Who needs an alarm clock?!...morning routines!

[metatron]

"Alarm Clock," indeed!

Ajax will usually crash in his own bed most of the night, but somehow and sometime in the wee morning hours he'll hop up with me (and procede to take over the entirety of the bed!). Usually I'll stir a bit in between dreams and mumble something along the lines of, "Unnngh.. Ajax? When did you get up here? Uuunnngh...." - and then go promptly back to sleep.

But rest assured that right around seven o'clock, I'll get a wet nose and tongue in my face and along with a frustrated huff & puff from the side of the bed. That, or he'll start nudging my feet from the foot of the bed. Or, he'll grab his old blanket from his bed, drag it up on *my* bed, and stick it in my face, wanting to play.

Always something to get me up and going in the morning - I just want my last thirty minutes of precious sleep before the alarm on my cell phone starts going off!

 

[Coopster2208]

We have a bell on our bedroom door, at approximately 4:30-5:00 it rings, then Cooper sits there and whimpers while one of us pull ourselves out of bed, and stumble to the back door. While we are doing this, Cooper runs into our daughter's room, and checks on her, and if the cats in there, give her her morning exercise. Then he goes out for #1 and comes back and trots back into the bedroom onto the bed, and lays back down until about 6:00 (when the alarm clock goes off). When it goes off, he just lifts up his head like "you gonna get that?"

 

[TX_State_K8T]

My Hurley is a creature of habit too! She wakes up every morning about 7, maybe a few minutes before. I let her out in the back and she takes care of business, and promplty pushes the door open with her nose to let herself back in. Then she walks straight to the food bowl and just stares at me. If Im not moving fast enough for her she lets me know with a few yelps! After a full belly, she will normally chew on a toy for about 39 minutes and then she's passed out again! If I could only get her to sleep in in the mornings and not as much during the day, but she is worth every minute of it! She is only 9 weeks old, will she start sleeping later as she gets older, or will she stick to her routine?

Katie
Hurley Belle- 12/11/05, brindle & white, docked, floppy!

 

[beausmommy]

I guess Beau is just the exception to the rule. My boys don't get up until I get out of bed and ask them if they need to go potty. It doesn't matter if that's at 7am or 11am. They don't budge until I do. They run to the back door and wait to go out. Ocassionally, I leave them out while I take a shower, but they usually come right back in and curl up in bed again until it's time for me to go to work...and then they mope to their crates.

 

[Louise501]

beausmommy, you are lucky, I'd love a lie in sometimes, Ruby will sleep after lunch so I get that time at least!

 

[2spoiledpups]

I never realized that dogs could second as an alarm clock until we got our youngest boy Alphie. I have come to believe that he has a small bladder and has to be taken out frequently. Well somehow over the months that we have had him he has decided that 5:30 to 6:00 AM is the ideal time to get up to go outside. I am not a morning person by any means so at first I would ask him to go lay down. He wasn't going to do that so he comes to the bed and whines till I would get up. If that didn't work he would wake up the other two kids and start playing with them so I couldn't sleep with all the rucus. Now he has me trained to get up right away when he comes and paws the bed. So I wonder....who trains who....LOL. Silly puppies!

 

[tank & dozer]

I haven't set my alarm clock since november when we got the boys. Every morning they wake up at 4 am to not go outside but to get on our bed...They sleep in their crate for the majority of the night. By 6:30 7 they start sturring which wakes me up to get up...then they get up around 7 or 7:30 will i am getting ready for work and they go outside...do both 1 & 2 and then inside for breakfast...then a quick play and wrestling session with eachother before i head off to work. Not sure if the wrestling continues when they go into their pen in the garage...it's big enough...If the DH is home they will stay in bed till 9 go figure.

 

[KDozier]

Brutus is just at 13 weeks and he get's up between 6:00 and 6:30 every morning to go outside, he'll come paw at my side of the bed until I get up and take him out then he'll do the #1 and 2 then we come back inside. He'll come in and lay down for a lil bit until it's time for my GF to get up and to work. Then he's up and following her around until she leaves. I work afternoons so i want him to go back to sleep and the only way for me to do that is to put him in the bed with me or if i get up to watch tv he'll climb up on the couch and go to sleep. He just has to be around me when he goes back to sleep. Then after the second sleep time it's time to eat and play until I have to leave for work. Ahh getting up early has never been so much fun

 

[jmj924]

Max wakes me up at 7:15 every single morning. I no longer have a use for my alarm clock. It just collects dust.

 

[Louise501]

Arn't they funny, it seems most of our boxers wake up the same time everyday, and usually very early!