Poll: When do your dogs get up in the morning?

[Anonymous]

Trying to figure out what’s typical. Our 12 year old Tibetan terrier is pretty self sufficient. He sleeps where he wants, takes himself out in the backyard, and doesn’t much seem to care whether he eats his breakfast at 6am or 9am.

Our 13 week old lab puppy is in a crate in our bedroom. She sleeps well from about 10:30/11pm through about 6am. Once 6am hits, she whines in her crate and we take her out so she can pee and have her breakfast. We know this is typical for puppies, but it’s tiring! Will this get better as she gets older? Would be great for her to learn from her big brother a bit.

[Anonymous]

That’s actually really good for a puppy. Once they hit five or six months you should start to see more adult sleep patterns.

[Anonymous]

That pee holding from 11pm to 6am is pretty good for a 13 week old lab, but you can always test it. Say, have her do one last pee at 11:30, see whether you can push back her first pee to 6:30. Then do 11pm and 6:30, and then 11pm and 7am... you'll need to be patient, because her pee holding capacity isn't fully mature yet, and she's too young to be allowed to go out whenever she wants.

[Anonymous]

Our 6 month old Lab goes to bed in her crate in the basement family room at 7:30 and on weekends and holidays, I let her out at 8am. She’s not dying to go to the bathroom then but inhales her food. She loooves food anytime.

[Anonymous]

Ours is like a human... up at 5/6 until she was a teenager. Now she sleeps as long as we do.

[Anonymous]

Your puppy is only 13 weeks old! That's REALLY young!

[Anonymous]

Yes, it will get better as she gets older. And yes, as everyone has said, you have it really good right now. That's already a great, long streak for a puppy.

You could try pushing back breakfast if you're wanting to sleep again after 6am. Let the puppy out to pee but make it real simple and unexciting and right back to the crate when you come in. She will probably whine a bit for a few days since she's used to being fed then, but I bet she will catch on quickly.

[Anonymous]

Bed at 1 or 2, up at 930 or 10.

[Anonymous]

few times a night to potty

[Anonymous]

Our dog is 5 and still gets up between 6 and 7 most days, since that is when we get up on work days. Sometimes he'll sleep until until 8 on the weekends, but that's quite rare.

[Anonymous]

Not until I get up and open the door. But puppies are completely different.

[Anonymous]

Our cat wakes us up at 5am, not to pee but to eat. The dog (9yo) sleeps until 9am. Your puppy is still young. It will get better.

[Anonymous]

6 month pup gets really impatient at 7am, which is perfectly reasonable.

[Anonymous]

After my dog hit about 18 months, he can sleep in and not really care about food. Til 10 or so on weekends.

[Anonymous]

Puppies are a whole different thing.

But my 3 yo dog goes out for the last time at about 8:00pm and then truly does not care when he gets up - usually about 8:00am.