bird, but 7 would be nice.

Any ideas how I can work on this? It’s not necessarily that she needs the loo, it’s not food oriented, she’s just awake and thinks everyone else should be too.
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Ha Ha, I wish I knew! A fellow person up today on my day off at the usual 6am because Hector said so.

We do sometimes have a bit of a lie in if he is exhausted the day before and has a midnight pee pee. That generally only works in winter though as in summer the sun and birds inform him of the time :-(
 
Looks like I’m stuck with it then ha ha.

She loves her sleep, has pretty much gone all through the night since a pup, but once she’s awake, that’s it.
 
Could you give her a toy or a chew when she wakes up that will occupy her for half an hour/an hour? That might settle her for you to have a bit of a lie in.

Or teach her the command 'bed'? That might encourage her to go lie back down and settle (if she doesn't already know it).
 
If I want to have a lie in and the dog doesn't, I just let him out to toilet then put him in his outside run and go back to bed. With the lighter mornings you are on a hiding to nothing lol.
 
How I miss lie ins pre-dog.

If I absolutely knacker mine out the day before he’ll let me sleep till 8.

If he gets a midnight/1am wee, about 7.

My workaround is either wake up mega early, take him out then get back into bed, or take him out for his last wee very very late.

The majority of the time he doesn’t even want to go out, he just wants attention or food!
 
Any excuse for a Terry Pratchett quote...

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off.

A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has its own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.”
 
I'll get my two to 'have a word' with her :)

If I'm still in bed, so are the dogs. Even if I get up, they wait to see if it's a serious get up or just a quick trip to the loo!! Button (in her dotage) has even taken to not bothering to get up at all some mornings, while the weather has been foul, so I've just left her asleep and gone out with the Rufus.

It is rather nice to be able to have a lie in, without being harassed. I get up early enough during the week as it is.
 
Someone else beat me to it but I can strongly suggest sighthoubds for lie ins, my two go out for a wee and have breakfast then back to bed for at least 3 hours.
 
Definitely agree you need a sighthound! My whippet is so lazy! When she was a tiny pup, my husband used to let her out in the garden when he got up at 5.30am, but he soon stopped doing that when he realised she actually couldn't be bothered to get out of bed at that time in the morning! Now he opens the door to the kitchen (where she sleeps) when he gets up and eventually she ventures out of her bed to run upstairs to my bed where she crashes again and would stay there half the morning if I let her. On the days my husband doesn't get up early, we don't hear a peep from her, I swear she would sleep to 11am if I let her!
 
I would get a black out blind.
Also, unless she sleeps in the room with you, completely ignore her until it suits you to get up. Pen whines when it is time to start the day and we blank her (she is downstairs) and she eventually gave up,but does start again when she hears movement.
 
We have a blackout blind, I hate any light coming in. Unfortunately, she does sleep in our room.

A couple of times, I’ve got up and let her out then gone back to bed, but she then starts looking for trouble. On the odd occasion one of them needs to go out in the middle of the night, she will go straight back to bed after, it’s just 5.30 and up!
 
Well if she is in your room then I think you probably have to just put up with it. Maybe she will grow out of it!?
 
Yup, whippets all the way. Unless hes forced out of bed the oldest likes to get up at 1pm for a quick wee then back to napping until 3 or 4. The youngest is a bit better about getting up, but they are the most bone idle creatures!
 
Wheels said:
I just get up and let my lot out for a pee then straight back in to their beds.
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^ This. Even GoGoTerrier seems to accept that once a week we all get back into bed for an hour. He sleeps in a crate overnight so being allowed into my bed for an hour is a reward in itself and he seems to treat the privilege with appropriate respect. It's not his favourite day of the week though!
 
My three year old cocker and 12 year old collie go back to bed after being fed breakfast at half 6 am and dont mind the odd times we have lie in till half 7 or 8am 😂
 
hm, my older ones are happy to lie in. But the young boy insists it's time to get up at first light - and now that summer is coming in Scotland, I'm not happy about that! LOL

THis morning I appeared to have lay in too long and the protest from him was that he found a dirty sock on the floor and dropped it in my face
 
Red-1 said:
I wish - when I let the dog out the horses know I am awake and want feeding/ turning out. ;)
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Haha! This is my problem! Horses see my curtains twitch (at least one does, I think he stares at the window all night?) neighs, alerts dogs to impending breakfast/wee time. Dogs bark, horses know for sure breakfast is en route.
Stable doors get banged as dogs run out, I swear they work as a pack ;)
 
My son's JRT is the best at lie ins, he often won't get up when other people in the house do - his record is going through the night until 1.30pm the following afternoon! He's now 5 but has always been a sleepy head.
 
I echo all the advice about swapping the dog. My greyhounds need physically removing from their pits. After physically removing them for a morning wee, they go straight back for a few more hours.
 
I would swap her, but she’s just too cute the rest of the time :p

Am hoping she will grow out of it. Aled loves his bed, quite often takes himself back to bed in the mornings, and bang on about 8.30pm will sit at the bottom of the stairs if the baby gate is still shut, waiting to go up. He comes down again around 10 for his last wee. He’s 12 though, not sure I can last another 11 years waiting for her, ha ha.
 
Nope sorry from my personal experience I would not say this would be solved by her being a sighthound :D I have mental sighthounds that wake up at stupid o'clock too..... I must admit I am in automatic mode, I let them out, get them back in again and go back to bed :)

I do remember an epic conversation with Cayla who used to post on here (much MUCH missed believe me, but luckily I still know her in real life and via FB!) - she said that if I told Flick, my little greyhound, to shut up and stop it when she woke me up at 4am then I should tell her off and ignore her

Flick peed on the duvet.

I had to replace bed sheets and duvet..... say no more.... :D :D
 
Matt train her! its pretty easy loads of vids on you tube....and ANY dog can learn it just need to be persistent when training.
Then ask her to go to her matt if she's being a pest in the morning.
Sleep becomes more appealing if theres no reward and excitement from waking you up to start the day.
block out blinds to reduce the chances that its just light waking her but chances are its just the change of routine.
I get up early most of the time but days off sleep ins are on of my favourite things. The dog gets out to pee, small amount of food then im back to bed and attempts to engage me after just get the on you matt/into bed command. Took about 2 weeks to break the habit,and those sleep ins are lost but its pretty handy not she's got the idea.

EDITED TO ADD. Our Behaviourist did have a very good point about the matt though.it has to be a specific item thats not left down in day to day life...ie not just her bed as she gets on and off that when your not their so its harder to reinforce the you stay here until verbally released idea....il see if i can find a good vid/articles to expalin the concept a lot better then i can.
if your a clicker fan this is a good breakdown
http://www.australiandoglover.com/2016/10/dog-mat-training-in-3-simple-steps.html
or just the basics well explained
http://www.woaw.org.au/teachers/mat-training-dogs/
 
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