Every Night at 8:45 P.M. Dog Asks One Thing of His Family

A pet owner has revealed her dog’s unusual nightly routine and the consequences anyone coming between him and it face.

Missy Rothfuss from Spencerport, New York, took to TikTok to show how her dog Bailey likes to spend his evenings. “We bought Bailey as a puppy,” she told Newsweek. “Bailey likes to sleep.”

Sleep is pretty central to Bailey’s favorite evening activity. While Rothfuss lists “going for walks and playing on the farm” as two of Bailey’s favorite pursuits, his other big passion in life is his chair.

Every night at 8:45 p.m. Bailey asks for one thing and one thing only from his family: access to his favorite chair. It’s the chair he likes to sleep in every evening, for reasons unknown.

What is very much known, however, is that there will be hell to pay for anyone daring to sit in Bailey’s chair beyond 8:45 p.m. “I’m not sure when the chair started but bed time is 8:45 p.m. for him and he will have a fit if you’re in his chair,” Rothfuss said.

An armchair can be an appealing prospect to a dog. As Meaghan Thomas, a veterinarian, previously told Rover: “Dogs like having private den-like spaces. It can become a safe space for them, like under a table or in a kennel.”

For Bailey, the armchair is a space in which to rest and relax after the day’s activities. But despite clearly earmarking this particular chair as his go-to spot, Bailey has encountered the occasional bit of human resistance.

One example of that came in the clip Rothfuss shared to her TikTok missyrothuss. It shows Bailey staring directly at his “dad” who is sitting in his chair with bedtime fast approaching.

Bailey stares at the man in the video for several uncomfortable seconds, before raising his paw to touch the interloper and further emphasize his point.

While the video stops short of showing Bailey in full tantrum mode, Rothfuss is keen to stress that Bailey will throw “a fit” if his demands are not eventually met.

“Usually he comes over to me and throws himself and looks at him at the same time,” she said. “If one of the other cat/dogs are on there he makes us get them off.”

Though his “dad” shows no signs of moving in the video, many of those watching were eager for the man in the video to know his place and make way for Bailey.

“Get out dad,” one viewer wrote, reflecting on how Bailey was being “so dramatic with the yawning and licking.”

Though the outcome that night is unknown, Rothfuss has confirmed that Bailey continues to head to the chair on a nightly basis.