Our pup is now 5 months old and seems to find it impossible to sleep past 6am. This morning it was 5.35am (yawn!). He doesn't need the toilet as he has his last wee around midnight, he just seems to want human company and play! He is always asleep by 8.30pm and we find it difficult to keep him up beyond then, although I have tried. Is this fairly normal and will he start to sleep later as he gets older? (I'm seriously missing my sleep now!)
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? I remember the shattering tiredness and the tyranny of having to get up with Molly when she wanted. Trying to keep her awake so she would sleep later didn't work, she was no pleasure to have around. She now gets up when we do at about 8.00 am The good news is that it is about to get much better. Like the biting it is a stage that they seem to need to go through.
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? At 17 weeks, my pups get up at around 7am every day. If they wake earlier needing the loo, I put them back in their crate and tend to be able to get an extra half hour, wheee! Keeping them up late doesn't seem to make any difference to what time they wake up. We were out until 1am with them last night - dirty stop-outs - but they still woke at 7!
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? All depends on what time one of us stays up until, if we go to bed early ( around 10 ish ) they both want out by 6.30 in the morning, but if its late, they will happily snooze until 8ish Sam is usually more eager to go out for a wee whereas terrier Millie will hang on until she is bursting, especially when its cold or raining :
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? 4.30am she wakes up and has breakfast with my husband before he heads off to work, then she comes back to bed and gets up again with me at 8amish and has a second breakfast. We are joined by Betty Chihuahua for the second breakfast but she looks absolutely disgusted at 4.30am when Elsie first gets up LOL
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? We were lucky, Riley was an unexpected addition to our family and we went on a previously booked holiday for two weeks when Riley was about 11 weeks old. We came back to a dog that stayed in bed til 7! The two people we left him with had dogs so he had company until they got up. Obi spaniel has learnt quickly with company too and after a shaky start now he's 19 weeks and he's fine as long as you let him out for a wee no later than 7 he'll happily go back to his crate until we come down to give our daughter breakfast at 8. They really do learn from other dogs I think but they all get there in the end ;D
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? Since the clocks changed, Harley is usually up now at 8.30/9am on a weekend. It used to be an hour later at least! During the week, I have to physically push her out of bed at 8am so I can get ready for work!
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? Holly wakes up at about 06:30. We wake up at about 06:30:01 when she lands between us on the bed, ready to start a new day
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? [quote author=Tomal link=topic=8995.msg128381#msg128381 date=1417768655] Our pup is now 5 months old and seems to find it impossible to sleep past 6am. This morning it was 5.35am (yawn!). He doesn't need the toilet as he has his last wee around midnight, he just seems to want human company and play! He is always asleep by 8.30pm and we find it difficult to keep him up beyond then, although I have tried. Is this fairly normal and will he start to sleep later as he gets older? (I'm seriously missing my sleep now!) [/quote] Oh I feel your pain ! That was me at 5 months (and 6 & 7 months!) until we allowed her to sleep upstairs with us! Maisie would wake at 5am ish, not want to go out for a wee, and would not settle again. She now wakes up at 5am and hops onto our bed and sleeps until we get up in the week at 7am. I even had an 8am last weekend!!!
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? [quote author=Hollysdad link=topic=8995.msg128480#msg128480 date=1417793881] Holly wakes up at about 06:30. We wake up at about 06:30:01 when she lands between us on the bed, ready to start a new day [/quote] We looked after my sister's old Staffie once and he had to sleep in the bedroom with us. He'd do the same as Holly every morning and land, without fail, right on my other half's jewel sack. All four and a half stone of him. It was a rather rude awakening for him, but it started my day with a good laugh
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? Miss Bella sleeps on the bed with us : and as I've mentioned before she is a moaner/groaner in her sleep...so the first few weeks it was everytime she moaned in her sleep (usually while repositioning) it would wake me up, and out we would go for a potty. She also had a UTI, so was desperate and prone to accidents, so if she woke...we went FAST for the door. Now that the UTI is resolved, and she is blessedly a few weeks older (12.5 weeks), she is sleeping better... ??? Or maybe I'm just so exhausted I don't hear her every time she moans in the night. She has been down to one potty break in the middle of the night for a week or so - but the last couple of nights (which will now be jinxed I'm sure since I'm posting it! : ) I haven't gotten up in the middle of the night with her, and it's only been early early morning that she wakes up and needs to potty. Our general routine is for my alarm to go off about 5:30 and I hit the snooze repeatedly until about 6 - 6:15 if I can manage...but of course Bella hears the alarm : We get up, she goes potty and then breakfast and play time...I try and spend 20ish minutes with her before my shower and get ready time...into the crate she goes...and throws a hissy fit when I head for the shower. It's just bratty childhood rebellion....she wants to play...not be stuffed in a box. I've tried to give her back to hubby in bed...but she wants to play....and wont settle. So it usually ends up she barks and carrys on until she is hollered at repeatedly by hubby....and he finally relents and goes to lay on the couch where he can growl at her to be quiet... sometimes he lets her out, sometimes she has to stay in...it's not a method I approve of (the yelling at her and using mean intimidation to get her to be quiet) but she is OUR dog, and he spends as much time with her as I do....I'm the trainer and provider of meals and play time....he is the babysitter. Of interest to note (and sorry for the hijack here!) but she is quiet in her crate during the day with daddy at the winery, and she likes to go into her crate in the evening with a treat....it's only the morning that she throws a hissy fit. ??? She wants to play and be awake with her humans....not stuffed in a box. Too bad for her that her humans are not morning people.... :-[
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? [quote author=Hollysdad link=topic=8995.msg128480#msg128480 date=1417793881] Holly wakes up at about 06:30. We wake up at about 06:30:01 when she lands between us on the bed, ready to start a new day [/quote] ;D ;D ;D Well done Holly. Very conscientious.
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? When I wake them, about 7.30-8.00am. Tuppence's first thought is always BREAKFAST!
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? 6.30 on weekdays, 7.30 at weekends. Sometimes at weekends we have let her out for a pee and then put her straight back in while we have a lie in. She used to complain about this but she has since realised it gets her nowhere. .[quote author=snowbunny link=topic=8995.msg128389#msg128389 date=1417770605] Keeping them up late doesn't seem to make any difference to what time they wake up. We were out until 1am with them last night - dirty stop-outs - but they still woke at 7! [/quote] I would agree that bedtime doesn't affect what time they wake up particularly but I do find Inca is really sleepy all day if she has had a late night. Luckily this normally coincides with how I'm feeling! 8)
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? Benson is up and wanting to play at 6.00- 6.30am, he is FULL of beans, prancing around fetching toys, trying to wake Casper who would happily snooze until about 8am if Benson would let him....
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? There seems a wide range of wake up times then! Any time after 6.30am would be greeted with great enthusiasm by myself at the moment! I'll keep my fingers crossed that he starts to sleep a little bit later as he gets older.
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? [quote author=Incastinker link=topic=8995.msg128537#msg128537 date=1417805087] 6.30 on weekdays, 7.30 at weekends. Sometimes at weekends we have let her out for a pee and then put her straight back in while we have a lie in. She used to complain about this but she has since realised it gets her nowhere. .[quote author=snowbunny link=topic=8995.msg128389#msg128389 date=1417770605] Keeping them up late doesn't seem to make any difference to what time they wake up. We were out until 1am with them last night - dirty stop-outs - but they still woke at 7! [/quote] I would agree that bedtime doesn't affect what time they wake up particularly but I do find Inca is really sleepy all day if she has had a late night. Luckily this normally coincides with how I'm feeling! 8) [/quote] Hah, definitely! They were very snoozy yesterday
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? [quote author=Tomal link=topic=8995.msg128561#msg128561 date=1417812526] There seems a wide range of wake up times then! Any time after 6.30am would be greeted with great enthusiasm by myself at the moment! I'll keep my fingers crossed that he starts to sleep a little bit later as he gets older. [/quote] Once you know that their bladders can cope it's much easier. Simply ignore them 'till YOUR get up time, they soon get the message, as long as you are consistent
Re: What time does your lab wake up in the morning? Actually had to wake Inca up at 7.30 this morning. Bodes well as I have a Christmas party to go to tonight so hopefully she will be kind on me in the morning!
