I wanted to sleep in a little this morning, after planning on going to bed at 9 pm, and finally executing said plan around 11:50pm. At 5am I get a cold nose to the forehead, from Michelle’s service dog, a massive 2-month old Great Dane. This is how she asks to go out. I tell her to lay down again, hoping I could get another 30 mins of muchneeded sleep. In 10 minutes, there is another nudge to the head from out of the dark. Then my brain starts working, trying to envision the mess that a 100+ pound dog could make, if they just couldn’t wait. It hasn’t happened but once or twice when she was a pup, but the memory, and clean-up, are etched in my sleepy brain.
Max our German Shepard met me at the door to the bedroom waiting. I let everyone out, got them back in, and laid down on the couch. Then they took turns coming over and touching their nose to mine, till I got up and fed them. Wide awake finally, I decide to come in here to the office.
What do they do? Lay down behind me on the floor, and go to sleep! 
So typical of dogs, Ron. Once they are sure you are up and about, they go back to sleep!
Nice shot of them together too.
Best wishes, Pete.
Thanks Pete, I had to take the shot over my shoulder. You got to love them.
Mollie is only 7 lbs but when she needs a pet in the early a.m. it’s a lot like a 100 pound dog. Ok, maybe not quite but she doesn’t take no for an answer.
Animals can come up with some humorous antics, to get us out of bed.
With a Great Dane, one wonders, who is servicing who!
Yes, with a strong sturdy Dane, Michelle has no problem keeping her balance. Thank you for the comment Elizabeth.
So Ben, our one year old Standard Poodle, (Benjamin Franklin Fiddler,) our BFF, does his thing early AM with a nose sneeze.FYI: https://qz.com/1070828/wild-dog-packs-count-sneezes-to-vote-democratically-on-whether-to-go-hunting/
I heard the same thing recently on an NPR Pod Cast also. Guess it’s better than walking barefooted in Poo. Thank the Lord they let us know.
Your so right about the poo Rooster. That dog-gone (no pun intended) flapping of the ears late at night is a rude wake up. Good to see you Rooster!
😀 They want to keep you on your toes!
They certainly manage to do that!
Argghh! Lol! No sleeping in allowed when we have pets! Did you say 100+ lbs. at 2 months?!?!?!? Holy moly, man! That’s some big baby!!
Yes, we laugh because when we first brought her home, she could wall under the shepard’s stomach. Now he is shorter than her by a bit.
And you thought the easy life began when the kids left home. Ha ha ha.
Your so right Sandy. I had this uneasy feeling in my mind though, that something would take their place, in the attention getting department.
Awww! Good to see you around WordPress, it’s been a while.
Well now that I look I see you have been posting. I am not seeing you in the WordPress Reader Feed. Hmmm. I wonder why? Are you seeing me? There has been some trouble with this on WordPress lately.
I don’t know what is happening with WordPress in the last few months. I just checked and I am set to receive emails from you, nothing in my spam folder. I checked my settings and they look fine.
My indicator at the top of my screen hasn’t changed at all for nearly 2 months, unless i click on it, for new posts on those I follow. Yesterday, it lit up, I clicked it, and I had 27 marked as new , trouble was, half of them were comments that had been posted here and other blogs, and I had already responded to them.
They really need to get the system straight. It’s frustrating when you can’t depend on it.
Thanks for the comment, great to see you as always.
That is just not fair, and you can tell them I said so.
I’m working with them, I’m not sure who’s training who, at this point. 🙂