How Long Does Your Golden Sleep?

[djspeed88]

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We have a 10 month old female golden retriever named Allie. It doesn't matter what time we go to bed, she's up at 6:00 a.m. and won't go back into the bedroom and settle down. Does anyone have any suggestions???

[GoldenLover02]

Hunter is 5 months old, and I guess we are very lucky, but we got to bed about 11pm each night and Hunter wakes me or hubby up at 7am each morning to go outside to potty, I always make sure that I talk softly when asking outside, he goes out and does his busniess and then we come back in..and I get back in bed and I tell him to lay back down and he does. I just have a lazy dog..lol

Do you keep things calm when letting him out in the mornings?

Nicole and Hunter

[djspeed88]

Hi - Thanks for your reply. Yes we keep things calm, however, we seen to have a very exhuberant, excitable golden.

[Jo Ellen]

I guess I've been very fortunate with Daisy...she's always been so easy to care for. She will go to sleep when the lights go out, no matter what time it is and she'll let me sleep in the mornings as long as I want to. When she was younger, she would rest her chin on the side of my bed near my head and whimper quietly if I was sleeping too long and she needed to go out. But now, I could sleep til noon and she'd just wait patiently for me wake.

[mybunnyisfunny1]

Ella sleeps about 8 - 9 hours each night.

Do you keep the blinds/curtains open at night? Maybe your dog is used to getting up with the sun now. You could try making it darker in the room your dog stays asleep longer.

Erin

[KCGoldens]

Our puppy goes to bed at 10:30 sharp. If the bedroom door isn't open so he can get in he lets us know about it! :lol
He is up at 6am Sharp. We have trained him to be quite until we are ready to get up. If I sleep in late I get up and walk him at 7am and get him some water. He knows the house rules and will get up on the end of the bed with his chicken nylabone and some toys and keep himself busy until I get up. We tell Thunder "go lay down" and that is his signal to lie quietly so we can finish sleeping! He is really good, I think so long as he is near us he is happy.
We have eastern sliding glass windows, and I usually leave them open with the drapes open so he never confuses the light with time to start going and wake us up! When I am ready to get up I say "lets go" and then BOOM he starts!
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[Paula elya]

I guess I'm lucky too. Molly will let me sleep as long as I want. On weekends I will get up and take her out and go back to bed. But that's not even a certian time that i do that. When I wake a little and realize she should go out I take her. She likes to sleep too. During the week when I'm up at 5:30am, she looks at me like I'm nuts. I do notice if I have a busy weekend and stay up tp late, she will go in my room and go to bad on her own. When I was taking my chemo treatments and slept alot during the day, she would lay with me and sleep. I just love her.:085
Paula

[Gracie]

Beau, who will be a year old next week, tends to follow the natural rhythm of our day...he crashes hard at 9:00pm, that's the time my family starts to wind down and sleeps solid until 6:00am-when everyone rises for the day. He also doesn't nap more than a couple of hours during the day. I've heard that dogs sleep about 12-14 hours a day. If your dog sleeps alot during the day, he's not going to sleep much at night.

It takes some time, but I believe dogs adapt to the schedule of his family. Sometimes you have to be a little firm with them-no partying at midnight, etc., but it should be natural for them to adjust to the "pack's" ways. It just might take a little time.

[SamsGoldens]

<span style="font-family:comic sans ms; color:red;font-size:x-small;">I put Molly and Sadie in their crates anywhere between 9:00-10:00 and they will be quiet until someone goes downstairs. Most of the time someone is up by 7:00-7:30 on the weekend. During the work week, I get them up at 5:00 a.m. to take them out and feed them. When I have to wake them up that time, they're looking at me like I'm crazy for getting them up that early!! <img border=0 src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/laugh.gif" /></span>

[mr loney]

|I have an 18 month old retriver and he will basically sleep as long as we do.If we go back to bed at any point in the day he is quite happy to come back to bed with us.He could sleep for England:lol

[Collett and Charlie]

Charlie and I are kinda pathetic with the whole sleeping thing. I've become use to his noises at night so when he's not in the room with me I don't sleep as good. Then his thing is he will want to go to bed before I'm ready, he will walk down the hall towards our room then walk back and look at me, he'll do that a couple times until he realizes I'm not giving in then he'll come and sleep by my feet. He refuses to go to bed without me. He pretty much lets me sleep as long as I want, but I'm a natural early bird anyway. Occasionally he will come and put his nose in my face to wake me up when he has outside buisness to take care of.

[sweetdreams1963]

My Toby & Zoe Sleep all the time.
I can go to bed at 8:00pm and sleep till 9:00am and they don't move till I get up. I can sleep till 1:00 pm and they will not get up till I get up. How I did it I will never no...:485 There sleeping as I type...

[kencubilo]

Our two girls 10 months old usually start to settle down around 9 PM at night. They usually wake up when I do but I seldom sleep in past 6-7 AM on a day off. However on a working day If the alarm goes off and I don't get up I have two dogs on the bed licking my face and ears to get me up. I have noticed a couple of times that I forgot to turn on the alarm that they still wake me up unless its a weekend. Don't ask me how these dogs know the difference between a day off and working one but they seem to.

[steveportigal]

Brody seems to wake up around 6 most days. It's inconsistent and sometimes he'll sleep more on weekends. When he wakes up he may start walking around, shaking himself (what is the right name for that?), he may come to the bed and "nose" one of us, and if we ignore him, he will make an anxious whimper. We're trying to ignore that and pretend to keep sleeping, and not get up as a "reward."

BTW - he's more than 3, I'm VERY convinced that he does this because he's awake and he wants attention, not because he's in need of the bathroom. He wants us to get up and take him for his walk (well, one of us anyway) because he LOVES TO GO OUTSIDE!

But we'd love some guidance about how to "train" him to not bug us in the morning. We adopted him a few months ago and really I haven't had a decent night's sleep since then and I'm depressed at the thought that I won't ever again.

Like others have posted, our dog will come in and lie down next to the bed and nap any time if we're having a sleep, it's just the early morning thing, and I really do think it's about attention.

Right now he does sleep in our bedroom. I'm sorta tempted to shift him to outside the bedroom door in the hallway for his sleeping spot, but not sure what that would bring on.

Ideas and thoughts appreciated...glad to see this thread here.