Dogs Don't Know It's Saturday
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
United States
February 11, 2017 6:02am CST
So much for sleeping in this morning. At 5:30, when my missus didn't get up to let them out as she does during the week, Ginger and Ace came around to my side of the bed and woke me up. Wanting to let my missus get some much needed sleep, I dutiful rose and let them out. I also made myself a cup of coffee and logged in to check my notifications and read some of y'all's discussions.
By the time the coffee was made, the dogs were ready to come back in and have breakfast. I fed them, and then sat down to the computer.
It is now 7 a.m. and my missus has just come downstairs, happy that the dogs have been out and fed. I hope her gratitude will extend to making me breakfast.
Do you have pets who don't understand weekends and won't let you sleep in on your days off?
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@Juliaacv (56218)
• Canada
11 Feb 17
My husband stayed at our son's place last week, and the dog loved it when he got up at 3:45 to get ready for work, because she got to go outside. I'm sure that over the weekend she will be wanting to go outside early too, but that is something that our son will have to deal with!
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
11 Feb 17
I close and lock my bedroom door at night, so the animals do not disturb me. Of course I have a bunch of kids who tend to wake up early even on the weekends, so the dog is usually let out even when I sleep in.
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
12 Feb 17
@DWDavis My dog will typically sleep with the kids..
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
12 Feb 17
@katsmeow1213 Ginger used to sleep in our youngest son's room, before he went to school. Ace came to live with us after the boys were grown and gone.
@rebelann (117206)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Feb 17
I can't really claim any of that, I'm retired so I don't have a schedule to follow but I do get those occasional mornings around 3 or 4am when Ally sits by my bed and stares at me until I wake up. I don't know how she does it because she never makes a sound and I dutifully wake up. HA, I'm such a well trained 2legger
So, did she make you a nice big breakfast?
yikes 
@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
11 Feb 17
No pets in this house, when we downsized our pets had passed on and we decided not to get more, we are retired and like to leave at the drop of a hat...Good for you for letting the misses sleep, My husband and I are both early risers, he heads for the gym and I read the paper in quiet.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
12 Feb 17
@DWDavis My sister and I love to camp. Her dog went with us the first year, then the year of the Bears arrived. New York closed the dumps and went to land fill, and we didn't know it. The bears who ate in those dumps were all over the campgrounds and the dog went crazy, we phoned our father and had him come up and take the dog home. That was the only time we took a dog camping. Ginger and Ace are beautiful!
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
12 Feb 17
@PainsOnSlate We've not had any bear problems. Squirrels on the other hand...
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
11 Feb 17
Dogs will be dogs, and cats will be cats. They're such creatures of habit. All my days are days off, but Orville the osprey likes to wake us up at 7:11AM sharp! Doodles entertains himself looking out the window, but will walk on me and meow if he's too hungry. Gotta love them. Your dogs are so cute!
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Feb 17
@DWDavis And perhaps you have a similar story? Vince thought farmers' daughters were rich (or would be one day) and I thought anyone who worked in a bank must be wealthy. We were both pretty wrong but we've struggled through. :) We also differed in our schooling as Vince attended a Catholic school run by nuns and I went to the State school.
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@snowy22315 (208776)
• United States
12 Feb 17
My kitty likes me to be up in the morning at a certain time, and I don't think he differentiates weekdays from weekends.
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
11 Feb 17
I don't really have work days or off days but my dogs are actually patient when it comes to going outside in the morning. =)
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Feb 17
I am the dog person in the am - I get up at 5:30 or so every morning. And Ruby eats first then goes out. All days of the week are the same when you don't work.
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@paigea (36143)
• Canada
11 Feb 17
Our cat stays in the heated garage and we can't hear him from the bedroom. In the summer though he jumps up on the deck railing and meows loudly into our open bedroom window. No sleeping in then! We can't leave his food in the garage for him as other cats come in his cat door!
Last week he was waiting at the back door when I got up and another cat was curled up in his cozy bed under the heater.
I need to find out if these other cats have home. My poor kitty seems so timid he gives up his bed!
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
12 Feb 17
We used to have several cats that would frequent our porch for a free meal, before SBC came here to live. He was a big, black, tom and he would not allow other cats to poach the food we left out on the front porch. Even though he's been gone a couple years now, the other cats still stay away. We do have opossums who visit once in a while, and the odd raccoon.
@teamfreak16 (43571)
• Denver, Colorado
11 Feb 17
Are those your dogs? Those are good looking dogs!
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
12 Feb 17
That's Ginger, our Brittany, in front, followed closely by Ace, our mini-Schnauzer. We've had Ginger since she was a puppy. She's actually my youngest sons dog but he's away at college. Ace is a rescue we adopted two years ago. He's my little buddy.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
11 Feb 17
I have two cats and even though they don't always come in to wake us up in the morning they make sure we get up. They will be running around the house chasing each other. Making lots of noise. We will get up and walk out of the bedroom and they both will be sitting there looking at us like "what? We weren't doing nothing." lol
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@miesse2 (226)
• Canada
12 Feb 17
I have a pet and children that don't understand that it is the weekend, my dog will jump on me and howl every morning at exactly 5:45 and when I get up to bring her out (I must go with her unfortunately or she'll run) I normally have 2 of my 6 kids up and about looking for food no matter what day it is. Oh well I guess it's nice to have a firm routine in place!
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
12 Feb 17
I do not have week ends as such since I am a home body but Preiti does wake me up at ghastly hours sometimes.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
11 Feb 17
Don't have pets, but your dogs do seem sprightly 
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Feb 17
Animals are smarter. Every day's a party with them lol! We humans are slaves to our created days of the week.
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@pammooratan (4668)
• India
12 Feb 17
Yes you are right my little dog often forget vacations.
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