The crate, the cats the dog and the mornings

[Overthinker84]

I've posted before about this and not much has changed. Thinking we now need to leave the crate door open and let Dpup have downstairs. He is still waking up anytime between 5.30 and 6.30 and its just too early! Even going out for the loo at 1130. He's 7 months old and this is pretty much the only bad thing.
Problem is we have cats that have free run so worried that he may start being an idiot and chase them! I'm the evenings he usually ignores them and sleeps.
Anyone else going through the same???

Honestly - it's pretty normal for 7 month old dogs to wake up at half six in the morning, honestly. Mine was well over a year before he regularly slept in past 7am, and it's only since he turned two that he slept in past 8am.

I wouldn't leave a young dog with free rein of downstairs with cats overnight either - he may ignore them while you're there but that's very different to when you're not and it's for 7-8 hours straight. I would also be wary of the cats winding the dog up and the dog getting scratched or wound up to the point he barks and disturbs the neighbours.

If the dog is crated, do you cover the crate? What happens if you take him out to the toilet on a lead, let him do his business and put him back to bed?

Mine was an early riser and remained so for a few years which was only made better when we moved him to our bed.

At 7 months I would be very worried about free reign unless totally puppy proofed and definitely no cats.

Can you just give him access to one room so he can’t pester the cats .