Does your doodle put himself to bed or wait up with you?

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Our Murphy always waited for us to go to bed and even if only one of us went to bed, he's stay up and "protect" the awake one. Just recently he started going to bed with the earlier retiring parent and just last week he went to bed all by himself, leaving both of us up and watching TV. We had to go look for him!!!

Makes me wonder what changes to cause this? He has done it once before but he got up when he realized we weren't going to join him anytime soon, so I don't think it's the puppy. She seems to stay up with the last person, but it's too early to tell about her. Anyone else's doodles change their bedtime behavior as they got older?

[Suzann, Rosey & Bandit]

Bandit always puts himself to sleep by 9:30 but always sleeps right next to me. Rosey will eventually put herself to sleep when she decides she's tired but will only sleep in a room with me in it.

[Frannie & Callie]

Callie doesn't like to go upstairs to bed by herself. She always waits for me but if I stay up late she will keep wandering over to the stairs and give me a "look". Then I say something smart like "It's not night-night time yet Callie" and she comes back. The part I don't get...I pass the front door to get to the stairs, but she ABSOLUTELY knows that it's bedtime and heads upstairs. Every other time of day she thinks that if I go within 5 feet of the door, she gets to go out.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Jackdoodle puts himself to bed on my bed; he started this around his third birthday. One trainer I know says it is a sign of a confident dog if they are comfortable being in another part of the house from other family members, so I figured it was a sign that he felt secure.
The strange thing is that as soon as I get into bed, he gets down and sleeps on the floor next to the bed!

[Camilla and Darwin]

When Darwin knows it's about bedtime (after we take him out around 11) he will go in his crate and go to sleep. We usually stay up later than that but he is a goner. :-)

[Donna K & Quincy]

Quincy does not like to go to bed alone, when it is time for bed he will go to the bottom of the stairs and look at us with his 'it's time to go to bed look', if no one responds he will bark to let us know he really means it. My husband is usually the first to go to bed but that won't quite do, if I don't go up stairs at the same time he comes back downstairs and barks at me until I escort him up the stairs to the bedroom. Once I have escorted him upstairs and he has flopped in his usual spot at the bottom of the bed, I am free to leave and he then stays upstairs.

[BG and Gavin]

So far Gavin (16 months old) waits up. When I go into the bathroom before retiring, he follows and lays on the floor in there until my pre-bed routine is done. He then heads promptly to his dog bed in the spare room and lies down in wait of his pre-bed biscuit. This behaviour is a hold-over from the crate days. After his snack he then comes to our bedroom and lies on the floor usually on my husband's side, but sometimes on my side or he makes the politically correct choice and lies at the end. Boy, they are creatures of habit, that's for sure!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

That has always been Murphy's MO. He is a very early-to-bed doodle. By 7:30 he is out! Maybe as he's gotten older he's figured out that the down comforter on mom's bed is so much cozier than the floor in the living room.

[Adina P]

Rosco sometimes goes to bed on his own. But most of the time both doodles are crashed at our feet and I have to coerce them awake =)

[cheryl & oliver]

Our Oliver used to stay up with me, I am the one that is up the latest in our house, and when I went to bed, he would follow me and go in his crate in our bedroom. But lately on several diffent occasions he will follow my husband into the bedroom, hang out on the bed with him for a few minutes and then just go in his crate and go to sleep. I have discovered this when I was looking all over the house for him to get him to go to bed one night when I was going. I walked in the bedroom and there he was in his crate sleeping. Of course he raised his head when I walked in, I of course went and pettted him and kissed him goodnight, and that was that. As I say this is something new, and not all the time...He is 18 mos old now, so maybe this is an age thing???

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Both of my guys are stuck to me like glue, so they go to bed whenever I do...no matter how early or late. I can't imagine what they'll do if I'm ever away overnight.