Morning routines - Does your doodle know it's a weekend?

[J and Riley (and Luna)]

Luna absolutely knows when it's a weekend.  Dogs seem to have pretty strict routines and Luna is no exception!

Weekdays we're up at about 6 AM - Luna lies on the bath mat while I brush my teeth etc. She then has her morning food + time outside before we go.

Weekends - sometimes she sleeps in until 8:30 (if I do), but sometimes I wake up earlier (7:30).  If she wakes up too early, we just say "go to sleep" and she does a big sigh and goes back to her bed.

After she's had her "downtime" after eating, I try to play with her.. but there are a few problems with this:

1) One of her favorite places to fetch is down the hallway upstairs into the bedroom.  Not so nice for DF who is trying to sleep!

2) She likes to play LOUD, especially when the person she's playing with is growling along with her.  Can't do that in the morning while someone is sleeping either!

3) I'm sleepy, it's a weekend and when DF wakes up we go to the dog park... so no walk.

Our play time in the morning usually looks something like this:

My DF is definitely her preferred playmate, so after about an hour of me ("Mommy you're boring!  You're not making any fun sounds!") she starts trying to wake him up. 

I think DF is VERY happy Luna doesn't seem to understand how to jump on the bed.  Sometimes she manages to punch someone in the face with her paws to wake them up if we rolled too close to the edge.  Although she has "accidentally" jumped up on the bed about 5-6 times when extremely excited, most of the time this is what happens... silly girl.

[Jen, Lachlan, and Declan]

Awww, too cute!

Pretty sure mine don't know it's the weekend. As a lifelong insomniac I have to keep a pretty rigid sleep schedule and since my work-day starts at 6am I need to be up by 4:30am during the week ... so here it is 5am on a Sunday morning and they've eaten their breakfast and I'm nearly through my first cup of coffee.

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

No they don't know it's the weekend and if they do, they don't care. It's not even 5am

They are used to going out at 4am when DH leaves for work so yesterday and today it's 3:55am and they are beating me in the head to get up-not him, me!

Luna's funny!