[Jennifer]

...do you feed your beagles their evening meal?

and

...what time do your adult dogs wake up in the morning?

I feed Rosa and Sherry their dinner at about 6pm and Rosa has always been fine with this but Sherry wakes early because she seems to be hungry. Rosa will happily sleep until 8-9am if I'm not getting up for work but Sherry is awake and whining at 5am /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif and she doesn't stop if I ignore her, she just gets very agitated.

It's not because she wants to go out because she can use the dog door and does. It must be coz she is hungry because she walks to her bowl then if I give her her breakfast she eats then goes back to sleep.

I accept she might be hungry but I really don't want her waking me up at 5am. I could delay her evening meal by a couple of hours but that might upset Rosa who has been fed at 6pm all her life.

/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif I don't know what to do.

 

[Jennifer]

Thanks for replies.

Genie...a bedtime snack sounds an idea. I'm sure I could manage it without Rosa knowing because Rosa is a very heavy sleeper and when she's in a deep sleep and snoring for England I can eat myself and she won't wake. I can even eat cheese and open and close the fridge many times without her stirring /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif

Or failing that, she often goes outside for late night territory survelliance duties so I could sneek in a quick Sherry snack then :hi:

I'd rather not give them both a snack because Rosa is a little bit "fluffy"

I'll give it a try tonight.

PS: I can't leave food out 24/7 because Rosa would eat it all and get even more "fluffy" than she already is