Now the lighter mornings are here Molly comes scratching at my bedrrom door at 5.30. Not so bad in the week as my alarm goes off at 5.45. But the weekend lay ins are a thing of the past! I'm dreading the very light mornings that are to come....last summer was Mollys first summer & she wasn't so bad, but now she's that little bit older she doesn't need the sleep so much (only 8 1/2 hrs per night!). I close all the blinds/curtains downstairs, but I think it's the birds chearping that wakes her up.
I anyone else up with the birds at the weekend??

Well mine only sleep 8 hours too, bed at 11pm or later and up at 7 to 7.30am.

Yep I'm always up bright and early!! I'm an early riser anyway though so the dogs have got into their little routine so now I couldn't have a lie in if I tried!!

I'm up early but not bright! So at w/ends I'm back from the fields by 7am, roll on winter for a lay in! (I hope)

I'm up with the birds and in mid-summer that can be 3:30. Dog however, knows to stay in his bed until our alarm goes off at 6:15. But then he jumps into bed with us and would happily snooze for another hour. :) Puppy has other ideas though :-D

Our dog just gets up when we do. Weekdays I get up at 6am, feed him and let him out, he then goes back to bed when I leave the house at 7am and gets up again when the next person gets up.  At the weekend we get up anywhere between 6:30 and 8:30 and he does the same :)

Mine are much the same - our getting up time is theirs :) :) As they sleep downstairs I have no idea what actual time they wake up - I expect that they just snooze until we appear :)

Daisy

Well, the truth is my girl is so good, she would wait until she hears me get up, at the weekend I may not rise until 7.30am or even 8am if I'm really pushing it, but I do go to bed after midnight at the weekend so I guess it balances out.

The rest of the week I am up at 6am as I love a nice coffee followed by a nice fresh walk before anyone else is up and about, it's my relaxing and thinking time, and I get to see much more wildlife, so I am always awoken by the birds and up and about.

Can you just let Molly out to the toilet and then will she let you go back to sleep again?  When she gets older she may come to realise if you perhaps like me change your going to bed time she will recognise weekends are different to the rest of the week and let you have a lie in. :-)

All sleep in my room.
The two younger ones get up either when kids get up at 7ish, or when they make too much noise!!!
If I am lucky the sleep till 9!!!!
And I am lazy as seeing as my kids are up I open the door and let them out and my eldest lets them outside and back in again!!!!!
Gemma on the other hand!!!!!!!!
I can get up at 11(very very rare!!!) and she will stay up there at least half an hour after!!!!
When I get up in the week I have to physically pull her up and walk her downstairs otherwise she would not get up!!!!
She has been known to stay in my room til 1pm when I have been up at 10!!!!!
Lea :)

I do let Molly in the garden when she wakes me up just incase she's busting for a wee. Sometimes I can get her back to bed for a cuddle, but for the past couple of days she's been well awake...walking around the bedroom floor on her tummy,pinching my trainers, anything to say get up NOW!
I've tried to take her to bed with me at w/ends but she will sleep so so close to me I'm on the edge of a king size bed by the morning! I love her to bits, so I try & find a method that suits us both!
It's bedtime for the both of us now!

Well normally my adult dogs just get up when we get up which is nice, but lay ins are a thing of the past having my kids around!! :D
And since having the pups I am up at 6am to feed them and change their bedding, its like having 6 new born babies!!!

My girls hate been woken up early and will always have a lie in given the chance :D

They have just had a banana for breakfast have both been out for a pee and are now back in bed snoring away :D Lucky things !!

mine wakes up between 8 and 9,comes and gives us a lick then goes back to bed if we dont stir, i normally get up soon after and he snoozes  till i put my shoes on. he would snooze till midday if allowed.  i do keep him busy all day  so i guess he needs his kip.!

I think we're pretty lucky then that Roxy gets up when we do.....that might be 6.30 or 10am - although when we get up late it means that we've gone to bed late, which means Roxy had her last pee late.

She's a very flexible dog bless her.

When Kez was a puppy he was just like this, barked at the crack of dawn to get us up so he could go out and play. However thankfully when he got older he gets up when i wake about 7.00 and sometimes I have a job getting him to go out. What helped me.....he used to sleep in the kitchen but when he grew out of puppyhood we let him sleep in the lounge thats when he stopped getting me up

Albert my youngest has me up at 5 oclock every morning without fail!  he has even started creating (and boy does not create!!) 5 minutes before my alarm is due to go off at 5! 

No long lies in our house!!

Jill

Gosh, I feel very lucky...

Earl sleeps on his blanket on our sofa.  DH gets up at about 7am and it's all Earl can do to open one eye, half heartedly wag a tail and then go straight back to sleep.  I'm not normally about until 7.45am (poor sleeper right now due to ever growing bump) - and I can normally persuade Earl to get off the sofa and out into the garden around then.

He goes to bed about 10/10.30pm when I do.

Perhaps he's just a particularly lazy hound.

Helen

Mine will sleep till  lunchtime if undisturbed ...

Think yourself lucky it's only a bit of scratching! I gave a home to a donkey last year & called him 'Elvis' for good reason. The last thing this 'Gentleman' said when he dropped him off was 'He is a really quiet Donkey'. How wrong could anyone be!! Bless him though it's only when he sees anyone, he is soooooooooo friendly. Unfortunately a neighbour gets up at 5.30 every morning & has been feeding him carrots over her fence. What's a donkey to do under these circumstances. I have asked her to stop feeding him because you can hear him miles away if the wind is in the right direction!!

PS. My little terrier cross has lie in's now she has reached 3 1/2. She was always up early, but can't be bothered now, it does get better.

Molly and Freya will generally just sleep til we get up. Bless them, bet my baby won't be as good as them :(

Mine don't get up......lazy pair!

My Dobe starts to stir at around 8, although will generally snooze until about 9 at the latest (but if I do have to get up much earlier, and leave the stairgate on the bedroom door open, he will be up and about as well, even if it's 5am!). He is then awake all day long, unless shut behind the stairgate with relative quiet (always thinks there is something more exciting going on!) and then he will sleep for about 1 hour, 2 at the absolute maximum! He is good in the evenings though and is lightly snoozing from about 7.30 and fast asleep by 9. Then I wake him at about 11 for a final toilet break and a quick snack before going back up to bed :P

My dogs wake up by 9 if they havn't had their breakfast but generally dose until about 9.30 and then my vizsla gets restless for her walk. My mongrel will sleep all morning but becomes restless in the afternoon if she doesn't get a walk until the afternoon (on the rare occasion.)

I get up at 7.30 and go let the dogs out, this is far too early for my Kerrie and Gypsy who would rather stay in bed! But my pup Brody would prefer get up earlier! Lol!
Really with mine it's been as they mature they seem to not mind getting up a bit later.

Usually between 11am and 1pm although she has been known to stay upstairs in bed until 2 or 3pm.

She doesn't like being disturbed in the mornings!:rolleyes:

At the weekend, when I can lie in bed as long as I want, Roxy will wake me with kisses around 6 to go out, then we both go back to bed.  Mid week, I have to wake her at 7, which is my getting up time. :rolleyes: Sometimes I'll leave her in bed until after I've had my shower, just depends on whether OH is out of it first.

Im up at 5.40am every day, but at the weekend its about 7ish:)

cant wait for missie to reply on this one......lolololol :)

So typical, Molly woke me up at 5.30 sat & sun, but I got her onto my bed for another hour . But this morning (a work day) she woke me with a quick lick at 5 & low & behold snuggled on my lap & I had trouble getting her up at 6.45! I think she's got her weekdays & w/e's back to front!