Not the time he got accustomed to before, and not just me stirring around (details about this part in “My Personal Challenge” below). He internalized that time of day as “time to get up.” I wanted his new cue to be me getting dressed. You are teaching them a new cue for getting up or “dogs are active now.” Lewis’ previous cue, I assume, was the staff arriving at the vet clinic, and that was probably at a consistent time. Keep this up for a week or more at that oh-so-early time.If they’ve been getting you up at 5:30 AM, get up at 5:10 AM. Using the information you got, get up earlier than your dog, consistently, every day.Include workdays and non-workdays in your record-keeping. For 3–5 days, record the time your dog gets you up in the morning.Here are the steps I took, written out as instructions. It’s tough to convince yourself to get up earlier as a step toward the goal of getting up later. The concept is simple: it starts with getting up earlier than your dog. Lewis had already learned to sleep through the night, so we didn’t have to work around house training at the same time. In that case, don’t try this as I have written it. If you have a young puppy, you’ll be on their schedule for a while. This plan is for an adult or late adolescent dog who has no problem sleeping through the night without having to get up to eliminate. I taught him to get up much later, and in general, to wait until I was ready to get up. It took every ounce of willpower I had, but I did it. Then I reminded myself of the training plan and talked to Marge Rogers about it. “My dog gets me up at 5!” or “My dog is getting up earlier and earlier!” But I had some immediate panic. I knew there was a fix for this problem I had even recommended it to some of the desperate people posting about their morning woes on social media.
Because when I first got eight-month-old Lewis, we sure weren’t going back to bed after we got up. And suddenly my morning work time, my prime time, was gone. My normal schedule for the past few years has been to get up sometime between 7:00 and 9:00 AM, then work in bed for a couple of hours before I take dogs out and do “getting up” chores.
The problem, and it was a big one, was that on Lewis’ schedule, I lost my morning work time. But the switch to getting up early was not the problem. My current hours lean more toward the night owl. Now, I’ve been both an early bird and a night owl, and sometimes, unfortunately, both. He was ready to get up in the morning between 5:00 and 6:00 AM. When Lewis first came, he had just spent 10 critical weeks of his puppyhood living in a vet’s office. Posted on JDecemby Eileen Anderson Lewis sleeps in
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