Do You Share Your Bed with your Dog(s)?

[Jaybay]

For years my husband adamantly refused to allow the dogs into our bed.  Then we adopted 3-month-old Maggie.  After listening to her cry in her crate for less than an hour, Hubby said not one word, got up and brought her to bed with us.  There she has slept every night for five years.  LOL!

Our dalmation, Doc Holliday, prefers to stretch out on the living room couch, so at least we don't have to battle for bed space.  

What sleeping arrangements do your dogs have?

[shauna28]

I beleive in pack mantality in dealing with your dogs. I love my dog and am kind and gentle with her. However I think dogs are naturally pack animals, by allowing your dog to sleep on your bed with you, eat while you are eating and invade your space to list just a few of the many things, you are teaching your dog that they are your equal. If you want GREAT behavior from your dog, you need them to know that YOU are the pack leader in your home and they are at the bottom of the totem pole. At minimum give them a bed on the floor in your room

[suzy_is4dogs]

I have 4 dogs, 3 miniature poodles and 1 Pomeranian. They do let me sleep with them in a small side of the bed, that bed could not be mine at all . One day I fell from bed because Joe one of my poodles decided to take my spot and there is not way to move him when he is sleeping, my pom  Rocky sleeps couple of hours on his bed but during the night he starts barking to ask me to pick him up and get on bed with me. Not matter how stiff I get up many times, I could not sleep without their little and soft bodies by me.

[jenntanis]

Our dog Maggie sleeps at night in the crate, right next to our bed.  But as soon as she's been let out in the morning, you can find her sleeping anywhere in the house, sofa, our bed, or the guest bed.  Sometimes, she just sleeps on the floor in my office.  She's a lazy dog, can you tell?!?  It's funny when she is snoring louder that my husband.

[kp9er]

when i go to bed my 100lb yellow lab is at my side somtime during the night he will crawl out of bed and lay in the doorway he does not get to far from me at night and when the alarm goes off in the morning it time to get up and he knows that because he is on top of me untill i get up and let him out i work 12 hr swing shifts and all the time i have had him in the house i have only come home to a mess maybe 3 times other than that he goes to the basement and does his business beside the floor drain clean up made simple and easy

[nyssa739]

I have two siberian huskies and two chihuahuas. The huskies sleep together on the living room couch. We tried the bed thing but they were all over the place so we switched them to the sofa. My chihuahuas both sleep with me . One on top of my legs under the blanket and the other usually in the crook of my arm or across my neck. Since he is so small I tend to spoil him rotten. He had a bad fall a few weeks ago , suffering a skull fracture but luckily he is doing alot better than he was. Not quite back to his old self but as the days go by he is inching closer. He had resumed sleeping across my neck and I happily let him because he is my baby. As for the big snorers , they can stick to the sofa.

[ea_poe]

In bed, unless I'm sleeping on the couch and then she's on the couch. Wherever I sleep, she sleeps.