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Any ideas on how to stop a whinging greyhound every Saturday and Sunday morning? During the week we get up around 6am to go to work.... so every Saturday and Sunday Hoover greyhound starts whinging and squeaking in the kitchen at 6am!!!!

We have tried ignoring him, telling him off, letting him out so he has free run of the house.... and he still sits outside the bedroom door and whines (we live in a bungalow). This is after letting him out in the garden, so he isn't asking to go out, he is just a complete mummy's boy who can't be away from us!

He is 8 now, I've had him 3 years and he seems to be worse since I got together with my BF a year ago.... I know it is a form of separation anxiety, he is fine when we go to work, fine when we shut him in the kitchen to dry off when he comes back from a walk etc etc
 
It will be interesting if anyone has some useful advice. I think his bodyclock is just primed for 6am and he doesn't understand weekends!
 
Chiffy said:
It will be interesting if anyone has some useful advice. I think his bodyclock is just primed for 6am and he doesn't understand weekends!
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I think you may be right there :D I dont mind too much, it does stress the boyfriend somewhat.... but then the dogs did come before him :p :) :)
 
Yep he raced for 5 1/2 years and came straight to me from the trainer - he is probably the most institutionalised greyhound I've had, and being a dog he is a lot more clingy and needy than the bitches. It is odd because he was chucked in at the deep end when he came to me and settled in really well, but he has always hated change (when I move house etc).

I've been in this place for over a year now, so I would have thought he would have settled by now :)
 
I don't work (so get up a little later now).

Daisy is like clockwork in the mornings - 8.15am. I couldn't have a lie in if I wanted to.
 
Ours will whine if she can't be with us. She learnt to open the doors within weeks of being with us.......

She sleeps in our room now, no point shutting her out, she lets herself in!!

No help I'm afraid!!!
 
The bedroom is ridiculously small unfortunately, so he would have to be on the bed - he is 35.5kg (around 5 1/2 stone) so this is quite intrusive :D :D He does seem happy once he has come in and said hello to me, so maybe the answer is just to let him in, let him say hello, then he can take himself off to the living room (which he does quite happily) and we can go back to sleep :)
 
im lucky in that mine happily lie in till 10, 11 and even 12 without a peep. If I get up to make a cup of tea I will let them out, and then put them back in their beds and go back to bed, If I dont make a cup of tea they just stay in bed till i do get up. Some days we are up at 5.45, others at 8 and once a week about 10 so I guess they never have a set time. How about getting up, letting him out and giving him a pigs ear to take to bed? may help break the habit?
 
Mine is a whippet and he starts at 4am, 6am if I'm lucky. I just lift the covers and let him in the bed. Is there any chance hes cold? Mine is, but WILL NOT wear PJs. He rips them off if we try and make him, but when I let him in the bed he always feels cold! We have extended the time to 6am most of the time because he has a very plush bed, a thin fleece and then an old fashioned knitted blanket, the sort that is mainly big holes if that makes sense?!
 
Thats a fab idea Bosworth (wish I'd thought of it earlier!) but sadly he had a dental on Friday and now only has 2 teeth left (his lower canine teeth) so no more pigs ears or whole rabbits for him :( :( :( Maybe I could try a Kong for him, he could still lick it :D

Definitely not cold FrankieCob, that was my original thought too but lately we have been leaving the heating on to try and counteract the ridiculous mildew problem we have, so the house is very warm and cosy 24 hours a day :)
 
Off topic, sorry. About the mildew, I bought a dehumidifier (not a compressor one) this year and I think it has saved us a fortune in heating bills and seems to be helping my bitch with her mite allergy.
 
planete said:
Off topic, sorry. About the mildew, I bought a dehumidifier (not a compressor one) this year and I think it has saved us a fortune in heating bills and seems to be helping my bitch with her mite allergy.
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Definitely no need to apologise planete, the mildew is driving us mad! Lucky for us we rent our bungalow, so the landlady is sending a contractor round (again) to look at the problem - we think it stems from a leak in the roof which wasn't repaired properly, it was meant to be fixed last year but as soon as we got to autumn/winter the problem came back - lovely black mildew all over the bedroom ceiling. We open windows, never dry clothes etc indoors, have the heating on a lot and it is still there! The landlady is lovely fortunately, so I shall suggest she buys us a dehumidifier if the contractor can't solve the problem :)
 
He sounds like mine! A big soft lump that likes his routine, he is normally up anywhere between 6 and 7am and will whine to come up on the bed, once he decides to get up he'll whine until we go somewhere as I normally do on a morning (either work or a walk), the only way to make him have a lie in longer than that is to go for a very long walk on an evening to wear him out! I wouldn't change him as he's my sidekick conditioned to the routine :)
 
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