If you crate trained your dog, where do they sleep?

[seriously1]

My 7month old pup is crate trained.  He does very well in his crate when we are at work.  I wouldn't mind if he slept in my daughter's bed or just room at night.  She, of course, really wants him too.  If your dog is crate trained and doesn't sleep in there at night, where does he/she sleep.  Does he pick the same spot each night?  Did you encourage it etc.?  As a compromise now, we put his crate in her room and he sleeps in her room, in his crate at night.

[mcmel]

The girls' crate is in our bedroom, but they sleep in our bed. Sometimes when Marbles gets hot she gets in her crate to cool off.

[G22]

We only crate trained until they could be left out with out destroying stuff. They sleep in our bedroom and we shut the door, but we don't have kids. When my H is gone for work, all 3 sleep in the bed with me

ETA: Our dogs each picked a general area of the room that they sleep. Dog #1 sleeps on my side of the bed, Dog #2 sleeps in the entry way by the door, and Dog #3 sleeps under the bed. 99% of the time they stick to these spots. The other 1% the move on us, and that's when I trip over them for my middle of the night pee break.

[katietornado]

Cal is super crate trained, but after 3 months we started keeping him in the bedroom. These days, if we go upstairs any time after like 10 PM, he is sure to follow, and he will crawl into our bed and lay at the foot. He refuses to sleep anywhere else. Same place, every night.

[awick14]

Our dog I in the crate while we are at work, but sleeps in our room at night. He has a bed that is on DHs side of the bed. If he's too hot he sleeps on the floor which is colder, laminate.

[starlettedir]

Usually gated in the game room.

[grover]

Our lab sleeps in his crate. Right now our upstairs is under construction so there is no door up to close and there's no trim which means he tries to eat the drywall. So he stays downstairs in the crate. Plus there's the fact that he's scared to go up and down the stairs and we don't want to start the habit of carrying him up and down now while he's 65 pounds and only due to get bigger.

Eventually once we put carpet on the stairs and he's (hopefully) going up and down the stairs on his own, we'll let him sleep upstairs in our room uncrated.

[dearprudence]

We have a dog bed in our room. He sleeps on that.

[aliciar6]

the older dog sleeps out in the living room and the puppy sleeps in his crate, he can't make it through the night yet with out an accident. eventually he'll be out with the other dog, but they are banned from the bedroom, I don't get much sleep as it is and when the one slept in our bedroom I got even less and 4 AM comes really quickly and I get really grouchy when I don't sleep

[nomad100]

They sleep in our bedroom with us with the door closed.

Cricket, our 45 lb pit mix, is in the bed with us most of the time since not touching another body (human or dog) while sleeping is to be avoided at all costs.

Willow, our 60+ lb pointer/boxer mix, sometimes sleeps in our bed and sometimes sleeps on her bed. It depends on her mood.

[clo]

My dogs sleep in my room, but that was after they were trusted out of their crates at night.

With that said, I would absolutely not let them sleep with my son. He is much too unpredictable at night with all of the thrashing about that he does and I wouldn't want him to jab one of the dogs and disturb their sleep, increasing the potential for a bite.

[orangeblossom]

He generally sleeps where we sleep. I/we frequently don't make it upstairs and fall asleep on the couch, so he'll come and cuddle next to me.

If we go upstairs, I'd say about 85% of the time he follows suit and sleeps in his bed.

The first time he slept up there was kind of funny. We'd gone to bed as usual and left him downstairs. I guess, he didn't like that and burst through the door (door closes funny so it's never really shut all the way), laid down and has been doing it ever since.