Dog sleeping on your bed..

Oops linger not lingerie!

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 .

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

All my dogs have slept on my bed,

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).

No.

No - allergic to animal hair

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.

Are you telling me humans don’t fart or snore? 😂

Well, I've never known one as bad as a French Bulldog on either count.

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.

No. Though our dog jumps up on the bed if she thinks we’re staying in bed too long. She has her bed on the landing and that’s where she takes her fuzzy monkey to sleep.

Our dog has her own bed next to ours. It’s nice to have her close by and to hear her snoring.

Sago

No on hygiene and also dogs are pack animals and need a master, sleeping on the masters bed is confusing, they need boundaries.

Peggy’s not confused. She knows her boundaries and is as biddable as any dog can be. The only thing I can’t get her to do is bring me a cup of tea in the morning. 😂

I had pets when I had my kids at home so dogs and cats slept on the bed all the time. I’ve been animal free for over 20 years but if I had any more it would be NO! I must have got fussier as I’ve aged

It’s up to the individual I guess. Our dogs (spaniels) were never allowed upstairs, let alone on the bed, but as far as DD2’s little dogs were concerned - that was a totally different story and they had been allowed to sleep with her from the word go. Now, as soon as I put the lights off and the alarm on, the dogs would be upstairs and on the bed before I’d taken two stairs!
Luckily small dogs, then when the elder died last year, there’s plenty of room for me and the other one. He doesn’t shed and although he starts off on his own throw at the bottom, I usually wake to fine him snuggled against my back.

No on hygiene and also dogs are pack animals and need a master, sleeping on the masters bed is confusing, they need boundaries.