What time does your dog go out in the morning?

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Just that really.

We have always got up at 5:30 to fit in a decent walk before work. Since lockdown I'm mostly working from home, so the dog is sleeping until 6-6:30ish, and then going out for a quick pee before breakfast. I'd love her to wait a bit longer. Just wondering what everyone else does.

You're going to hate me but my dog will often sleep until 10am. We're not early risers and he has a bladder of steel. I get up before him in the week.

I guess if your dog is used to getting up really early, it's going to be hard to push it forward. Maybe do like you do with a child - half an hour at a time

My dog has a bladder of steel. He often won't go out until after he's eaten which is 730 and if it's raining, no chance. He can manage quite easily until 9 on the rare chance we get a lie in.

I drag my dog off my teenage daughters bed at about 10am, she usually tries to ignore me and hide cos she can't be bothered moving!

10am! Jealous.

We live in an upstairs flat with no garden, so not having to get dressed and go out first thing would be amazing.

Our dog gets up when he hears someone else get up , he sleeps upstairs on a bed but he has his own room so generally between 8-9 but he often doesn’t go out for a wee for another 30-60 minutes .

Sometimes DDog won't do a last wee around 10pm - it's a battle of wills to get her to do one.

I usually get up 8ish but sometimes as late at 10am and never a peep. She will then usually go from 8am to 5pm without asking to go out. Bladder of steel...

She basically sleeps all night and day apart from 4-8pm 🤷🏽‍♀️

Generally 4.30 - 5ish 😭. 6am is a lie in!

I have had years of getting up for an old lady dog who couldn't last past 6.30 am and often woke me at 5-5.30am to go out. And even then it was often too late for her. I've cleaned the kitchen floor so often! We sadly lost her in January and now we have a new (4yo) dog who astonishes me by lasting till 9.30 or 10am without difficulty. But I think I've earned it!

My 14 week old pup doesn't even get up at that time. She often needs dragged outside at 9. Guess lockdown has been good for something!

Whenever we're up, could be 5.30 could be 8.30am. He never seems in a hurry to pee, always got time for a cuddle and his brekkie first!

She's not actually asking to go out, I think she wakes up because she's hungry. All these late risers are making me think she doesn't need to pee immediately.

In particularly bad weather DDog waited 24 hours to do a pee everytime you opened the door she ran away! In the end she got shoved out with a foot.. all of 2 metres to shelter under the trampoline 🙄

Oh breakfast, I had to stop giving DDog breakfast for months else she would come wake me up even though DH had got her out of her crate and was there in the kitchen!

Try changing her feeding routine associations - and erm well refuse to feed her for a while and increase how late she has both breakfast and supper?

Quite happy to get up when we do. Usually (before lockdown, through the week) he would get out at 7:45 just as dh is leaving for work, then come back to sleep on my bed for a while.

This week dh has been off work and we've been sleeping late (up late too). Last night he went out at 11 and didn't bark until 12:30! Fast asleep on my feet right now!

If we come down early (before 7) ours is still snoring in her bed. We normally let her out around 8-9 and take her for a walk around 11 (earlier if it's hot) but she used to wake up early when she was little (she's 6 now). I think puppies and older dogs need more wees! Also we tend to go to bed late and take her out into the garden for a wee at midnight or so, so that helps.

I take him out in the garden at 10-11pm and he can wait till 10.30am to go in the garden but he will then wee and poo immediately. Before lockdown he would go in the garden at maybe 7.45am because that's when i would normally come down.

Never give breakfast! Just lunch and dinner. My dog won't get up until 10am at the earliest, no point. But he is a whippet, and sleeps at least 20 hours a day. Definitely has a bladder of steel and if it's raining will hold on as long as poss.

I get up about 7ish and let the dogs out back. Then in normal times meet friends for coffee after school drop off then back home for proper dog walk. But they've been known to sleep in til well after 9 if no one is up and moving.

One of ours goes in the garden at whatever time the first of me and my husband wake, the other is another bladder of steel, on school days I'm literally pulling him off my bed and pushing him out to the garden within minutes of us leaving at 8.50.
Both just go in the garden in the morning, actual walks are either lunch and afternoon or afternoon and evening!

Mine will happily wait until i get up. In the week this is normally around 7, but at the weekend he'll sleep in while I have a lie in, sometimes until 9-ish.

DH gets up at six so will let the dog out then, he goes for a pee and then comes back to bed when DH goes to work. His morning walk can be anywhere between 7-10am depending on my work schedule and the weather.

I'm a dog walker so if I have a walk booked in at 9am, he'll wait and have his walk with my work dogs. If I don't have a walk booked it's normally 8am that he gets out, but sometimes he waits until later if the weather is bad or if I have plans mid-morning.

He's pretty flexible really!

She goes out at about 10pm for a last wee & then in the morning it is usually between 8-9am, depending on whether it is me or DH who goes down to put the kettle on.

If she needs to go out in the middle of the night (maybe once a month?) there's this special quiet, low growl/whimper that she does which only I can hear. Apparently.

One of mine often decides he wants to go out at about 3am he is like a camel - doesn't drink much all day then guzzles a tank load of water after his evening walk and again before bed. So I always know when he's going to be waking me up after a few hours' sleep. I'm used to it now and he's nearly 14 so won't be growing out of it (it'll likely get worse!).

The other one is the complete opposite - he would happily stay in bed until lunchtime if he had his way and has a very strong bladder! And if it's raining, forget it, he's not getting his paws wet!

Ah! My dog doesn't get breakfast. He has never been interested in food in the morning so we've just pushed it to lunch and dinner

She's not actually asking to go out, I think she wakes up because she's hungry. All these late risers are making me think she doesn't need to pee immediately.

All dogs are different and generally will find it much easier to hold pee for longer when asleep because their bladder is inhibited during sleep. A dog that wakes early might not hold it so long because they are awake iyswim. All you can do is experiment.