Tell me your dogs’ routines

[Kimlek]

Just wondering what other people do with their dogs all day and if you have set routines etc. Thanks!

7am - biscuits while we have a cup of tea in bed.
7.45am - potter and sniff in the garden.
8.30am - school run and walk on the beach with DH.
9.30am - breakfast
9.31am - sleep!
1.00pm - potter and sniff in the garden.
1.30pm - sleep!
4.00pm - walk in the woods
5.15pm - sits on our lane waiting for me to come home
7.00pm - dinner
7.01pm - post dinner madness and frolics
7.20pm - sleep!
8.15pm - comes upstairs and listens to DD's bedtime story
8.30pm - sleep!

He's 11 so sleeping is important to him

Thank you for all of these. Really helpful to know what other people do as we are new to this. Ours (9 month cavapoo) has started barking so wondered if he was bored and I wasn’t doing enough with him but think I am. Every time I let him out for a wee he bolts to the end of the garden and barks. He’s also started barking (gently) in the house if he sees a bird or squirrel etc out of the window.

There's never any harm in adding more enrichment activities to your dog's life. Have you seen the canine enrichment Facebook group? Lots of good ideas there

I have a cocker and he's very barky when there are squirrels and birds about. Basically he wants to chase them.

I have one that barks at everything, more so now she’s old. She has lots of chews and toys and I always have background noise on so she doesn’t bark and every little sound outside.

7am Ddog border collie exuberantly leaps onto the bad and licks my nose if I'm still asleep.

7.30am Trots into DDs room to wake her up for school.

8am Outdoor wandering and smell sniffing

9am Crazy excitement helping me hang out the washing! A highlight in a border collie's day apparently.

11am Chasing/herding blow flies & imaginary birds while DP & I have a cup of tea on the verandah. Repeatedly tosses and catches a large empty plant pot for our entertainment.

12.30pm Helps me eat Asian noodles for lunch.

1.30pm Snoozing and working on his hole digging in the garden.

2pm If very lucky, gets to walk down to the lake and have a swim. If very unlucky, has to endure the indignity of having a brush, or worse still, a bath!!

4pm Starts telling me that it's time to go and play.

5pm Finally gets me to walk out to the paddock and throw tennis balls back and forth. If very lucky, gets to chase the kangaroos away from said paddock.

6pm DINNER TIME!!! Raw meat, dog log, and bone

7pm Humans dinner time, possibility of morsels.

7.30pm Mad indoor frisbee playing trying to get humans involved.

8pm Antisocial sleeping completely ignoring resident humans. Life's tough being a "working dog"!

biteyshark exactly the same here. We’ve got a lot of floor to ceiling windows too so he constantly wants out to chase and bark. He’s 9 months so thought I could train him but no idea how. It’s defo getting worse.

rightsaid yes, I’m a member of the enrichment FB group. It’s good!! I do loads but he still wants out. He’s also started barking from the windows.

For the room mine stays in when I leave him on his own I have put up some cheap window opaque film so he can't see out. This stopped that barking.

When he starts in other rooms I have to move him away from the windows and doors for a short time or if he won't stop he gets moved into another room.

Wake up
Watch us intently until we wake
Jump off our bed
Rush into the back garden
Bark to see if any neighbouring dogs reply
Have a wee
Have breakfast
Have a sleep
Few ball games
Go out for main walk of day
Dentistick
Sleep on sofa
Mid pm start suggesting time for walk
Late pm second walk
5pm tea
Sleep
11pm short walk
Gravy bone or boneo
Bed

All of the above interspersed with barking at random noises, attempting to steal food, ball games, attempting to eat contents of cat litter tray and producing smelly farts.

We live in a 3 storey house with living room on the top floor. Much of our JRT's indoor waking time consists of him supervising the garden from upstairs and running with a long grumbling growl down stairs into the garden to chase off seagulls and cats. Apart from this ongoing work his routine is:
Wake at 6 in his own bed, wake us to go out for pee/poo
Get into our bed sleep until we get up.
Offered breakfast, doesn't eat it.
9am out for long walk, maybe on the beach, followed by football and running with his friends in a play area near home.
10 30 home, rub down or shower then rub down in the big towel accompanied by snorting growling and finger nibbling
Waterbowl
Mad tuggy growly play
Breakfast which now has grated cheese mixed in to encourage eating
Sleep.
Repeat.

Oh yes, he goes to bed at about 8pm, out for last pee when we go to bed. If it's cold he lays in bed and waits for me to tuck him in with a fleecy blanket.