Do your dogs sleep on your bed?

[Izzy's Valkyrie]

Yep. Tango can sleep in his crate and does often when we're traveling to make sure he doesn't get in to anything in strange places. Otherwise he sleeps on the bed curled up on top of me or under the covers with me as the little spoon. He has to be touching me though. In the winter he doesn't get out of under the covers when I shower in the morning because he prefers to be warm.

When we're at my apartment (instead of boyfriend's) Tango will sleep curled up with me and the cat will sleep at the foot of the bed.

 

[Laurelin]

Yep. Every night. They both are really good sleepers and each have their 'spot' on the bed. They don't really move from that unless Mia is cold and wants under the covers.

Mia has slept in the bed since about 1 week into me getting her.

 

[noludoru]

Yes, until I have another person in bed on a regular basis. I LOVE sleeping with him, but it doesn't go well in a queen size bed with me being 6' and 270lbs. I take up a LOT of space and he doesn't like to be touched. He used to get offended when I even moved, but now he'll leap up, glare, and settle again if I touch him. He snuggles me on his own terms and I'll sometimes wake up with him pressed up against my legs or back, but he usually sleeps on the edge of the bed to avoid accidental snuggles.

The bed just isn't big enough for us. We need a king.

 

[Shai]

At home, only Mira does, and only when she is not in heat. Kim prefers not to, Webster sleeps in a crate because he needs consistency, and Lodin sleeps in a crat because he's a puppy and has testicles.

On the road, as long as there are no host rules against it, whoever is with me gets to sleep on the bed. Again Kim usually chooses not to but Mira will sleep up on the bed, and Web and Lodin always choose to snuggle while they sleep. Whether Mira snuggles or just sleeps nearby depends on temp...she runs hot.

 

[Southpaw]

Nope not allowed. Wish the cat were as easy to train. Makes me cringe anytime he sets a paw up there.

 

[Ozfozz]

It depends.

The dogs are not allowed on the bed unless there's only one of us there.
Rigby likes to cuddle, so she's usually on the bed whenever she's allowed to be.
Cobain I think gets too hot to sleep on the bed. He will occasionally, but seems to much prefer the dog bed set up in the corner for him.


Oz and Ruby both sleep in my parents bed at their place.

 

[AliciaD]

The dogs jump on the bed to greet me in the morning some times, and they'll climb up if they think they'll get some attention, but they don't stick around long enough to sleep and I'll tell them to get off if they are being annoying.

 

[*blackrose]

Nope not allowed. Wish the cat were as easy to train. Makes me cringe anytime he sets a paw up there.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Lol

 

[Beanie]

I like Auggie on the bed with me so much that sometimes after he jumps down, I'll pick him up and put him on the bed again LOL. NOOOO SNUGGLE. And he's all NOOOO HOT.

Wasn't always that way - when he was younger he was HELL to have on the bed. Wouldn't settle. I'd wake up in the middle of the night to him standing on top of me, or right next to me, face inches from mine. Like OH HAI MOM. I SEE YOU ARE AWAKE NOW. He'd jump off the bed and then cry to be picked up and lifted back on. Just a real PITA. Finally I taught him to be a good boy and sleep nicely in his bed on the floor. It wasn't actually until after Pepper came to live with us that he started to be good sleeping in the bed... I think he suddenly got possessive. =P


Payton started sleeping on the bed when he was six months I think? As soon as I trusted him to hold his pee through the night. For a while he slept on the bed with me and Auggie and once he got a little older (realized he could jump off the bed by himself) he started preferring to sleep on the floor. I didn't mind because Baby Payton was a lot like his brother... stepping on me, shoving himself up against me, licking my HAIR in the middle of the night ("looooove yooooou") and doing what I called his parrot impression where he would climb up on my back, hook his front paws over my shoulder, then lay his head right next to mine... cute... but not at 3AM. He doesn't really do any of that now, except he will still hop onto the bed in the morning when he thinks I'm awake and be like "let's snuuuuuggglllllllle~" and try to curl up into me. Because he's a cute puppy.

 

[AmandaNola]

I picked "other", since they're both allowed on the bed during the day and in the evening whenever they wish, but only Nola is allowed to sleep in bed at night. Pike is crated.

 

[BostonBanker]

Both of mine do. Meg is the perfect bed-buddy. She has her own pillow and fleece blanket at the foot of the bed, and she curls up there and doesn't move or make a peep all night.

Gusto is USUALLY a great sleeping buddy as well. He waits every night until I'm in bed, then I hold up the covers and he crawls under them and sleeps curled up against me. Today is not a good day to ask, because he's woken me up the past two mornings in a row. He got me up at 4:40 on Wednesday morning when he got off the bed and started pacing (think he had an upset tummy - when I gave in and took him out at 5:10, he wanted to eat grass). Last night he randomly decided at 2:50 am that he wanted to sleep on the mat next to my bed, and got down to do that. He fell back asleep immediately, but I never did.

 

[sparks19]

nope. The dogs don't want to and there isn't enough room. Sometimes when Brian gets up early for work, Beezer might crawl up with me but if I move he grunts and leaves lol. Belle doesn't even bother to try anymore. She finds sharing the bed to be irritating.

They will get up there during the day and sleep when no one else is in there. Especially on rainy days.

 

[LostAndConfused]

In the cooler months, yes. now that it's getting hot again, he will generally sleep on the floor. He has a certain spot on my husband's side of the bed where he likes to sleep. He will move the rug out of the way so that he can sleep in his spot.

 

[Slick]

I have a twin bed, so there really isn't enough room. If I had a bigger bed, I would allow it. But as it is, I really don't like being touched while sleeping so I don't allow it.
I do let Leo up for cuddle sessions in the mornings though, and I do sometimes doze off then, but he is not allowed to stay for the entire night.

 

[sassafras]

Pip does, if he wants to. In warm weather he usually sleeps under the bed instead. Maisy and Squash are crated at night.

 

[k9krazee]

Yep. The three of us (Me, Crossbone & DH) sleep together whether we're piled up on the couch, squeezed on a twin mattress in the car/tent or in our full size bed. Crossbone usually sticks to the foot end (and not by my feet, thank god, because I move too much and don't want dog squashed against my legs).

 

[Southpaw]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Lol

Lol! I just feel like they get my bedding so dirty. Hate it. The cat especially seems to purposely curl himself up on my pillow RIGHT after I've taken everything out of the wash and made my bed. Jerk.

 

[sillysally]

I put "other." We allow both dogs to sleep on the bed, but Jack is the only one who does--Sally prefers to sleep in Jack's open crate.

 

[kady05]

Nope not allowed. Wish the cat were as easy to train. Makes me cringe anytime he sets a paw up there.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Lol

Y'all aren't alone

I don't allow it. We actually don't allow them in our room period (except for Barrett every once in awhile if I'm getting ready and I don't feel like crating him). Them meaning dogs and the cats.

I'm way too OCD to have animals in my bed. The hair, dirt, whatever else they track in, bleh, grosses me out.. I'd be washing sheets daily.

 

[Toller_08]

Dance and Journey have the option. They usually leave at some point when they get too hot, but they always start out there and at least one of them is back in the morning. Keira and Ripley sleep on their own bed beside mine on the floor. Too big, pushy and their prickly hairs get stuck in fabric.