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Post by Lisa on Sept 9, 2004 5:47:22 GMT -5
 Personally has to be one of the ones that makes me giggle constantly and usually has new owners pulling out their hair within thirty seconds  Think about it logically why is your dog having you up at 5am?? Its because these dogs have spent most of their lives kenneled and usual first time turf out in a morning for a racing hound is between 5 - 6 am! There is alot of work to be done around the place during the course of the day so carers have to be there early. Key tip here is to make the room as dark as possible for as long as possible! The sun is blasting through the light curtains and the birds are twittering and the dog is up and ready for a pee, walk, breakfast. Sometimes hanging a sheet behind the curtains is all that is needed. Most dogs are settled into their kennel after last turn out around 8 - 9 pm so by the time 5 - 6 am has arrived they are bursting and waiting to perform. Try reversing the routine slightly, stay up longer at first with your new hound, if you do the last turn out around 11 - 12 pm for a week, teem that with a blanket stopping light coming in to early the dog should be able to go to 7 - 8 am without disturbing you for a break. The later you do the last turn out the later they are liable to wake you in the morning. After a week drop the time of last turn out by around 15 minutes, then a week later another 15. The dog will soon get use to the pattern in the home rather than the pattern in the kennels, sadly for the Gap dogs its the pattern with some of the fosterers aswell because when their hubby's are turfed out to work (not mentioning any names Anna *snigger*) the husbands turn the dogs out at 5am, when hubby leaves the dogs nip back off to bed and snuggle up to Mum. Again common sense and logic is often all that is needed, think dog After about a month to two months of new greyhound ownership, I usually get a phone call to say I get up at 7am and I have to force the lazy bugger out of bed between 9 and 10
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Post by Alysons00 on Sept 12, 2004 18:33:08 GMT -5
I never knew that Lisa... But that would explain what Tilly the greyound was up to when she was here.... She use to wake me a six on the dot every morning by running round the bed room... rooo roooing whilst chucking random items of mine around the room... I just hid deeper under the duvet screaming nooo leave me alone its too early..... untill she found something of mine to chuck round that she really shouldnt have, then I had to get up and let her out... Aly xx |
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Post by gazehound24 on Sept 17, 2004 7:46:12 GMT -5
With Labradors you will find it is because their tummies start RUMBLING at 5am!! ;D. The command of 'bed' soon sorts that out (for at least another hour) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2004 8:48:14 GMT -5
My dog has decided now we must now wake at 4am  Any ideas why Dan has decided that between 4 & 5 am he will wake up, stand over me breathing in my face & when I ignore him he cries either in the bedroom or goes downstairs to cry. It's not to go to the loo because when he 1st started doing it I took him out & he maybe did a wee but nothing urgent. He always was one for waking early say 5-6, but as we wake up at 6ish weekdays it wasn't that a big deal. I hate to say it but it coincides with Amos being here, at first I thought it was because Dan was anxious about Amos sleeping in the same bedroom but then he did it the other night when Amos decided to sleep downstairs. I have tried ignoring him but believe me he will not stop crying & I'm worried I'm going to ignore him when he does need to go out. This morning I got him up on the bed & he settled so do you think he is feeling insecure & any solutions anyone?  |
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Post by Lisa on Dec 16, 2004 9:08:17 GMT -5
I definatly think that someone is being Mummy's little pansy How would I handle it? I wouldnt speak to any of them for the next week then wuffy boy couldnt be worrying that anyone is more favoured over him. Allowing him up on the bed insue's quietness because brat pants is getting what he wants. Personally someone would be having the crate set back up in the bedroom for a few nights, that way he has to settle and cant get up and wander groaning!! Failing that get his sister to ruff him up a bit If he wants to be insecure give him the security of the crate and let him get over it himself. Can just see poor Amos lying on the sofa rolling his eyes, and then laughing at him behind his back.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2004 9:23:31 GMT -5
Pants I haven't got my crate at the moment, I lent it out  He's such a dork, I must admit when he got up on the bed he was chattering away for about 10 mins so he was well pleased with himself. I wish he was so concerned with being close when we are out on walks |
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Post by Lisa on Dec 16, 2004 9:26:16 GMT -5
Any chance you can get the crate back? Im meeting you on Saturday and could have lent you one but I dont have one big enough for man mountain to slip into He definatly needs a bit of time out and to learn to become more independant again he is such a wooly
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2004 6:03:41 GMT -5
Well since rehoming the hoooge doughnut dog beds we have had quiet nights so I think it was to do with who was sleeping on what as Amos often slept on the hoooogest bed. Now they all have same sized duvets to kip on. So imagine my joy at 2am this morning when I was awoken by the sound of running water aka Dan standing in the middle of the bedroom having a p!ss I am pretty confident he did this beacuse Amos was sleeping on the duvet that Dan normally sleeps on. Wierdo, Dan is fine when Ellie sleeps on his duvet but obviously not Amos |
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Post by Lisa on Dec 22, 2004 6:09:06 GMT -5
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Post by Jane and Sara on Sept 3, 2008 6:39:05 GMT -5
My new little girl wakes at 5am too. I let the dogs out, feed them and go back to bed until about 7am then she starts barking and I have to get up even if I can have a lie-in because I worry about the noise and the neighbours. Also, as she is only just house-trained I can't distinguish between a - 'I have to pee now or I'll go on the carpet' bark and a 'lets get up and go to the park' bark!
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Post by jennyp on Aug 21, 2009 1:44:54 GMT -5
I have suffered this for the past few years but only in the summer months. Light mornings I thought as I yelled at them from my bed. No - turns out we had a resident hedgehog and that was the time he retired to bed next door by digging out the gravel to slip under the fence with associated "huffing". That would be the gravel I put back every morning muttering about the dogs digging in the same place ! ! !
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Post by vickyb on Aug 21, 2009 2:15:54 GMT -5
I have suffered this for the past few years but only in the summer months. Light mornings I thought as I yelled at them from my bed. No - turns out we had a resident hedgehog and that was the time he retired to bed next door by digging out the gravel to slip under the fence with associated "huffing". That would be the gravel I put back every morning muttering about the dogs digging in the same place ! ! ! least you found out who the culprit was |
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Post by mcbilly on Nov 7, 2009 12:23:49 GMT -5
hiya well we have two rescue greyhounds, one never raced and one raced and the difference really shows. As said up above when she joined us we would do last garden run at 12 and we would be woken at 6am. We soon worked out it wasnt for the toilet or food but to join us in bed. Let them in the bedroom that buys you another 3hrs kip!!
Now the winter weathers come there beds been moved to a warmer area - they have there own bedroom and a double bed with two quilts. Spoilt i know but it reduces the time they wake us up. Now winters here shes like wayhay 3am time to get up, i have no idea whats started this. We have even tried to put em to bed with there coats on to see if that makes a difference. None found yet and then last night our little gem of a girl spent all night singing loudly. argh...
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Post by bruzer on Jun 10, 2010 13:42:20 GMT -5
Oh boy!!! I must have the laziest greyhound in the country. If I am on the early shift at work, I am told that he only comes down stairs around 11:30 am.......... and that's just for a pee and to see what's in his bowl
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Post by footlong8 on Jan 15, 2011 6:04:26 GMT -5
had my hound over a year and she has always been as good as gold... until now! around 3am and she starts whining .... and whining and pacing and whining... non stop! the only thing that works is letting her into the bedroom or me sleeping on the sofa in the living room with her. she simply will not revert to her old routine. driving me craaazy!!! david www.barkingfeeders.co.uk |
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