How Early Do You Have To Get Up In the Morning To Let Your Dog(s) Out?

[IRescue452]

Autumn dosn't like to be woken until 9 or 10 am. Pepper doesn't care because she's reverted to going in the basement at night when she has to go.

[ParNone]

Gull comes and pokes me in the nose around 6:30 every morning to get up and play with him, but they don't actually go out to potty until around 8:00am. All three of mine have incredible bladders. Wish I could hold it that long.

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[pnance]

That is too funny. Nanook will also just sit there on my porch sometimes, sometimes for hours before he wanders into the yard to potty.

I have the feeling putting those 2 together would be interesting...they'd lay there and discuss all the reasons why we're being lame for not understanding that they'll get to it when they get to it...

[elizabethann]

I get up at around 6/6:30ish and take a shower and get dressed. Fenway stays in bed until about 7:00ish. Then he's ready to go after about a dozen stretches.

[.sarah]

As long as I let them out right before bed they're good all night long.

[anna_66]

The workers there asked me if Nanook had a problem, he wouldn't go potty the ENTIRE time he was there. I asked them if they took the dogs to a grassy area to potty they said no. I said there's your problem he won't potty on anything but grass. But I never knew he would hold it for 5 whole days. He peed for a good 5-10 minutes.

I thought my RB Keisha was the only one to do that. We had her and Angus boarded for 6 days and they said she didn't go to the bathroom once in that whole time which I found hard to belive. But when we got home I swear she peed 20 times I thought she was never going to stop!

Now as how early I have to get up, well it depends who wants out and why (I get up with them all times of the night).
Sometimes one of them thinks they hear/see something outside and want out.
Other times they are thirsty (we keep the water outside since Bon is such a slobber monster )
But MOST of the time to go to the bathroom I'd say they want out around 6 or 6:30am.

[tricollie4me]

Bijou totally lives by our schedule We potty her for the last time before bed at about 10:00 p.m., and then we potty her again in the morning at about 6:45-7:00 a.m., right before she and the cats have brekkie. She's such a good girl -- when we first got her from the rescue @ 14 weeks, I thought she'd never get housetrained...now she's so dependable. I'm really proud of her!

[lizbud]

My dogs always wait for me to get up, anytime that is. Maggie will
sometimes do this moaning/groaning kind of sound that wakes me if I should
sleep to long for her.

[KYS]

Ummm!
Ms Sheba, has to be told to go outside.
She will sleep in as long as she can.
Rocky is my alarm clock.
He gets up usually around 6:30 a.m., jumps
1/2 on my bed for head pets and than I let him outside
while Sheba tries to sleep.

[Buddy Blaze Lover]

Oh man, Blaze can hold it FOREVER!!! Seriously! But we usually let him out between 7:30 and 8...still, he's almost never ever had an accident no matter what the case!

[dogzr#1]

Astra doesn't have a good bladder so she sometimes comes and wakes us up at 3 or earlier. Sometimes she waits for my parents to let her out when they get up at 5. Molly stays asleep until I get up at 6 and that is when I let her out. Prince is a sleepy head and waits until around 7:30 to be let out. We let them out at that time right before we leave for school. Molly can hold her pee for a long time too. When she was spayed she didn't go the entire time she was at the vets so when she got home she peed for a good few minutes.

[wolf_Q]

Nebo sleeps in my room and will sleep in until whatever time I get up. If I have to get up early (6:30 or so) for work he'll get up then too...though sometimes I have to call him a few times to get him up, he's a lazy boy. If it's the weekend and I want to sleep in, he sleeps in.

My mom said once I got my own dog I could never sleep in again...she was definitely wrong on that one!

The schnauzers (mostly Reggie) will usually bark early in the morning to be let outside though somehow I manage to sleep through it most of the time...my mom gets up early and lets them out.

[slleipnir]

Whenever I get up is when they go out. They stay sleeping till I get out of bed. Although my dad will let them out before he goes to work at 7 if they need to go.

[slleipnir]

The schnauzers (mostly Reggie) will usually bark early in the morning to be let outside though somehow I manage to sleep through it most of the time...my mom gets up early and lets them out.

I wasn't so lucky there hehe

[chocolatepuppy]

6:00 a.m. Mandy gets me up even on the weekends, she can't tell which day it is.