This dog's body clock is killing me.

is she crated at night? my nova is also an early riser (maybe Sadie can come and keep her busy) but I find if i'm willing to crate her at night, she will "sleep" later.

ah well, all hope is lost. ;-) I've just gotten used to getting up early.

I'm not sure it is her body clock, I think it is the time of year.  "Gosh Mom its daily light out, let's get moving!"  Does she sleep in a bit later on dreary rainy mornings?

 My 4 are up with the sun year round, so in winter I get to 'sleep in' later, lol.  And mine aren't young pups!  

Once it gets dark, about 8 right now, mine are ready to call it quits and go to bed.  They will try and get ME to bed as well, and if I stay up to watch a movie or whatever, 2 will actually go to my bed without me. " It's dark, time for sleeping!"   For me to take them out for a walk at 9 PM, well, they will come along, time with Mom is always better than staying home, but they really aren't in to it.  And it doesn't matter come morning, suns up and so are the dogs.  Sigh!

So this is ONE take on what you are describing.  It'd be fun to return to this thread in, say, November, and see if she is still up at 4 am!

Freedom

My 4 are up with the sun year round, so in winter I get to 'sleep in' later, lol.  And mine aren't young pups!  

Same here--when the sun rises, certain dogs would also rise. My springer spaniel was like that, and Sinbad was like that. Frisby--not so much; she was good at sleeping until I got up. Mozey tries to sleep in, too. (Sleeping in for me is 7 or 7:30 these days!)

My normal getting up time is 5-5:15 am. Yuck! But, it is light out in the summer!

If my dogs wake me up too early, I usually say go lay down, just 10 more minutes please. And it works, only do this if I know they can truly wait 10 minutes.

I would try making him wait 10 more minutes until you get him to where you want his get up time.  Do thi over a period of time.

I've been thinking about this, and came up with something similar to what MyDogs has posted.  What I was going to say:

 First, be glad it is summertime, keep reading you'll see why.  It is possible dog has to 'go.'  Always a chance.  So, you get up, put on slippers, get dog ON LEASH and take dog out for a few minutes to allow a potty break.  One the dog goes, head back in, put dog back to bed and you return to bed.  The dog will learn that getting up that early only gets a limited potty break, no time for romps, cuddles, treats, etc.  (Unless you are potty training, then treat for going outdoors, treat right then and there outside).  This time of year this is easy to do, you don't need to get on boots, coat, gloves etc.  Just slippers!  

I am not an early riser when I don't have to be (i.e., weekends).  I'm very grateful that both dogs we've had were happy to sleep until one of us gets up.  In fact, our first dog, Tonka, would stay in bed (he slept with us) for quite a while after we both go out of bed.  He often had to be coaxed out of there because we needed to get him fed and walked before leaving for work!  He was a king of lounging.

We used to housesit a couple dogs belonging to friends, and one of them was a VERY early riser -- if you even moved a muscle one there was a crack of daylight, he'd start dancing all over the place, wanting to get up.  I only had to deal with that a few times a year, and it drove me nuts, so I offer you lots of sympathy for having to deal with this every day!

Tracy, I think our dogs must be littermates! If I stayed in bed until noon, Max would happily stay there going out the doggy door only to pee and come right back in again.  I'm so glad he's a late sleeper. A lot of things can disturb my sleep, but Max isn't one of them.

Joyce