It must be 10:00, Dyna has her squeaky toy

hi spalladino when I was in my early twenties and working in another town from my home town, I would go home on the Jack Rabbit express a bus line running in rural South dakota. Thedriver always leftme off at the road leading into our farm. the moment that bus stopped my dog Pat would start running that quarter to half mile road to meet me, she never missed, somehow that dog knew the time the bus would stop there and off she would go running hard to meet me. she was not a really big dog, about the size of a small collie and she would be panting by the time she reached the cow guard, and I wo uld wait for her then we would walk slower going back to the house. she never missed once.

Cookie is pretty easy going and will play just about any time I have the time for her but Gus has a routine. He knows that at lunchtime I'll leave the PC and play with him and the same at 5PM, the end of the workday. If I come to the computer between 5 and bedtime, he'll sit there and whine because that's HIS time! He never got the idea of fetching, or it bores him, he always wants to play tug. He has an inner clock so good that you could set a watch by him!

Awww that is so sweet lol Gissi does not have routines, when he says it is playtime then it is and that can be any time lol He does not like toys he prefers his Chewies lol

I can do relate to how you feel if you are not home at ten for Dyna. Are our dogs not the sweetest ever? Roxy & I are still getting routines down pat as my schedule has been the most hectic this past year but no matter what, come 8:30p.m. she is on my like white on rice for her bed time. I don't even have to set a clock. When she is up during the day, her blanket is out on the couch usually as this is where she naps during the day but come bed time, she wants one of her favorite toys, which she will pick up, after coming to me to tell me it is bedtime, so I grab her blanket and she happily trots off to the bedroom. (she sleeps in my bad) and away she goes. A new thing that happens, when we are home, is if I don't go to bed at the same time and am up for over an hour still, I will hear "thunk" as she jumps off the bed and comes to find me, usually with another toy because she wants to play. Our late night (for her) playtime sessions are the very best! It is like she revives and is redy to go. Problem is then the next day she yawns a lot. She is usually up by 4:30-5 a.m., at least to wake me. One time she sat right at my head and put her paw out onto my arm and woke me up. She is so funny sometimes. So I get up and what does she do crawls into the warm spot that I just got out of and makes herself comfy so to laze in bed for another hour or so. By 7:30a.m. we are out for her first walk, before breakfast, on a good day! About two years ago when I first got her, she was still quite young and needed to relieve herself more often. I would be working at home. Often times i would be sitting up, lengthwise on the couch. She would jump up and walk up beside me, proceeding to get on my lap between me and the laptop screen and sit down, looking at me, so to say, come on, lets go for a walk. She would do this every couple hours for at least three times. Our dogs certainly do know how to get our attention. These moments are priceless. Thank you for your discussion. I have enjoyed reading. Doggie antics can be so entertaining.

Animals are amazing like that...My dog knows when it’s five a.m. because she will get up and wait by the back door for me to open it. She is right on the dot every morning and I have often wondered how she knows what time it is, I think there’s a switch in there somewhere! Dyna sounds like a character and grabbing a toy at 10 each night is bizarre, cute though! Don’t you love all the slobber on the toy or ball they fetch back to you?

My dog doesn't have any routines like this. I just wanted to say I bet Dyna can be very entertaining! It sounds like so much fun to watch her and play with this toy with her. My dog can be very entertaining because she's so hyper, anyway. Because she's a Jack Russell Terrier, she can jump very high. I know my nephew called me on my cell phone one day and she just started dancing around at the music, lol! It was so cute! I bet my dog could be taught some tricks but I don't know how to teach them to her. Kathy.