How do you get a puppy to sleep in. My black lab is 8 months old and since we got her 3 months ago she wakes up at 6-30 to 7-00 and won't go back to sleep until she has had a walk and had her breakfast. Any idea's or will I just have to accept that she is an early riser.

If you go to her when she wakes up, she'll carry on doing it. Do what I do, and go back to bed afterwards :)

I agree with Dave, what habits you get into now will be harder to break later.
Go back to bed.

She'd fit into my house quite well :D With a hubby who wakes up for work at 04:30, it's considered a weekend sleep-in to wake at 6am :D :D :D :D

She's associating her morning 'wees' with eating, so it's time to break that habit :rolleyes: :( So start splitting them further apart from one another. It will take some time and patience though. ;)

First figure out if it's her tummy or her bladder waking her up. If she's more interested in going outside first, it's probably her bladder. Not much you can do about that except to perhaps let her out later at night, or restrict water in the last 45 minutes before bed.

It sounds as if her tummy clock is going off as soon as she comes in the door, so start reducing her food that she 'insists' on eating. If she looks at you for more, just say 'Come on- back to bed' and leave.

Put off the larger amount until later on in the day. Soon you could just give her a biscuit and head her back to bed. Or you could possibly give her a few bites at night. Either way, its something in her tummy :)

hth and you get some sleep soon :)
toodles

we work on the budgie theory in our house! because murphs sleeps in a crate in the conservatory it gets light and wakes him up -so we cover him over and he sleeps till about 8 and is quite happy in there till after 9 when the kids have gone to school
good luck
Liz ;)

I Just let the old man get up and I stay in bed. He always says he cant get back to sleep anyway (but I dont have that problem) :D :D