During the Summer the heat dictates I have to get Dexter out for his morning walk very early ...it starts getting light at 5.30am ,so he'd wake up then and as I'm a pretty natural early riser that was fine. When it's Winter ,it's dark until 6.30 am( hurray,big hopes of a lie in!)......at 5.15am every morning without fail....the whine starts,not awfully loud but to let me know he's awake...at 5.30 there is alway 1....sometimes 2 little wuffs....it's still pitch black outside,no birds singing,house in total silence and darkness...it's puzzled me....surely his body clock can't be that accurate? I cracked it this morning,the golf course maintenance vehicles start at 5.15 am....he obviously associates the noise they make with my appearance in the Summer !they are amazing aren't they? Anybody else got any time keeping examples?it fascinates me x
Re: Alarm Call! Yup, OH's alarm goes off at 6a.m. every weekday. Come the weekend, we get the little wuffs at 6 a.m. just to let me know I'm falling behind schedule (this is the spaniel, not Brew). Fortunately they are quite happy to run around the garden and then come back upstairs with me for a lazy start... Can't work out how he knows. Street lights aren't going off here until about 8.30 a.m. at the moment, so it's still proper dark. My next door neighbour has under 5s though, so I think it's possible he hears them / sees their lights come on early?? Clare
Re: Alarm Call! not the morning alarm,...when mark is due home from work,jasper is in the window waiting for him,oh if he is late home from work, he is up down up down
Re: Alarm Call! My GSP always knows when it is 9pm, Bonio time, I don't know how she does it as no body language from me, too busy typing!
Re: Alarm Call! Does anyone else have fun when the clocks go back an hour? My two still tip up for tea bang on the dot at 6pm - but hey, it's only 5pm. Weeks of moving the feeding time slot forward by 5 minutes every day it tow until we get back to 6pm. They are certainly creatures if habit. Like Clare, I get up at 6am during the week and always desperate for a long lie at the weekend.....however... My 2 yr old lab starts the wake up call from 5.45 onwards and if I make it until 7am before I have to get up I've done really well. My older dog, who is 7, will happily sleep until I chose to surface. Oh.. To only have one sensible pooch.
Re: Alarm Call! Not to the exact time but certainly to a noise .... all my dogs over the years have learnt the sound of old Brit bikes coming through the village and to ignore Jap ones. (We are builders of old any-make Brit bikes. My Hubby enjoys turning boxes of bits and rusty frames into bikes fit for use again)
Re: Alarm Call! Riley certainly knows when to expect my OH home from work and recognises all our various vehicles over the last 2 and a half years. My husband changes his cars almost as often as his socks and he never has only one!
Re: Alarm Call! That's funny about Dexter and the golf carts ;D As long as we are in bed Obi will sleep in till the sun is well and truly over the yard arm.
Re: Alarm Call! Bless Dex - up and at 'em! Charlie is usually flat on his back in his bed when I get down, and demands 3 or 4 tummy rubs before he'll shift outside for a pee...if he is really, really lively, he'll be lying in his armchair (when he had one, it's been confiscated now due to jumping risk) and will hop down and roll over on his mat for his tummy rubs. Likes his morning tummy rubs, does Charlie.... ;D ;D ;D
Re: Alarm Call! Did you need to put morning in there? Surely tummy rubs are required at all times of the day? 8)
Re: Alarm Call! i agree barbara, jasper is sat at the side of me, having tummy rubs , sorry he don't get them first thing in a morning off me, i need my coffee fix, he does get them off my son before he goes to work ;D
Re: Alarm Call! [quote author=Stacia link=topic=3703.msg41758#msg41758 date=1387306500] My GSP always knows when it is 9pm, Bonio time, I don't know how she does it as no body language from me, too busy typing! [/quote] My two are as accurate as an atomic clock. 30 minutes from now kaiser will start to panic that I'm never ever coming to feed him again. They even know that I come out later on Sundays Creatures of habit and routine for sure
Re: Alarm Call! My hubby's alarm clock goes off at 7am weekdays, guaranteed on a weekend Harley will come and nudge me around 7-7.15am for breakfast. She always settles back down after a wee and food until around 9-10am She also waits for hubby to come home at 6pm as she sits at the front door and will pace the hallway if he us late. When the clicks went back it did take a while to retrain her as she kept getting up at 6am
Re: Alarm Call! Ditto. ;D No other lights here, or golf carts, to act as triggers. Bus doesn't come until 6.35. Come 6.15 though, she is through to the bottom of our bed, "wheek wheek" "let me up on the bed mum". Same time in the evening, she watches me like a hawk - any small move, she is there, glued to me until I put her dinner down. Yep, accuracy of an atomic clock her too. 8)
