Dog with internal clock for feeding time

[matthewb0051]

We have a 8ish yo beagle that we adopted a couple of years ago. She has always started stirring around the closer to 5 it gets for her dinner. In mid-September we moved from Eastern time zone to Central time zone, which really screwed with her internal eating clock. Then about 6 weeks later we had the time change to Daylight savings time. So she's all F'd up now.

Now she starts stirring between 3 and 3:30 for her 5 o'clock feeding. Today is was 4pm when she began pacing, thankfully. Its funny but in a way annoying AF.

Anyone else ever had this or know how to get her back on track???

[matthewb0051]

[Rusty Heap]

you nailed our dog on the head with an internal clock and an hour early pacing starts at 3:30-4

who is training who? we know who rules, the tail.

[GH85Carrera]

Both our dogs have clocks. Amazing accurate. Going to daylight savings is easy, they love that early eating. Going back takes a month to reset their clocks.

[varmint]

They eat when we eat. They’re keyed in on my wife. When she goes to the kitchen they know. Sometimes they look at her, look at her, look at the kitchen, look at her and so on.

Walk times they go by their clocks. Doesn’t matter if 7am became three hours before dawn. They still want their walk.

[matthewb0051]

Its funny bc we have another dog, a terri poo. He eats when he is hungry. And if mommy is not home he will defer eating until she returns even if that is a few days.

I think the prior owners fed the beagle constantly. She was 45lbs when we got her. Down closer to 30 now.

[arcsine]

Our first great dane had an amazing accurate internal clock. Not only for food but when it was time to go to bed and when to get up. He knew that it was OK for him to be on the bed as long as we had lights on and it was OK to get back up when the alarm went off. So as soon as the lights went out, he would dutifully step off to his bed for the night. In the morning, usually a couple of minutes before the alarm, I would hear him pacing around the room. At the first hint of a beep, the bed would shake as he stepped up onto it, wedge himself between the wife and I and immediately go back to sleep.
Miss that dog.

[pwd72s]

Pets care not at all about daylight saving time switches....

[rfuerst911sc]

Our female daschund ( RIP ) would wake up from a dead sleep at feeding time , we were amazed how accurate she was . After she passed our male daschund ( RIP ) took over . While we are all creatures of habit dogs seem to have set patterns that they don't stray from .

[craigster59]

Our Choc Lab has a hellacious internal clock. He knows when it is 11:00 and time for his chicken (Costco rotisserie, don't ask) and knows when it's time for me to come home (sits and looks out the window).

Now if I could just change his 3 AM poop schedule I'd be loving life.

[LWJ]

Yes!!!

[MBAtarga]

Have you any young kids? Babies in particular? They are the same way. Takes a month or so to get them back on "schedule"

[Crowbob]

I didn't know beagles could tell time.

I remember an old lady sincerely arguing that DST is a disaster because it messes up all the animals and birds and other living things, like roosters.

[stealthn]

Miss my dog...

[Bill Douglas]

could be worse. My cat thinks it's games time at about 3:00am.

[Seahawk]

The Atomic Clock isn't as accurate as my Jack Russell terrier at chow time.

The Swiss have built their train schedules around his internal clock.

GPS relies...you get the picture

[1990C4S]

I hear you. My dog is annoying AF around 4PM, when dinner is 5PM. It's a combination of time change and getting dark earlier.

Best to distract him, and wait it out and to train him.

[mattdavis11]

We are the ones that are effed up. As said earlier, they have not one clue what time it is, outside of time to eat.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

Anyone else ever had this or know how to get her back on track???

We go through it twice a year. Just feed them 15 minutes later or earlier every couple of days until they adjust to the new time change.
This fall our dogs thought it was 6 O'clock feeding time when the clock said 5 AM. We fed them at 5:15 for a few days, then 5:30 etc etc.

Being retired we thought we would ignore daylight saving time changes since we seldom have to go anywhere or do anything in the morning, but we are such creatures of habit.

[Baz]

Mine takes her cues from her human. We've been together now for almost 16 years and she knows the routine.

Of course anytime I go to the kitchen she's comes as well.

They don't call Heelers velcro dogs for nothing!

And when it comes to food......nothing is more important!