Dog sleeping on your bed..

Yes! He is a rescue and has slept on his blanket on the bottom of our bed from day one. Looks like we’re in the minority.

No - allergic to animal hair

No.

Yes. I’ve never understood what the problem is to be honest, they’re part of the family. Personal choice of course. Why do people get a dog if they’re not going to be made part of the family. You wouldn’t make your kids sleep in the kitchen (hopefully).

All my dogs have slept on my bed,

We always had small terrier crosses and they slept on the landing in baskets or downstairs. The last dog ended up on my daughter’s bed which we didn’t realise. We all sleep with our doors open by the way. The habit was formed and then he started creeping in to our room. He was such a nervous little chap that my husband hadn’t the heart to throw him out.

I didn’t like it when we used to find him creeping under the duvet and my husband wasn’t keen when he walked over his head! I got a babygate and put it across the door and DH said he would whine all night but he didn’t and just accepted his place was on the landing.

Foxyhound starts the night in her own bed in the corner of the bedroom or possibly on a spare bed in one of the spare rooms, but by the time I wake up she is usually curled up into the small of my back. (The bedroom door is open so she can come and go as she pleases.)
Sighthounds often like a change of bed in the night and Foxyhound has a choice of SEVERAL around the house.
My bed, my dog, my business

When I possessed a cat they were allowed to sleep on my bed. If I had a dog I have a feeling it would end up sleeping at the bottom of my bed.

My cat gave me comfort, she would hear a noise, be alert and if she settled down I knew I did not have to investigate.

Yes. I've had two little dogs (not together) who slept at the bottom of the bed. Neither were any bother at all.

Our lab slept on the floor by my side of the bed, moving later on in the night to her dog bed on the landing. She would have loved to sleep on our bed, but she's such a lump and she sheds loads, so we wouldn't let her. Sadly she is now old and can no longer get up the stairs, so she sleeps at the bottom of the stairs on her bed. It is heartbreaking to see her little face looking forlornly up at me as I climb the stairs to bed.

We have 3 dogs. They can choose where they sleep.

Absolutely yes.

I must have shared my bed with about 20 dogs over the years.

We had 2 greyhounds, a lurcher and a JR all snoozing together with us.

Now we just have a JR bed sharing. She's a hoot. If you dare move your feet she gets very annoyed.

No idea what this hygiene business is about. I don't think my dogs have ever caused any health issues with us

Yes. All my dogs have always slept on the bed. The only one who doesn't is my very old and much-loved rescued Tripawd. I did try boosting him up once so that he shouldn't feel left out but he hated the wobbliness. He sleeps on a dog bed on the floor by the side of the bed.

Well yes and no.

My ancient Cairn has his routine. We all go up to bed together, sometimes Duncan needs a sling to help him, other times he totters up under his own volition. Into the bedroom and I say “paws up” and he puts his two front paws onto the bed and I lift up his rear end. He settles for a snore whilst I read, then as soon as I switch off the light he jumps down into his basket and sleeps there all night.

I would say also that he his handy for reminding me it is bedtime, as he pushes my leg with his wet nose🙄.

I really dislike doggie smells which lingerie on soft furnishings .
There's nothing worse that people opening their front doors and you get a blast of dog .

I have to admit that I've slept many times with sick and dying dogs on cushions next to their dog beds .

Oops linger not lingerie!

My son and girlfriend started off with their dog sleeping downstairs, but he's needy so they moved the dog doughnut (stress relieving dog bed I'm told, where's the human equivalent I'd like to know ) up into their room and when they come to us, so the doughnut comes too and upstairs it goes! He goes through the night, the dog that is, without so much as a whimper I'm told, unlike if he was downstairs when he gets frighted by noises, foxes bring out so many neurosis that he positively morphs into a canine version of Woody Allen

No I did let the dogs sleep in the bedroom the Jack Russell used to sneak on the bed and under the quilt. When I redecorated changed furnishings etc I said they are sleeping downstairs instead.
We had health issues I moved into another room. My dh decided the one dog we have can sleep in his room.

My DH won't allow our gorgeous dog on the bed with us, but when we go on holiday she sleeps with us and she loves it as do I.

I’ve just got my bed back to myself after a week of my son’s dog sleeping on top of it beside me while they were away on holiday. He sleeps downstairs at home but somehow got in the habit of sneaking upstairs and onto my bed when he was young and that became our routine . I must admit I do enjoy it and I missed him last night. He always has a bath before he comes to stay and has a lovely non shedding coat. In many ways a better bed companion than some humans! 😀 🐶 🐾

MayBee70

I’m afraid that sighthounds assume that beds were invented for them but they tolerate humans joining them. When whippets weren’t catching rabbits for the pot or racing they used to sleep with the children to keep them warm. My Spaniels were never allowed on or in the bed and even my first two whippets slept in a crate in the kitchen because I was working but the latest one is very Velcro. Thankfully whippets don’t shed much and, if they smell I’ve never noticed it. I don’t think I’d allow another breed on the bed.

I have a Bedlington Whippet and she doesn't shed fur, she's my family since my girls have grown up and have their own families, she thinks I'm sleeping on her bed! She is my company, my guard dog (useless) and I live in a bungalow, my home is her home.

Yes, my dogs have slept on our bed for the last 30 years. I would probably be reluctant if they were big shedders, but they have been Poodles (Standards and Toys) and, most recently, a Weimaraner, who has an extremely short coat.

As for the two points raised by other posters
- “they are pack animals and if they sleep on the bed won’t understand that you are the boss”. Firstly, because they are pack animals, it’s unnatural for them to sleep alone away from the pack (their family), although they’d be fine on the floor beside the bed. My dogs are all clear that the humans are all in charge. They have been/are all obedient and well mannered.
- Secondly, “if they sleep with their humans, so are with them all the time when at home, how will they cope with separation when you have to go out”? You teach a dog from puppyhood to be alone, initially for very short periods whilst you go to the loo, then doing something for longer in another room, then increasing it at you go out.

Pleased to read MayBee 70's comments. Our whippet began downstairs, complained of being cold and now sleeps in my room either in his own cave bed or on mine. I only know which when I wake up. He pretends to be asleep most of the morning.

Your dog, your bed completely down to you, no-one else's business! My Rhodesian Ridgebacks didn't do stairs and were always happy with their own beds downstairs. The Afghan Hounds were a completely different story!