our dogs get put to sleep at 9pm daily. their routine is, to let them out to pee, then tell them to go in their kennel, then they get a biscuit, then lights are turned out. the dogs know this routine so well that a lot of times, I don't even say a word and it all happens like clockwork.

if its past 9 and the dogs aren't tucked in yet, Dh will nag me about the dogs needing to get sleep.

It's not like the dogs have to get up early to go to work. also, they sleep during most of the day anyway.

I find this really funny, yet endearing.

Am I alone in this?

LOL, my dog sleeps all day (and night) if I let her.

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LOL...well, I'm not sure that our kitties exactly have a bedtime. When we first got them, we would get ready for bed, turn the lights out...and for some reason, the kitties THOUGHT it was PLAY TIME!LOL This went on for several weeks! I didn't think I'd EVER get a good nights sleep.

They eventually caught on to when the lights go out, that means bedtime for EVERYONE.

They seem to have a routine though. Somewhere around 9:30 - 10/10:30 pm...they both go through a "hunting" phase...walking around the house to make sure everything is in its place. At some point, they BOTH have a good before bedtime "big potty"! Then they have a romp through the house...I guess they feel better after the potty thing.LOL Then after we're in bed, one or the other may jump up for a last minute snuggle/petting...and then everyone settles down.

Sometimes, I can hear them playing with their toys after we've gone to bed...but that usually doesn't last too long.

Paula

At 10 pm I let them all out to tee tee. They come back in and they get a little bedtime snack (a half a handful of kibble) then we all retire to the bedroom. They all have their own beds but the 2 smaller dogs get on the bed with us, until I say "get in your own bed"....and they DO! Night-night everybody! LOL

our blue heeler seems to know it is bedtime for US when the weather is over on the news. If we stay up past that he sits in front of us and barks. We sit on the sofa and when we go to bed HE gets the sofa so he encourages us to go to bed, lol.

Chops, very cute . . I'm visualizing your pets getting into their pj's, brushing their teeth and settling down for a bedtime story. Our dogs don't really have a bedtime per se but they do seem to have routine that they naturally go through each night.

I have 5 cats, 3 who stay inside all the time. When I turn out the lights, they settle down, and go to sleep. The other night, my little girl cat was in the window in my bedroom. She fell asleep, and I fell asleep. Sometime during the night, I heard this loud crash. She had fallen off the window ledge. She sleeps on the window ledges, the edges of tables, her favorite place to sleep is on the front room couch, her behind on the back of the couch, her head on the window ledge. She has also fallen off that. MOst of the time, they're pretty quiet during the night.

Hoosie goes to bed when I do whether it's 9pm or 3am. He sleeps most of the day anyway. I just say let's go to bed and he beats me to the bedroom, get's in his cabana and looks out to make sure I'm in the room. If for some reason, I don't stay in the room, he'll come looking for me and then beat me to the bedroom all over again. He took over the cabana from my late step-dog. Scratches out the pillow in it and it's lights out.

All 3 of our mini doxies had a specific bed time. The 1st one used to bark once from the hallway at 10 PM. If we didn't got to bed then, she would go get in our bed without us. The 2nd one would bark about 10 PM and go get in our bed and if we didn't come, she would come back and bark at us until we came to bed, then she would absolutely race me to the bed and jump up and put her head on my pillow. The 3rd doxi would bark once and then just sit down and wait until we made a move towards the bedroom and if we didn't go right away he would go without us. All of our doxie's would get under the cover and go to the foot of the bed to sleep. Now our black lab just goes into our bedroom when he wants to and lays down on his bed next to DH's side. He will come out and get us if he thinks we're staying up too late.

We close our bedroom door so the cat can't come in during the night, because he will wake us up moving from spot to spot to sleep.

My dogs don't have a bed time but like others they seem to know about when I usually go to bed. I recently had to travel to Africa for work for a month and when i got back it took about a week before I was back on schedule. The first night I was up WAY later than my normal time. The 2 dogs that sleep in the kitchen stayed with me for a while but both eventually went to bed. I thought it was pretty funny.

Our dogs are retired, and usually asleep before most dog"s bedtime.

Our wake-up time is usually set by the bladders of two greyhound's need to go out though.

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Chops, very cute . . I'm visualizing your pets getting into their pj's, brushing their teeth and settling down for a bedtime story.

LOL!!

We should start brushing their teeth though, but have been really lax about starting

My Cavalier Betsy goes to her crate between 9 and 9:30 every night. If I don't put her to bed around that time, she gets antsy and starts to meddle. A quick trip outside, a dog biscuit and then to the crate.

The time between when I put Betsy in her crate and the time we go to bed is the time that the kitties get their supper and have laptime. Betsy and the cats get along fine, but they know that once she goes to bed, they can have my undivided attention for a bit.

Our Babies are in bed at 8:30 every night
and up at 5:30 a.m. like clock work..
they get up and got out back, get a drink and back
to sleep till about 8:00 a.m.

I have 2 dogs that are 85 lbs and 115lbs. They have lab in them but i do not know what else. I have 6 cats (indoors - country with coyotes) All of my cats are strays that I have found hurt.

My dogs still have their cages in my solarium, never locked but this is theirs. At 9:00 every night they get up and go to bed. I have a baby gate and lock it and by the time I get into the kitchen - all 6 cats appear from the upstairs for their dinner and lounge around for the rest of the night until 8:00 in the morning. All of the animals are on a schedule. i could do it otherwise. I am ocd on cleanliness and order and 8 animals is a lot to handle.

I have two Yorkies -- Raleigh is very happy-go-lucky and Amber is a little high-strung (to put it mildly). But if we stay up past 9:00 pm, they will let us know it's bedtime. Raleigh will start whining and looking down the hallway toward the bedroom and before I can get the words "are you ready to go to bed?" out, he's down the hallway in a flash! It's comical. He also has a foot/sock fetish--he "must" have my DH's socks at bedtime to sleep with -- like a security blanket. He gets upset if DH is not wearing socks (he has had to get a sock or two out of the laundry hamper before to satisfy him). Amber, on the other hand, wants to be "carried" to bed (like the Queen she is). I used to do it just for laughs, but I stopped and "make" her walk to bed by herself! LOL - she just lays on the LR floor until she realizes that I'm not going to carry her, and then she'll get up like she's mad and come to bed. As soon as the lights are out, they're both snoring. They are so funny.

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if its past 9 and the dogs aren't tucked in yet, Dh will nag me about the dogs needing to get sleep

just guessing but I'd bet DH wants private time

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