and I get up when the dog tells me too
If it's before 4 am - I go back to bed until the morning news comes on...
(5:00 - 5:30 - depending on whether I feel like "3-TV... The Place with More Stuff" or "Rick and Alona... who tend to bore me back into 30 more minutes of sleep )

But - if Cruise doesn't cruise bedside before 5 am... when he's up... I'm up.

I like getting up early... I do email and Ebay and CB and mail IN PEACE AND QUIET 'til 7am...

At 7 am, I warm up the cattle prod
Nothing short of that will keep Wyatt from crawling behind a piece of furniture next to a heater vent and stealing 15 more minutes of shut-eye (I have found him behind the couch... under an end table... in the laundry room... and he switches vents if I don't watch him

I wonder if I'd get up at all if I didn't have a kid and dog????