What's your morning routine?

Betty does the following:
1) sleeps in her bed on the floor next to my bed
2) at my parents she sneaks onto their bed at some point in the night and they don't usually notice!! With me she often pops her head up and sticks her paws on the side of the bed at around 6.30am ish when I left her onto my bed and she settles down at my feet.
3) Usually I pop her straight outside as soon as I get up for her to go to the toilet. If I am in the office I get up at about 6am as I leave for the office at 6.45am (so she rarely gets on my bed if I am up early) but on a work from home day or a day when I am going out to a site for a meeting (I work for a construction company so go to building sites 2 or 3 times a week) I get up about 7.15am. Then once she has been to the toilet, she shoots straight back into my bedroom and generally now leaps striaght back into her bed until I am showered and dressed. Sometimes she lies on my bed thought whilst I am gettin dressed.

When I leave the house early she gets picked up by the dog walker at 9am and she knows the routine as she sits on her blanket on the sofa once I am dressed and waits for her treat that I give her as I leave!!

Sounds like we have a few cockapoos who sleep in the bedroom!!!

Rosie sleeps in the kitchen in her crate too! She's not allowed upstairs at all.

Normally, my husband is up first and he gets ready then lets himself out through the side door of our house, which means he doesn't go near Rosie. She is used to this now, so generally ignores the first noises she hears, but starts barking when she hears me get up (we fool her on occasions like this morning when I was up first). I go straight downstairs in my PJs and let her out for a wee, then take her into the utility room for her breakfast. Then it's back to the garden for a poo, then a bit of Mummy/Rosie time and then back in her crate while I go upstairs to get ready (I've tried letting her stay in the kitchen, but she gets more worked up that way).

She's generally quiet until I get the kids up and then she barks again when she hears them. On a work day, our nanny arrives about 7.45 and Rosie quietens down then for some reason. I go downstairs and say goodbye and she gives me the 'you're abandoning me' look that the kids have clearly taught her! On a Mummy Day, I get the kids ready with Rosie barking the whole time and then we go down and let her out and we have breakfast with her sniffing around the place (until she tries to jump up at the table and gets put back in her crate again - it's been fab this week with the warmer weather, because I've just opened the back door and let her mooch around outside while we eat).

But our routine gets shaken up ALL the time, so she's learning not to expect anything particularly.

They are adaptable aren't they? Such different routines!

Well done Bella!!! Betty actually chose not to get up the other week when I was getting up at 6am for work and stayed flat out snoozing in her bed til I was showered and dressed and then I had to get her up to take her out to the toilet before I went to work as I thought she might not survive until the dog walker arrived 2 hours later!!! When I first got her I thought that day would NEVER arrive so was very chuffed when it did!!!!

Love all the different routines!! I would probably not have had Betty sleeping in my room if I hadn't lived in a flat. The couple of times she's stayed at my friends who has a dog too, they have both slept in the kitchen. At my parents she sleeps in their room at the end of their bed in her bed and as her blanket in her bed is black its difficult to tell if she is in her bed and one night my mum said she popped to the loo after my dad had come to bed and shut their door and she bent down to check if Betty was there and she wasn't!!! She'd gone out of their room before dad came to bed and mum hadn't noticed and was asleep on the bed where I sleep!! So I think she'd probably sleep anywhere these days as she's got more settled!!