or you will stare at your mommy for hours

ok this is rita's day

 you MUST wake  mommy  at 4 am (almost on the dot) to go potty)

then go back to bed til mommy's  alarm goes off  goes off and she has to drag you out of bed to back out and potty

back to sleep til she goes into her crate for the day (because SOMEBODY pottys in the house durring the day) If it is Thursday she goes to Lolas's playhouse for a day of play with other little dogs

oh she MUST have a treat when she goes into her crate

(oh if it is saturday and mommy is being lazy on the couch and napping she  MUST wake me up to remind her to give her her morning treat , Literally she will wake me up for a treat )

when daddy gets home  you MUST run like heck to get outside  to potty she made it

then daddy MUST get the food ready whille they are out side or there will be heck to pay

then mommy comes home and you MUST licker her all over her face  and sniff her ALL over or she will follow her around til she can

 then mommy gets settled  after working her long day Rita  MUSTstare  until  Mommy thinks it is Chewy time"

then after that is play time and  you MUST play tug o war  or fetch for about an hour as mommy is watching tv  then by then it is almost 9 pm on the dot she is on the couch alseep

 This is rita's day and mommy  MUST  stick to it   and if i am slacking she lets me know it by shredding a toy when i am not looking ,  But i do swear the Rattys can tell time

Our house is very routine as well:

Everyone gets up at 6:00 am, I take Fred and Alice outside and they both do their thing, we see daddy off to work at 6:30 then we have some coffee and straighten up the house (so it is nice and clean to come home to)

I start getting ready for work around 7am (and I don't know what they do here but there is always a lot of ruckus and pitter patter of pawns up and down the steps) at 7:30 they get breakfast and back outside for a pee before I leave. I leave about 7:40 and they  both have run of the house so I don't know what goes on here again! )

I get home about 4:45 and lots of jumping and licking goes on here then we go right outside and everyone does their thing. They both get fed and I start dinner. Alice finds a bone and lays on her blanket chewing away and Fred just watches everything. As dinner is cooking we go for a walk (on nice days) or we train. Then daddy gets home and while we eat dinner they eat their dingo treats then we usually watch tv or a movie and this is their hard play time from 7-8, they get all their toys out and tug and run and stomp and jump and race and everything else. Then they chew chewy bones a little more then they find which human and couch has the better blanket and snuggle in about 9pm. Alice usually lays with my boyfriend and Fred ususally lays with me or they both go in their Taj Ma Cage (it's loaded with blankets and pillows and it's huge!) and we settle in for the night.

That's our routine and it works for all of us!