Dog sleeping on your bed..

Our dog sleeps on a chaise at the bottom of our bed, and pops up to say good morning at 7.20 to have a starter hug.

Yes, our dog sleeps on our bed. I don't particularly mind on the hygiene front but it often makes sleeping uncomfortable as she plonks herself down anywhere. We tell her to get off but she sneaks back on again.

TerriBull

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

Ha, ha, the equivalent is a weighted blanket! I have used one for many years now and sadly it's getting beyond it's best, and little glass beads are appearing everywhere. A new one will be required for the winter ..

Yes for me - have always slept with my animals and as long as they're de-flead etc then (umm is this one of those occasions where an apostrophe is needed, auto correct doesn't like any variation?) I personally have no issue with it. Sadly I can no longer sleep in a bed, and use a riser recliner chair, so it doesn't happen unless I have my friend's dog staying - a small KC Cavalier, who I can cope with on my lap, and actually I get a much better night for some reason.

I have 2 dogs, one a stocky med sized x-breed, and an extra large Golden Retriever, and both like to come up for a cuddle! As I have a massive abdominal hernia, I have to be very careful, but, both do come up, (individually I might add!) put their back ends between my legs, and rest their front ends on the arm rest, so don't touch my hernia - gets a bit warm, but it's generally for max. 15 mins and they jump off, but its nice!

My daughter has a smallish Basset Hound, and she sleeps on their bed all the time, and when she comes to stay she does try to come and sleep with me, but doesn't stay too long as it's obviously not as comfy! So they all use the sofa across the room - in fact, I think I could do away with one dog bed and it's contents, as they are a trip hazard for me when strewn all over the floor, and I can't safely get down to sort it.

Oh dear…..yes I’m afraid I’ve always let my dogs sleep on my bed! Seems I’m in the minority but it won’t change now. My dogs have all been non shedders and are regularly brushed. My DH sleeps downstairs now so our dog sleeps where he did. She’s got her own bed next to ours but won’t entertain it, when we originally aquired her she slept in her own bed for about a week, then some afternoons I went upstairs for a nap and took her with me and put her on the bed with me, then that was it, as soon as me and her go to bed every night she stands ready for me to pick her up whilst crying to come on the bed, I don’t get a peek out of her usually until the next morning. I find it comforting especially when she lays against my back.

No, never!

I loved my dog sleeping on my bed. She has been gone almost a year now and that is one of the many things I still miss. She was so full of insecurities, that I was never out of her sight. She could not have stood a whole night on her own.

Sometimes if she was tired, she would nudge my feet in an effort to get me upstairs.

Our young pup comes onto the bed when we go to bed. Sometimes I disturb during the night and he is on his bed which is by the bed, at others he's asleep next to me, it's completely up to him.

The problem with him not sleeping on the bed is that we have a brown carpet, and a chocolate lab so he disappears in the dark. I keep threatening to put some luminous paint on his ears to make him stand out in the dark

It's a matter for individual dog owners. I was a dog owner for most of my life but never allowed them upstairs or on the furniture and they knew the rules from the outset. Once, just after my last dog (Lizzie, a rescue Heinz 57) came back from a stay with my dog minder, I found her on the sofa. I looked her in the eye and said "no" and she immediately got down. Later, when I was talking to my dog minder she said how much she loved looking after Lizzie, adding "she likes to curl up on the sofa with me to watch Coronation Street". Poor Lizzie obviously forgot herself when she came home on that occasion. It only happened once.

Of course, where else would he sleep. 🐶

Depends on many things but never if they snore.
Always lay a single cotton sheet across end of bed and make dog understand that it is only permitted on the sheet. A law brought in when having two very large dogs who thought it amusing to make it impossible for me to get into bed.
Present dog, a semi permanent visitor, doesn’t snore ( miracle for a Frenchie ) but he smells vile despite every effort to nuturalise him. He's banned from bed but prefers the bathroom rug as he stretches out to sleep. If I forget, he brings it into my bedroom himself.

My JR cross starts off in his bed next to mine but then at some time during the night I hear a squeak and when I say ‘come on then’, up he jumps and curls up with me under the cover. It’s just so cosy and comforting.

Absolutely not. I love the fresh smell of clean bed linen and would not want a doggy smell in my bedroom. I have 5 Labrador working dogs and they have their own custom built kennels and pen outside.

susz

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!

This, totally.

Or dogs never slept in our bed- until we adopted one AC's elderly dachsund. He had his bed by ours, but often ended up with me.

When I had my first very painful knee replacement (old injury and they had to scrape loads of extra bone)- he came to lie along me every day when in recovery.

Our recently adopted rescue has never been upstairs yet- she just does not want to. She took to her bed in the kitchen (lare farmhouse kitchen, well away from cooker and food prep)- and that is it. Either on the patio, under a tree where she has made an earth bowl, or the kitchen.

If one day she ventures upstairs, she will be welcome- but I doubt she will ever get on the bed (famous last words?!?)

The very thought of it makes me feel ill, I think it’s revolting. We recently went into a flat for a holiday and I stipulated that I wanted accommodation that did not allow dogs which severely limited our choices but so many people with animals allow them in their beds and the thought of sleeping in a bed where a dog’s bottom might have been would keep me awake all night!

Oh gosh! Our two yorkies are 12 and 14 and have always slept on our bed! We bought a super king size bed so that we would all have plenty of room. Now they do struggle to get on the bed, so we have bought some dog steps to help them get up! Oh well, each to their own.

If the dogs you dog-sit are allowed to sleep on the beds by their owners, it is just as well that you don't mind them doing so when you are the occupant of the house!

I don't currently have a dog, but I would be simply furious if I did and a dog-sitter let it sleep on chairs, sofas or beds, as my dogs have always been provided with a good bed or basket of their own, a rug and all the floor space they could want, but never allowed on beds or soft furnishngs.

Yes my little pug sleeps on my bed but likes his own space , except in the morning when he comes over for a tummy tickle.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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! 😀 🐶 🐾

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.

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 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