How Does Your Doodle Wake You Up!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

This morning Vern woke me up by putting his enormous paw on my face. Sometimes, if I am working on my computer in bed while he is sleeping, when he wakes up, he sits and stares at me for awhile. If I ignore the stare, he lays his face right on my keyboard. Next, comes the paw. If you are really lucky, he puts both paws on you and it feels like a doodle hug.

 

Fudge almost never wakes us up and usually, reluctantly gets up when forced. She doesn't even get up sometimes when Vern has to go out.

[Adina P]

Neither of mine wake us up UNLESS they have to go potty in the middle of the night.  And so far, Boca, who has only been sleeping uncrated in our room for about two weeks has not had to do this. Rosco, on the other hand, will go to the door and kind of "harumph", avoiding barking unless nothing else works.  He might also come and breathe in your face.  But that's about it. Funny (?) enough last week while I was napping with Rosco in the room and earplugs in my ears he peed on our floor!  I found it after waking up from my nap and realized whatever 'attempt' he made to wake me up was obviously NOT loud enough!

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

Murphy never wakes us up, We wake HIM up!  Bella on the other hand just pounces on top of our heads!  Hope she outgrows that before she gets too much bigger!

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

Nope.  We always have to wake Gracie up.  We call her a Slug-A-Bed!  She will sleep in all morning if we don't open the back door which means a walk or time to play ball. 

[Kathy Spyker]

Lilly stays laying until she hears me go down the steps, then its a race to see who gets to the door first. Once in awhile I wake up to see her staring at me or if my hand is hanging out off the bed she nudges it with her cold nose to get me to pet her.

[Joe R.]

Gus only wakes us up if he needs to go out. He gives a single bark. If we don't respond he'll give another single bark every few minutes. Lily though is my secondary alarm clock when I'm home. She'll come and give me a lick on my hand, elbow or face from the side of the bed until I get up. I think it's mostly because she's tired of hearing the alarm going off. Both of ours are 4 1/2 years.

[Donna K & Quincy]

Quincy doesn't wake us up and usually is in no hurry to get up at all. On the mornings that I don't have to get up for work, DH will take Quincy out to potty and as soon as he is back inside he immediately runs back upstairs and into bed with me. This is without a doubt my favorite time of the day.

[BG and Gavin]

Move one:  the stare

Move two:  the nose nudge

Move three:  the head shake causing the tag rattle

 

[Carol and Banjo]

Banjo's is like a teenaged boy in the morning.  We come down and open his crate door....put the coffee on....turn on the TV....and he, more often than not....stays in his "room" til he's ready to get up.

[Camilla and Darwin]

Darwin sleeps in another room in his crate, so he can't really wake us up. Even when we get up and open his crate, he'll usually sleep a couple more hours. Although, when we stay overnight at my in-laws he'll wake up really early and jump up on the bed. Then he'll proceed to step all over us until we wake up. Silly dog!

[Michael Gurley]

My dad usually gets up first, so when he opens my door to let Sunny out, she just gets off the bed and goes outside with him while he gets the paper. Then she either bullies my dachshund for a few minutes until the dachshund bites her or she comes back up to bed with me and snuggles :)

If my dad riles her up though, she'll come upstairs and pounce on the bed and lick my face until I get up or push her off the bed. Then she body-slams my mom's room door, scratches at it, and sticks her paw underneath it. Then she repeats. Body slam, scratch, paw shove.

[Clifford, Cloud, Jake..and Kim]

Now that we have two, Clifford waits to wake my husband when he thinks it's time to play (usualy between 3:30 and 4 am).  Little Dood (I promise he'll get a name soon) comes to the side of the bed and puts his two paws on it, if I don't respond fast enough he paws me to get my attention...as if I could ignore his cute face looking at me.  On the days he actually waits for the alarm to go off at 2am he stands next to the bed for about 10 seconds and then puts his paws on the bed.  Clifford is 18 months today and Little Dood is about 2.

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Daisy never ever ever (well maybe once when she wasn't feeling well and had to go potty) gets up first. Like Fudge she is the last one to get out of bed. I get up first, when Daisy was little I would scoop her up and take her out without her feet ever touching the ground but now I shower and get dressed while DH and Daisy snore away, I then get DH up and he gets coffee, we turn on the news in the bedroom and Daisy is still in her crate (her crate door is never shut any longer). DH gets on the floor and rubs her belly for about a 1/2 hour....this has been going on for well over 8 months. I don't think it's going to change. She loves her beauty rest.