Summertime

[Anne123]

Did you change last night to summertime? How do your dogs react to this?

Finn was surprised when I came down an hour too early...He is so much focused on habits that it will take some time to adjust to time changes. More to wintertime then summertime.

 

[Atemas]

Yes - up an hour early in this house to ‘seize the day’. Dogs not in least bit bothered - only too keen as always to have their breakfast . They both sleep from 7.00 pm onwards so not anticipating problems - we might be in bed extra early though

 

[edzbird]

We just absorbed it by getting up at 8:30 (yesterday's 7:30), both dogs are very flexible as to what time we get up. If they NEED to get up (to toilet) one of us will let them out, then all back to bed. Tea time might be a surprise, it'll be an hour early for them...but then they often get it an hour early when OH is in charge during the week

 

[Jen]

Stanley hasn’t noticed. We get up different times anyway and he’s a good lad who’s happy to chill until we appear.

I imagine tea time appearing early will brighten up his day though

 

[Jacqui-S]

I think it's more of an issue when the clocks go back!!

 

[Boogie]

Ideal - Spencer tends to wake a bit too early for me (6am) so this morning it was 7am.

 

[Cath]

Fred and Annie didn't notice, but I did

 

[Lab_adore]

Our clocks go back next weekend but luckily I have a week off in between jobs to gradually get used to it.

 

[SteffiS]

Our whole day was a muddle anyway, I dashed off to the boot fair at 7.30 leaving OH in charge (don’t ask). My daughter and her partner came over in the afternoon so Toffee didn’t go to sleep at all. Then we had the first week of Toffee’s novice training, a 40 minute drive away, at 6.30pm.
By this time Toffee was so hyper and overexcited that he was completely out of control . All the other dogs seemed like angels compared to him. He’d forgotten how to sit, walked backwards round the hall instead of at heel, and kept trying to play bitey face with anyone near him.

He finally managed a 1 minute sit stay at the end of the hour as he was probably too knackered to do anything else. Then, of course, he fell completely asleep in the car, I had a job to wake him when I got home and he still hadn’t had his dinner.
OH got short shrift when he told me how tired he was from his long day at home .

 

[Cath]

Well today is another day, it happens. Hope you have a better one.

 

[Atemas]

that he was completely out of control

Goodness I remember those early training days with Red - I found them very stressful

 

[SteffiS]

Goodness I remember those early training days with Red - I found them very stressful

I’ve just signed up to a six week meditation course that popped up on my Facebook this morning, obviously the gods were looking down on me and saw I needed some help (or the Facebook algorithm is truly amazing ).