What time do your dogs get you up in the morning & how?

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My dogs seem to be getting up earlier and earlier latley, and when my parents had them while we were on holiday they were getting them up in the middle of the night!
 
They don't - I get them up! They sleep on our bed and are quite happy to snooze until one of us gets up (usually about 6 a.m.).

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I have the opposite problem. If given half a chance my dog will crawl onto my bed and happily stay there inert until well into the afternoon. :rolleyes:
 
When we went camping, Henry tried to get me up at 4.30am for his breakfast. :mad:

Normally he sleeps in his crate downstairs for this very reason:D
 
Herman sleeps with us as well - the alarm goes off at 6, I get out of bed and the dog crawls in to my spot. Boyfriend then rolls over to cuddle the dog :angry:

By the time I've got the kettle on, opened the curtains and cleaned my teeth Herman has generally mooched downstairs to see what I'm up to, but if his perimeter check of the garden (he goes out when he comes downstairs) proves unfruitful, he comes back in and goes back to bed.

Weimaraners, a high energy breed? Clearly I have a faulty one.
 
The outside dogs bark throughout the night, usually after being spooked at owls/muntys/fallow/rats. pisses me off.

The inside dog sleeps along my side, usually i have to bother her to get her out of bed so i can, she just rolls over and groans at me.
 
During the week, about 7am... as that is when we get up. Weekends the wingeing usually starts around 9..........
 
My OH gets up at 7, walks them to the green and back and then leaves for work. As soon as he's shut the door they come barrelling upstairs and onto the bed where, on rare occasions, they will happily sleep through until midday. More usually if it's going to be hot I'm up and taking them out for a big walk half an hour later and in the winter it's a 7am start for everyone as I need to head down to the yard to see to the 'oss.

They are strange creatures, would sleep 23 hours out of 24 if I let them but stick them in a harness and they'd run flat out all day.
 
Suzy gets up at about 5.45 (she sleeps next to my bed), which wakes Millie up (who sleeps on my bed - or sometimes in it!) they both go out into the garden, and then both get back into bed with me for 10-15 minutes. I'm sure Millie wouldnt get up at all if Suzy and I didnt - she's a lazy little beggar and i have to literally wake her up when its time to get up properly - she does the dead weight i'm not moving thing!
 
My border collie seems to be getting me up at 5am recently by talking away very loudly, if I open my eyes he sees I’m awake and gets mega excited and starts nudging my arm franticly and licking me which then wakes up the elderly king Charles who joins in with yapping and trying (& failing) to jump on the bed. So when he wakes me up I have to pretend I’m asleep! I dread getting up to the franticness! I can’t work out if it’s to go out for play in garden or he’s hungry as he doesn’t seem desperate for the loo..
 
The pup about 6am-7am, I can hear his tail thumping on the crate.
Big dog about the same.
Depends when it starts getting light, I try to keep the living room as dark as poss for the chance of a lie in :p
 
Alarm goes off at 6am and as soon as my eyes open both dogs are staring intently at me then the tail thumping starts for tumtum tickles :D

We head out for 1st walk at 7am.

At the weekend I try at get them out for last wander to field at about 1am ish so then I don't feel guilty for having a lie in til half 7 or so. Neither will pester to go out though as pretty happy to lounge on my bed I think!
 
Mine just get up whatever time I do. Milo very occasionally wakes up a bit earlier than me if I'm trying to have a lie in and comes and sits on my chest staring at me until I open my eyes! He goes back to sleep if I say though and give him a cuddle. This is all with the exception of Flora who doesnt get up with the rest of us very often, shes still upstairs in bed now! She likes to sleep the morning away in my bed! It would drive me crackers if they all got up at the crack of dawn. Nobody gets out of bed until I do in this house!
 
When he was a pup, it was 6am or thereabouts. Now that he is a bit older (hes 16 months) he will only wake up when I get him up. On a day off work recently, I slept in as my alarm didn't go off - I was horrified to notice that it was 10.30am and I had not even heard a peep out of Korben from back hall of the kitchen where he sleeps. I had images of him cross legged and whimpering at the door. I need not have worried because when I opened the door he was flat out snoring like a pig and gave me a look as though he was annoyed I had woken him up. He is a very lazy dog for a Malamute and loves his sleep :D
 
It's the other way round - I have to get Yellow Dog up! He's a lazy little sod who likes his sleep :D I get up, get ready for work etc then as I'm ready to go he's ejected from his bed, he then staggers down the stairs with half an eye open, gets into the car and promptly goes back to sleep again! :rolleyes: :D
 
Mine don't. (2 staffies). I get up 6 -6.30 depending if exiting the house or not and neither one will actually surface to nearly 8.00. As for walking first thing in the morning, younger staffie boy flatly refuses. They both however are fully wide awake and demanding walks come the evening (staffie boy won't go out with the dog walker at lunchtime either! - but he does have elbow displaysia so we can understand his aversion to long walks)
 
Mine will happily sleep until 10am, the lazy gits. However, it's currently 99 degrees in NYC, and seeing as one of them is a pug, their current routine involves being lifted from their beds, duly harnessed, and escorted to Central Park no later than 6.15am.
 
Mine sleeps on a bed at the bottom of the stairs, he will wake up and whine at various times in the morning from 4.00 on, however now I have trained my other half not to go down and see to him as soon as he whines he is now settling back down til 7.00 ish. If he was whining to go out I would obviously be more sympathetic however he is whining to either get access to the Living Room and the Settee or to come up stairs to lie on the bed! (He does have two well stuffed beds of his own however apparently ours are much more comfortable!

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I have to wake up my shepherd x mastiff she snores louder than hubby!! however my collie has got into a really bad habit of licking and nudging me at 4 am!!!! I am then convinced he needs the loo so we trample downstairs , he then gallops into the kitchen and grabs his lead!!!!! little sod!! 4 nights on the trot he done it this week!
 
Ah Fazzie, I sympathise, my 2 springles do this, Chloe will get up off the bed and lick my ear, me, convinced she needs a wee, toddle off downstairs, cue Chloe and Alfie charging round the garden looking for the cat/fox/bird that they know is hiding there. if Im not very careful they will charge back up to bed with a dead mouse that the cat has conveniently left for them, disgusting!! all this at 2-3am :( They then get up when the alarm goes off at 6am, the IWS on the other hand has to be dragged off the bed, I swear that dog would sleep 24/7 if we let him, can hold his wee for ever!!
 
Hmmm reading these replies my dogs seems very lazy! We go inside about 9pm and then he stays sleeping in his bed until I wake him up about 7am. I can get up, washed, dressed and have breakfast and he remains in his bed. On the rare occasion I have a day off he's still fast asleep at 9am :rolleyes:. He runs about on the yard for a few hours and then sleeps in the office for the rest of the day.
 
mt two are crated together overnite,i get up apparox 6.30 even at weekends..the body clock just kicks in..i let them out as soon i get downstairs(dogs arent allowed up stairs although they do try to sneak up at times)

they have a small brekfast then out in the garden then out for their first walk/free run at 8am just before school,slighty different at weekends as im usually racing/coursing them..they come with me to work so throughout the day they have 2 small walks then if i have time take them out again in the evening

my two are up and ready for any walk,as soon as my boots are on they are at the door waiting..my youngest whippy(not in sig) is too much of a lady gotta shove her out when its wet..she cant get her ikkle paws wet..she flipping can
 
My lot are happy to stay in the kennels until I let them out, usually around about 8am. They then go into the field for about 10 minutes before coming into the house for breakfast.

Even if I did not let them out until later they would not be worried as there is a run to the kennels.
 
I have to give mine a poke in the morning spesh when im doing long days as I kick them out of a pee at about 5.30ish.
But their last pee at night is normally 11pm.

If its the weekend and I am changing the sheets that day and I have had them on the bed for the night they dont bother waking us up. We all woke up at 11 once, dogs hadnt moved from their designated sleeping spots (aka Teal on my head, Dylan accross my OH and Will at the foot of the bed). But even if they are downstairs (where they normally sleep, they have never barked to get us up. TBH they are c r ap guard dogs, friend came over at about 1am was knocking on windows etc to wake us up and the dogs hadnt moved.
 
At 6.30 the skinny mongrel likes to sigh heavily, fishily (thank you Fish4Dogs!) and directly into my face, in disappointment that I am still malingering in bed and we are missing all the best bunnies.

He did try and hint that 5.30-6am would be a better time but has learnt that phrase "B****r off Alfie"
 
I don't know what time my dog wakes up - I sleep like the dead (literally, my alarm is a CD player on full volume and even then I have been known to sleep through it!) so he never wakes me up. Sometimes he is up before me and others I have to shove him off my feet so I can go put the kettle on!
 
I drag Betsy out of her crate at 6am on work days, as soon as she is back from her sleep she is asleep again.

On days off she will happily sleep the day away. I didnt wake up till 11am on monday and ran downstairs in a panic about the dog being in her crate too long. I still had to drag her out of it to go for a pee. Lazy creature.
 
Our 12 week old JRT pup sleeps downstairs in her open crate in the kitchen. I am usually up at 7 and she is still very dozy and reluctant to get up to do a wee outside. She has a last outside visit about 10.30pm and is making it through the night without any accidents. I sooo hope this continues..... I feel like it's all been rather easy and trouble is just round the corner!

Can't believe how many of you sleep with dogs on your bed - I love the idea of us all being together but I know the reality will be dirt, hair, smells, noisy dreams and fidgeting and getting early wake up calls ( i suppose thats no different to my oh then!) so no dogs upstairs rule or am I just a naiive first time dog owner to whom the inevitable will happen?!?? ;-D
 
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