Chummie the Night Owl

Last night, Chum started barking and whimpering near the back door at around 1am. She doesn't usually do this. She's experiencing intermittant stomach distress and I've been trying to figure out if her yummy marrow bones are responsible or if there is some other cause -- car excitement, too many biscuits, etc. I waited about 20-25 minutes (such a meanie!) and finally decided she must really need to go out. :oops:

So I let her out and she scurried about in the back, finding a place to do her business. . . :roll:

Anyway, after she is done, she comes around the other side of the car and then just plops on the ground there like she wants to sleep near her beloved car for the night! 8O I live in the city and my gate doesn't lock so I couldn't leave her outside. I had to lure her back in with a treat!
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Val, Panda LOVES to sleep outside in this weather...I cant keep her in...she also wants out at 2-3 am, I let her out and re lock the door...we have a locked gate, so it makes all the difference in the world....she may be testing you again....try telling her "No, go back to sleep! Nigh, nigh time." It works with Panda during the summer months when she sleeps inside with me....or just ignore her.....see what happens.....
Ordinarily Chum loves to come upstairs for "bedtime" and usually sleeps through the night. I think she needed to go out but then once she got outside, she definitely wanted to stay out. The weather was perfect. Maybe I could put a bicycle lock through the handles. . .
2:30am I am rudely awakened by a VERY LOUD "Baroo roo!...baroo roo!" So, I say in my 2:30am voice: "Pooh, come here" he does, I pet him, he slinks down and fall back to sleep.....bad dream I guess...
Abby does this too, late at night after going out to do her business it's like she just wants to enjoy the air, and the quiet, and the cool grass on her belly. I usually let her lay for a few minutes and sit with her for a bit.
jsmarcus wrote:
2:30am I am rudely awakened by a VERY LOUD "Baroo roo!...baroo roo!"


I love the sound of his bark! That's adorable. Wonder what he was dreaming about. . .
Willowsprite wrote:
Abby does this too, late at night after going out to do her business it's like she just wants to enjoy the air, and the quiet, and the cool grass on her belly. I usually let her lay for a few minutes and sit with her for a bit.


Boy you are nice. That's seems like exactly what Chumley was feeling (substitute cement for grass-- but also cool). I was too tired to stay out there with her, but I felt really bad about getting her to come inside. I wonder how long she would have stayed out there. . . Maybe if I let her out there earlier in the evening when I'm watching tv . . .
I think a lot of it is just loving the cooler weather. Clyde and Lucy are in and out through the dog door no less than 20 to 30 times a day now. Clyde has even taken to sleeping on the patio, which he's never done before. It would be fine if all the outside time didn't result in more sticks being brought in the house!
Interesting! Bogart too loves this cooler weather. When we first got him he would sleep atop of the a/c registers in our floors. Now that we have turned the heat on- he goes out and doesn't want to come back in. My husband says- boy- is he ever stubborn- Ha!

He has now taken to laying on the marble in front of the fireplace....wait til we turn that on....yikes!
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