I get up pretty early every morning, no later than 9 on the weekends...Duncan is very good about waiting until I get up. He'll jump on the bed and cuddle up close to me. I'll let him out to pee only. Then we'll come in, he'll eat breakfast and then it's either back to bed or we get up and go to the park and play!! Sometimes we disagree, I want to sleep, he wants to play but he usually comes around w/o much fuss. We go #2 on the second walk of the day in the afternoon or during the work week, once in the am and once in the evening. He's amazingly good about it!!!