Hi Joe, Mason, as you know, is also in daycare although usually in the Edinburgh area. He's another reluctant riser - especially in winter. We leave the house at 7.10am during the week and its always a cajoling to get him out of bed in the morning and last thing at night is a similar thing. I just reckon he sleeps less than other groos cos he's out the house all day, there are days when I know he runs around like a loon at daycare and others when he barely gets off the sofa in the office (its the warmest spot and he seems to have claimed it as his own) and that seems to have no bearing on how keen he is to go out at night.Sometimes he still wants an evening walk, other like tonight, he slept all evening on the sofa until his last thing at night out at 10pm, and had to be persuaded to do that.
The weekends are a different story. Mason will sleep til 9.30am-10am quite happily before going out which shows he's just a lazy bones.
I think you'll see a difference when the lighter mornings and evenings come in. I wouldn't stress, Maddie's out the house all day, she's getting exercise and care with Jacqui and, like Mason, is sometime probably just tired.
One thing I do which encourages his final 'out' is give him a treat of cheese every night when we come back.
He knows that's the routine, and that if he goes for his last brief stretch that's his reward and it seems to work.
Marie