Where Does/do Your Dog(s) Sleep?

[yourmother]

I adopted/rescued a puppy in August and he's my baby.  He's been trained to sleep in his crate overnight, but now he's itching to sleep in my bed with me.  I let him do it twice last week for the first time ever and I have mixed feelings about it.

What do you do?

[suzubell]

In my bed and most days I hate it.

[cattledogkisses]

She has her own bed in our room, so she can be near us but not in bed with us.

[tripleshot]

In a crate with lots of comfy blankets.

[ste]

The old dog sleeps wherever she wants, generally in the living room or in the hallway between the kids doors. If H is working at night, she comes into bed with me (she gets too hot if there are multiple humans in bed, not that he doesn’t allow her). The puppy sleeps in her crate.

[shananagins]

On a dog bed in our room. He's too big to sleep in the bed. He is allowed on the couch though.

[10outof9]

My older dog sleeps in bed with me. My younger dog sleeps in her crate. I’ve had her since September and I still don’t trust her to be around the cats at night (she has a high prey drive and training is going very slowly).

[styme46]

One dog sleeps in our bed and the other sleeps with ds in his bed. When ds isn't home, both sleep in our bed. They are total bed hogs, I wake up sore more often than not, and we bitch about it a lot, but we wouldn't have it any other way!

[Queen Dick, Hibernating Bear]

She sleeps with the boy. I wish I could get that diva to sleep in a dog bed.

[ssmjlm]

We have an Aussie, so her favorite spots to lay are anywhere cold. So that means she's typically in our bathroom on the tile floor. Sometimes in the winter she'll sleep on her bed, it has a cotton side that stays colder than other fabrics.

ETA: She's had stomach issues since she was a puppy, so we prefer her in our room.  She will come wake me up (somehow I'm the default) when she needs a MOTN bathroom visit.

[simpsongal]

Early on in a crate, now that he's an old, slow pup - dog bed (sometimes on the guest bed, or the couch).

[icedcoffee]

In his crate in the kitchen. Every once in a while I feel sad about it and want him upstairs to cuddle, but honestly, it's so much better this way. My sleep has not once been disturbed by him and my room stays fur free.

He's old enough and well behaved enough that we could probably let him sleep on his bed instead of the crate (Still downstairs), but I'm a little worried if someone drove by or something he'd start howling and wake up the kids. He stays quiet in his crate. So we keep him there. And he loves his crate.

At this point he wouldn't sleep in our bed even if we let him. He's too in love with his crate. He'll still cuddle on the couch with us though.

[pinkdutchtulips]

I had 2 smallish Jack Russells that I would let sleep on my bed. It’s breed dependent though ... anything bigger and the dog can sleep in a crate.

[pandorica]

One sleeps in our bed, one on her bed at the foot of ours.

I'm starting to hate it in the winter. She wants to be under the blankets half of the time, and wakes us up to get under there, and then like an hour later wakes us up as she struggles to get out. The cycle continues all night 😴

[tealblue]

On the floor of our room or in her dog bed on the floor of our room. When we got her, we planned to kennel her but she was larger than our kennel from our previous dog. So we let her sleep in our room and she did excellent.

Last week, she started taking the liberty of jumping into bed and I could not move or sleep. So no more.

Our older dogs (who have since passed away) would sleep on their dog beds or our smaller dog would sleep under the bed.

[Vespasia]

On the couch downstairs. She also has a bed in the living room but the cat tends to steal that in the winter.

She slept in our room when we first got her but she would wake MH up on the weekends at his normal time because she wanted attention.

[Saint Monica]

When she was a baby pup up to age 7 (she is 12 now) she slept with me. Now that she is a big girl age 7.5-8 to the present she does what she wants. Sometimes she sleeps on her dog bed, sometimes in her crate, sometimes on the couch, sometimes on the floor/rug, or in bed.*




*dont take advice from me my doggie has issues

[InBetweenDays]

Our 75lb dog sleeps in our queen sized bed with us.   He generally starts in his own bed on the floor, makes his way up to the foot of our bed when we go to sleep, and then inches his way up so his head is almost on our pillows. H generally gets up at least once a night to move him back down to the foot of the bed. Very cute and sweet, but also annoying.

[Deleted]

We have 3 dogs and they all sleep in bed with us. We recently upgraded to a King bed to accommodate this. #noregerts

[definitelyO]

we have 2. the 85# lab sleeps on his dog bed in the dining room.
the 50# rescue sleeps in DS's bed with him.

[mcmel]

The 50 pound lab/pit mix sleeps under the covers with us.

The 30 pound shepherd mix sleeps on our pillows.

The 70 pound border collie/Great Pyrenees mix sleeps at our feet until she gets hot and then moves to the tile.

It’s a full bed, but I love it.

[pixy0stix]

Crate. My bed is for me, and they clearly don't think that as they try to push me off. I sleep like shit when they're on the bed with us.

[lightbulbsun]

I have two dogs. One sleeps either in our bed or at the bench on the end of our bed, and the other sleeps in either her dog bed, or the guest bed. Whenever we foster, we crate our foster dogs at night. I don't mind having the dogs in the bed, but really it's your house, so do whatever you want. However, I will say that once you let them sleep in the bed it can be really hard to get them to sleep in the crate again.

[osulori]

My beagle mix basically sleeps whereever she wants-usually a combination of our bed, our bedroom floor, the dog bed in the living room, the family room couch, or the living room couch.

The pit mix usually sleeps sandwiched in between us in bed and will stay there all night aside from when he inevitably wakes up in the middle of the night to scream at the back door until I wake up and let him out to pee. Usually he will follow me back to bed but sometimes he ends up on the couch or dog bed in the living room.

[dexteroni]

We have two dogs. One sleeps on our bed with us, and the other stays downstairs and sleeps on the couch. He also sometimes moves to the dog bed in the same room as the couch.

[Kristinmo]

Current dog - crate. Our old dog that we lost in August at 14 years old slept in our bed and I wanted this one to sleep in a crate.

[xyz]

He used to sleep in bed with us from when he was a puppy until a couple years ago. He’s too old now to climb up into our bed so he sleeps on the couch.

[hermione]

He sleeps on the floor at the foot of the bed or on the floor next to my side. He is career changed leader dog (euphemism for failed) and that's what he was trained to do. He will start out snuggling but as soon as the tv is off and it's clear we are going to sleep, he chooses to move to the floor.

[jwright]

In our bed and I wish we had been diligent about breaking that habit in the beginning.

[jaycee]

Crate. I had her on the bed with me and she was so restless. Couldn't get comfortable, super annoying. I thought moving to her crate would be a disaster but she is silent and happy in there.