Punching the Time Clock

Earlier today, someone asked our owner if we sleep all day.  As we sat there thinking of whether this person deserved our attention or not (or course they deserve our attention), we also thought about whether this was a valid question or just a sarcastic jab at our energy level, we started wondering how do we really spend our days???

After about ten minutes or serious, deep thought, here is a percentage breakdown with we came up with:

50% sleeping
20% begging for food/eating
20% working (home security/personal security/canine duty (sniffing trees,flowers,etc))
10% exercising

Usually, from about 6-7am (depending on when we get up) until about 9am, we take care of the exercising and begging for food/eating, but that time is also usually mixed in with some work (either indoors from a window sill or outdoors in our yard/a neighbor's yard). 

From 9am until 4-5pm, we usually get most of our sleeping in.  To be fair, our owner says that we spend a percentage of this time begging for his lunch and/or working (usually, this is where we take care of the indoor home security (mailman, garbage man, people on the sidewalk, squirrels, etc). 

From 5pm until about 6-7pm, we either are begging/eating or exercising (depending on whether or not we were exercised in the AM).  On a good day, the exercise is combined with a car ride (YES!!), but those are definitely not an 'everyday' occurance.

From 7pm until 10pm, we mix in naps with a little bit of home security.  Then from 10pm until 6-7am, we're in a complete slumber as we take advantage of the dark, cool room to get our REM sleep in for the night.

Not a bad life, huh?  Included in this post is a pic of us caught in one our daily acts.  We hope you enjoy!