The Schedule

Flof has a regular schedule.

His primary job is to provide us company and protection. But, he really sleeps a lot. He tells me he works 24/7, even when he's napping.

He's a 12-year-old dog, which really means he's like 84 (Mel, I did the math for you; you're welcome). So, really, it's ok that he sleeps about 20 hours/day. No matter how you cut it, he's a senior citizen.

The Schedule usually goes like this:

6:30 am--get up (Human Seniors usually get up early, too) go outside to potty.
Note: even though he's 12, he's still not mature enough to go out and do his business without being supervised and on a leash. We live on 5 acres and we don't have a fenced in yard. So, Zel gets up, gets dressed, including winter coat and hat (even in August, cause that's how it is up here), leashes Flof up and takes him out to potty.

7:00 am--eat breakfast.

7:30-9:00 am--Flof is usually awake, because we're getting ready for work.

9:00 am-4:30 pm--all day nap. Napping usually occurs on his couch. Yes, he has his own furniture. Sometimes, he even falls asleep reading the paper.
We take him out as soon as we get home.
Note: sometimes, one of us gets done with work early and comes home at like 2:00 or 3:00, and we are careful to not disturb the Master Napper. I mean, you come home and disturb a nap, you get in trouble, which includes a snotty attitude and grunting from Flof. Sometimes, he's really out, and gets pissed off if you wake him up. I mean, sometimes, when he's out, it's like he wouldn't hear the UPS truck if it pulled up.

Since we've been on vacation for the last week and a half, we've encouraged Flof to take a post-breakfast, pre-lunch, mid-morning nap. He is usually down with this. We've also encouraged him to take a post-lunch, mid-afternoon, pre-dinner nap. He's usually down with this, too.

5:00 pm--eat dinner (he let's us know when it's 5:00).

5:15 pm--post dinner potty.

5:30 pm--post-dinner half-nap. This is only a half-nap because Flof only half sleeps. I'm usually making dinner and when someone is in the kitchen, that means food, and sometimes that means cheese or bacon or a bite of chicken for The Boy, which means no sleep post-dinner.

6:30-8:00 pm--post dinner/pre half-way to bedtime potty trip nap.

8:00 pm--half-way to bedtime potty trip.
Note: at 8:00, on the dot, Flof will whine at us letting us know he needs to go. If we're watching a movie, we do our best to start it so that it doesn't interfere with the half-way to bedtime potty trip. We've told our vet that Flof can tell time, but she thinks we're crazy.)

10:00--bedtime potty trip.
Note: again, whines at 10:00 to let us know its bedtime. We've mentioned this to the vet, she thinks we smoke crack, which we don't [just for the record, in case I'm one of the tapees, you're wasting your time and I've never smoked crack.].

Flof generally sleeps from 10:00 pm - 6:30 am. And The Schedule starts all over again.