A day in the life of your dog

[TeenagePup]

Following my other thread about my attention-demanding pup, please talk me through a typical day in the life of your dog!

7 am ish woof the garden to chase away squirrels
7.03 few chases of frisby. If I catch it I am v excited
7.05 upstairs with mum and cups of tea to say good morning to dad and have a snooze on the bed
8 am downstairs for more playing with the kids in the garden
8.30 walk round the farm. Help feed the chickens
9-3 hang out near where people are. Greet visitors through the gate. Intermittent frisby games. Sleep a lot. Hang out in my bed / on all the beds / in the garden
3.15 kids home, play frisby or tennis. Have a lot of fuss, run around in garden
6pm dinner
6.30 more frisby
7pm hang about on the sofa. Chew my yak bone. Walk fields and shut in chickens
8pm kids to bed. Last wee in garden and slink off upstairs to mum’s room
9pm mum comes to bed
11 pm turfed out of dad’s side of bed. Sleep on the sofa downstairs till mum comes down at 7am and I want to woof the garden ….

Lol this is where she is right now 😂😂 our bed, with frisby!

I no longer have a dog but when I did it would go something like .

3am human , wake up i need a pee
6 am human wake up I am hungry
6.15 play with me !
6.45 Yay walkies
6.46 its raining I am not going out
6.47 Why have you not taking me out
6.48 its raining why are you forcing me to go out
7.15 at last you are taking me out
7.20 I need to find the biggest stick in the world and bash everyones legs with it

7.25 PUDDLE !
8.00 wait what we have to go home already but we have only been out 5 mins
8.15 I demand you dry me with a towel and the hair dryer for at least 10 mins
8.30 what just dry food , hmmm not impressed with that , I wont eat it.
8.45 where are you going , can I come , please , I will be good , PLEASE.
9.00 I have been abandoned ! how will I cope ?
9.01 ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz
12.00 I am hungry I spose I will have to eat this dry food or I will starve to death
12.03 must defend house from stranger trying to get through the letter box
12.05 HA thats scared him away.
12.06 all that hard work I need a nap
5.00 someone else is trying to get in my house , must defend it .
5.01 oh its you human , where have you been you abandon me for days but I am so glad to see you

5.02 Come on take me out now
5.10 yay off we go , now where did I put theat shin bashing stick
5.15 ooh look there is that Barny lets play in the mud together
6.30 what home time already ?
6.45 feed me
7.00 ok time for a short nap in front of the fire and tv
7.02 that smell is not me , nope not me at all
10.00 yawn is it bed time yet

3am I need a pee . . . . . .

My dogs pretty much do what they like. There’s pretty much always someone home, so snuggles play, dinner and meds at 8am and 6pm and walks at 11ish and 6.30 ish. Free access to garden and go to bed when we do, either on human beds or on the sofas depending on where they want. One always sleeps with me but the others pick and choose who/ where they want to sleep. I feel a bit bad mine don’t have a routine as such now, but the oldest is 16 and has dementia so pretty much does what she likes and they are all settled and happy.

@SmallGreenStripes , we both know our dogs so well

My Romanian rescue dogs day goes like this.
7am alarm clock goes off time to get out of his bed and jump in between me and DH for some cuddles
7:10am go downstairs with DH and lie on the sofa doing puppy dog eye until someone feeds him.
8am go for a walk, come home and have a biscuit
9am until 2pm sleep on mine and DH's bed, maybe go for an occasional snooze downstairs on the sofa.
2pm go berserk when I get in from work until I feed him and take him on a walk
3pm go back to sleep
6pm supervise whoever is cooking tea
6:30pm supervise people eating their tea
7:30pm go for a walk or go to watch various kids doing various sports which also doubles as a walk.
9pm go to sleep on mine and DH's bed until one of us goes to sleep when he gets into his own bed.
I swear he thinks he is a cat the amount of sleeping he does!

6 year old Mini Schnauzer.

6:30am I am not getting up with you crazy humans!
7am: ok will go out for a wee and eat breakfast, my servant humans are lucky to have me.
7.30am: you bastards are leaving me again.
9am: yaaay! My daycare humans are here to pick me up!
10 - 12: Big walks on the hills with my gang! Living my best life here!
Afternoon: snoozing and playing with my gang - perfect!
5pm - home to the servants again, I might decide to eat my dinner if they are lucky.
6pm: follow the servants around all evening until I eventually fall asleep on my sofa.

Elderly and easy-going so not hugely routine driven but:

Wake-up and do some polite woofing to alert humans that I appear to be shut in the kitchen and need to be released immediately. It’s that’s before 6am, get sent back to bed.
Post 6am, released and charge upstairs to human bed and stay there until I’m turfed out.
Walk
Potter and snooze for the day, back door is usually open unless weather is really bad so wander in and out sunbathing and shouting at pigeons.
Walk or trip to pub/friends/similar.
Supervise and taste test dinner making.
Snooze on sofa for the evening.
Up to human bed for half an hour or so until lights out when I’m accidentally shut in the kitchen again.

8 year old cockapoo, with me wfh and pretty pregnant at the moment.
8am I get up, he judges me
8:15am I convince him that going outside for a quick walk will be nice, look, it’s not raining! (If it’s raining, forget it!). I check the horses, he tries to roll in horse shit, I shout, he laughs at me
8:30am-11am I work, he alternates between sleeping on our bed, sleeping on the armchair in our bedroom and sleeping on my feet under the desk
11am quick run around the yard/closest fields to the house
11:15am-1pm back to work, see above for routine until lunchtime
1pm-2pm lies in his bed glaring at me while I eat my lunch (house rule, dog in bed while people are eating) Once I’ve finished, he snoozes on my lap while I read for a bit
2pm-5pm back to work therefore more naps for his lordship
5pm long walk around the farm, see to the horses
6pm-10/11pm follows me around the house like the needy little darling he is, gets mega excited when DH gets home, naps a lot (always on either my lap or DHs lap. Again, needy), brief interlude to the cuddles as he is banished to his bed so we can eat our tea
11pm-8am sleeps on our bed

He’s so cuddly and lazy, I adore him. He will happily stay in bed in the mornings until 10 or 11, it’s like he just values comfort and sleep more than needing a wee 😂 He’s even more needy and clingy at the moment, he knows somethings afoot but isn’t quite sure what yet 🤰🏼

Retired greyhound:
6.05 I can hear your alarm, get up!
6.05.30 GET UP!!!!
6.15 nope, no muzzle, nope.
6.16 who are you calling a dick?
6.18 ok, I’ll accept the muzzle.
6.20 walks, oh squirrel!
6.45 I’m home! Where’s breakfast?
7.25 pig snout/ cow ear yum!
8.20 byeeeee humans!
8.20.20 zzzzzzzzzz
12.00 human who does more walks
12.01 nope, no muzzle
12.05 ok, fine.
13.00 post walk snack. Kong time!
15.45 Humans!! Garden pees.
16.30 the muzzle debate again
17.00 home, eat.
17.00 onwards: fart, snooze, roach repeat.
22. 00 final pee, curl up under duvet.

This is her weekday, weekends are a bit more chilled and some days she goes to her grandparents so gets to play with them all day.

6:10am Oh god they’re up. Mum gives me chicken strips to eat in the garden in the hope that I will one day wee in my own garden. Back to bed after scamming toast if they have it.
7am mum is dressed so off for a 25min-ish walk - we don’t get far because I have to check all my correspondence (sniffing grass and replying with wee). Wait til the last minute on this walk to have a poo, before which I have to circle and dance to entertain mum.
7:40am Off they both go to work. I take up my spot either on the sofa or in my bed, listening to radio 2.
10am ish Dog Walker comes and takes me out. She takes photos of me and sends them to mum.
1pmish Dog Walker comes again. Sometimes I don’t want a walk so she just lets me out in the garden to lie on the grass. More photos!
4pm ish mum is home! Big snuggles and zombies. She has work to do on her laptop so I lie next to her and remind her I exist!
6pm Dinner! Dad comes home around this point and I go mad because he is my favourite.
Any time between 7 and 9pm - walk of about an hour, all the sniffs. I try and get this walk done as quickly as possible because all I want to do is get home and eat my biscuits!
10pm bed time. They make me a bed with a blanket on the sofa but I like to go up to bed with them and come down again later.

@Hellocatshome mine is a rommie too!

Zoomies not zombies!

5.30 up for the day, walks with dad. Tries to roll in something gross. Loses ball.
6.00 back to bed with mum. Snooze...
7.30 up with mum and the smaller humans. Look at them all pleadingly and do my very saddest face. Eat my breakfast.
8.30 they fool me with a dentastix, yay! Every time they leave...
8.30 take up position on couch, watch all the street goings on
12.00 out with dog walker in scary van. Run about mad, get filthy.
13.00 back to couch. Snooze.
15.00 small humans start coming home. Wander round garden, have cuddles.
17.00 mum home, yay
18.00 dad home, yayayayayay
18.00 more food
19.00 go to park with my ball
20.00 snoooooooze
22.00 walk round the block with mum.
Sniff, pee, repeat.
22.30 bed

4 yearish old rescue, been with us 6 months, staffy cross

Sometimes gets us up in the night for the toilet but otherwise she’ll stay in bed (our bed, usually between our feet) even after we’ve got up. Eats breakfast, then either comes on the school run or i nip back and collect her, and we walk for up to an hour. Then she chills while I work, she has lunch (dodgy stomach means she gets on better eating three times a day), potters in and out of the garden sticking her head through next door’s catflap saying hello to their dog. Gets excited when eldest DD gets home from school. Starts staring at me from about 4.30 willing me to finish working. Dinner at 5.30. Sometimes a short walk in the evening but her preference (especially if it’s raining) is to cuddle on the sofa. Sometimes she asks to go up to bed before we go up, otherwise comes up bed when we do.

Weekends she might swap a walk for a run around a secure field.

Thanks everyone. Great to see what others do and some of these responses are hilarious

Almost 16 year old Lurcher with a few health issues.

5.30 - Approach Dad - who sleeps on the sofa to be near me - and give him cold, wet nose-pokes until he gets up to take me in the garden for a wee.

5.30-5.45 - bimble about the garden carefully sniffing every single trail the squirrels and pigeons have left, attempt to go back in the house mid-poo, just to keep Dad on his toes!

5.45 - back in, time for sweeties (meds in goat’s cheese)

5.50 - back to bed

7.00 - Mum and Dad get up for the day and I grumble at being disturbed, then start working the big eyes and starving pooch expression to get them to feed me.

7.30 - Finally, breakfast, plus the rest of my morning meds.

7.40 - Back outside to take ages rechecking the garden sniff-trails in minute detail.

8.00 - Spark out on my bed. Mum keeps the curtains drawn and the room quiet so I can sleep properly, as if I do get woken suddenly I have one of my ‘funny turns’.

Between 12.00 and 1.30 - Wake up, demand to go outside immediately to recheck the trails and take care of other essential ‘outside business’

2.00 - Sniffy walk to the local park, checking more squirrel trails and saying a polite hello to the more genteel canine visitors there, whilst looking down my nose at and studiously ignoring any rude upstarts.

2.20 - Back home for a nice nap.

3.30 - Begin persuasion tactics for my afternoon ‘activities’ until Mum either sets up my snuffle mat, kong wobbler or does some brain games with me. Make sure Mum is carefully supervised while she’s setting things up, so that enough treats of the right time are used and she isn’t skimping. Then I have my afternoon sweeties (meds again) and do my afternoon garden patrol.

4.00 - Back to bed for another nice snooze.

5.30 - Wake up and insist it’s dinner time, even though I know it isn’t until 6.30. Employ my best Paddington stares and grumbles, usually to no avail. So I lie on my bed giving out dirty looks instead until one of the smaller humans (teenagers) sits with me and gives me cuddle.

6.30 - Finally get my dinner and evening meds before doing my evening garden patrols followed by my daily game of ‘chase me up and down the garden and in and out of the house’ with Mum or ds2. We have to do this at least four times every night, before I flop down on my bed and decide the game is over.

7.00 - Completely konk out on my bed in the living room.

8.00 - Some days, if I am up to it, I get another sniffy walk.

9.30 - Wake up and make it clear I think it’s bed time, get the hump when no-one listens, so give in and go out for a garden patrol with Mum, followed my her sitting by my bed for snuggles instead.

10.30 - Mum/Dad have to try really hard to wake me for my last garden visit. I eventually, very reluctantly agree and oblige with a quick wee, in exchange for my final sweeties (meds) of the day.

10.40 - Spark out for the rest of the night, unless I have a funny turn, in which case I will approach the sofa and wake Dad up to look after me. (One night a week it’s Mum not Dad that’s on the sofa.)

5.30 am - repeat.

In between all this, throughout the day I intermittently get up and stare intently to let Mum know I am going to have a funny turn and she cuddles me through each one. I then go straight back to bed each time to sleep it off.

7-8am breakfast before I can even get off the last step of the stairs.

30 seconds later out in the garden for toilet.

Sleep until midday. On a selection of 9 beds (sofas, human beds, 'their' beds)

Around midday a walk. Varies in time anything from half an hour to two hours.

When we return and if I can get my coat off first (mostly not) a cheesy stuffed bone.

More sleeping and in and out of the garden at their leisure if it's not raining until about 3pm when their stomachs think it's 5pm (dinner time)

So I can move about the house with ease and safely I usually give in and give them their dinner at 3pm.

Rest of the evening more cheese stuffed bones, play time and cuddles.

Two elderly Labradors.

2 very hyper husky pups and 2 more chilled out older huskies

7am we hear you moving about up there mum, and we're gonna make sure you know we're ready to go outside NOW
7.10am race around the garden sniffing for foxes and cats. Woof a bit until mum tells us to shush. Probably have a wee if we can stop running about for a minute.
8am breakfast time
8.30am second breakfast
9am us young pups will jump around noisily while our doggy parents snooze and mum plays ball with us
9.30am to 12pm Sleep. Snore. Fart.

12pm to 2pm more racing around our garden chasing things and playing with doggy parents
2pm to 4pm chill in the kitchen with treats and cuddles. Doggy dad will watch and judge us and tell us off if we annoy him when he's contemplating life.
5pm dinner
6pm second dinner
7pm to 8 pm race around the garden again, woof a bit until mum tells us off
8.30pm put ourselves to bed in the pen in the kitchen and sleep til we hear mum get up at 7am.

That's pretty much it day in day out!

Today my dog lounged around until 9am ish then went into the garden for a wee (because I told him to!)

He slept some more, followed me around the house a bit.

After lunch he went on a lovely long walk and met a pony, some goats and some chickens. We popped into a garden centre and everyone said hello to him.

Home and had a snooze.

Dinner about 5pm

Shorter walk about 7pm.

Bit of playing and chewing

9pm bed.

He's a pretty chilled dog really, as long as he gets a couple of walks a day he's happy to kip or entertain himself a lot of the time!

8:30 breakfast!
8:35 face rub (either on new rug or in the garden, weather dictates)
8:45 cuddles and/or game followed by snooze
10:00 walkies!!! Yay!!!
10:15 pull mum towards a cafe where I will get a treat
10:30 sniffing
10:45 pull mum towards a cafe where I will get a treat
11:00 sniffing
11:15 pull mum towards a cafe where I will get a treat
11:30 sniffing
12:00 sit down and refuse to move because I don’t want to go home
12:15 sniffing
12:30 go home s l o w l y
13:00 get combed. Ugh.
13: 15 beg mum for a piece of her lunch
13:30 S L E E P
16:30 start thinking about my next meal and start looking hopeful
17:00 dinner time!
17:05 face rub, tug of war, then snooze
18:30 walkies! Yay!
18:45 sniffing
19:00 sniffing all the way home
19:30 hang around in the kitchen to see if mum is cooking anything nice
20:00 playtime
20:30 BED

Typical day

6.30 - up and straight onto the bed to lick, snuggle, snooze

7- breakfast and more snoozing

7.30 daycare or stay at home and more snoozing

11 - walk

13.30 - home from walk for a snack and more snoozing

3.30 - play wrestling with toys

5.00 - rest of the humans home or gets back from daycare. Either way goes berserk at seeing rest of the family

5.30 - tea on the grass

6.30 - quick walk around the park

8.30 - evening cuddles on the bed

9 - supper

10 - bed

Mine is a lazy bugger.

Given the choice, he'll sleep until 8-9am, come down for a wee and go back to sleep on the sofa, but on weekdays he's generally up by 7.30am at the latest.

After he shares my toast crusts with me, it's off to work. I'm a dog walker so he comes with me most days for at least an hour or so. At 10am if he's not with me all day, he goes to my in-laws while I work. He gets a treat/biscuits there and spends most of his day after that snoring on his bed or pestering his granddad for treats

I pick him up around 2pm at the latest and he has his dinner and promptly goes straight back to bed until DH gets home around 5pm. Cue much excitement and barking at the cats. He's generally awake from 5pm-7pm ish just mooching around and begging food off people.

Then it's back to sleep until he gets booted out for his final wee around 10-10.30pm, then he comes upstairs, gets under the covers and snores until morning!

He's a 3.5 year old beagle. He gets a lot of exercise and company through then day though which I think helps him chill out in the evenings.

6.30 am - up for a 30-60 min walk across the fields or around the village. Do a giant poo, pee on all way points.

7.30am breakfast.

Morning - snooze in the window, bark at pigeons, maybe break out to go and play with the neighbours dog, truffle around the garden and pee on stuff.

Lunchtime - barky gallop around the garden with a human and a toy, scoff a dental chew.

Afternoon - find somewhere to snooze, watch the world go by through the window, maybe go for a car ride.

5pm - dinner, zoomies around the garden, steal and hide shoes, piss on the fresh mint.

7pm - 30 minute walk around village to greet the locals and bop around, do a couple of poos and pretend to be scared of leaves and feathers.

8pm - 9pm - harass the woman human and cry pitifully until a bedtime dental chew is proffered.

9pm - bedtime, get into human bed and hog it all night with tiny 7kg stinky hairy body until everything starts again at 6.30am.

14 week old puppy day at the moment;

5am wake up. Need a week. Wake up mum. Have wee and she puts me back in bed.
5:10am. Need a poo. Scrat at the crate to show mum I reeeeaally need to go. And I didn't 10 minutes ago.
6:00 mum drags herself out of bed and takes me for a walk. Try to catch dead leaves, feather and wuff at the pigeons. Play tug with mum and try to nick all clothing items.
7am breakfast. Mum scarpers whilst I'm scoffing so I don't howl.
7:30 hover under table to scarf crumbs.
8:30am small humans leave for school. Howl in my pen cos I'm all alone for 20 minutes. Dad comes back and I wee myself with excitement. Dad cleans up my wee.
9am sit on dad's feet whilst he does boring meetings. Occasionally bark whilst he's on video ones and wee/poo on floor for the giggles, or go out and bother the garden and wuff at the pigeons some more.

11am Dad gives me a chew so I shush and stay still for 10 minutes.
1pm. Lunch. Yay. Make sad eyes at ddad so I get chicken.
Repeat morning antics til small humans come home.
4:30pm yay mum home! More excited wee. Mum takes me for a trip to the park and makes me do some training to get cheese.
5:30pm dinner. Mum is soft and puts nice things on it.
7pm try and get in small human's baths/showers. I don't like mine but theirs are great.
8pm crash out on floor despite the multitude of bed spaces.
10pm get thrown off sofa and have to wee.
10:30 whine on crate as mum has selfishly gone to the bathroom so I can't sleep. Zzzz
5:30am, I need a wee.....