Old lady dog - in our bedroom. She chooses one of the 2 beds that are available. Sometimes she'll sleep on clothes that we've left on the floor, but we've tried putting them onto a dog bed in case it's a "I wanna be close to yooooooou" scent thing, and it doesn't help. If she sleeps in our bed she starts off as the small spoon, but then sprawls out and I end up crammed between her and husband and can't move either of them so it's a no-go except for occasional naps.
Wee beast - crated in our bedroom. We found out on vacation he's actually really nice to sleep with -- either curled in a ball at the foot of the bed or tucked nicely into my side. He'll also relocate if I poke him and tell him to rather than being a dead weight, but I feel bad sleeping with him and not letting old lady dog into bed with us.
When our lab was young, he was in his crate. Eventually, he was able to be trusted to be out of the crate and slept on a dog bed in our room. Now, he is an old man who is afraid of the stairs to go up to the bedroom, so he stays on the main floor in the living room. He is also afraid of our bed, so he never has slept in the bed with us.
We have one dog (surprise, he's a corgi!) and he weighs about 32lbs. We have a dog bed for him in our room and have bought him at least a half a dozen dog beds in his eight years and he never uses them. He'll lay NEXT to them, but not in them. So he sleeps in our bed and has been since he didn't need to be crated at night.
We have a king size bed and he takes up a ridiculous amount of room in it for not being a large dog. I don't mind, I sometimes share my pillow with him, but it bugs DH. But he doesn't have the heart to kick him out of bed so he just moves him, lol. We used to have dog stairs and now we have a bench at the end of our bed since his stubby legs don't let him jump high enough to get into our bed from the floor.
ETA - Our boy is a VERY heavy shedder so we have a light coverlet that we have over our sheets and weighted blanket that collects all his dog hair. We wash it weekly and when company comes we fold it nicely at the end of our bed to hide the fur. We're talking about what we're going to do with our bedroom after we finish some other spaces in the house and one day we'll have a nice looking bed again... but we'll probably still need a dog fur blanket, lol.
In a dog bed on the couch and I hate it. I'm not a fan of animals on the furniture. I don't allow him in our bed on the sheets at night and when he is on our bed he has to stay on the top blanket. He's so spoiled.
Sleeping is my dogs' shared vocation. We always crated our dogs at night until a few years ago.
Dog 1 (13YO, Eskie) prefers to sleep on hard surfaces - during the day she sleeps in front of the front door, which I keep open to the storm door so she can monitor everything. At night she likes to sleep in any of our bathrooms. Sometimes she decides to sleep in her crate.
Dog 2 (2YO, Goldendoodle) slept in his crate until he was reliably potty trained. During the day he sleeps in sight of wherever I am, touching me if possible. We have two dog beds, so he's often there. At night, he starts out in our bed and then around 1 am likes to hop out and sleep in the hallway at the top of the stairs. He makes odd appearances in DS's bed from time to time. I've never met a dog more addicted to comfort. If there is any way to be comfy - bed, blanket, pillow - he arranges himself on top of it.
In my bed and I wish I could figure out a way to break them of it. I'm thinking of having DH build a co-sleeper type thing that you'd put a baby in so they feel like they're still next to us, but not. Getting a split king made things 100x worse too b/c no one wants the crack! Maybe a body pillow will help with that.
When I had dogs, there was some combo of on the bed with me and on the floor. They were welcome to sleep in the bed, but often did not. I loved it when my golden retriever would let me spoon her They were usually pretty good about letting me sleep.
I wish our cat would sleep with us now. Sometimes he will sleep on my H's side if I'm in the bed alone, but he won't cuddle.
Our dog passed away last summer but she slept in our bed. At times it felt annoying but I really do miss feeling her roll around trying to get comfy on top of my feet.
Post by BicycleBride on Jan 12, 2021 13:42:54 GMT -5
He sleeps under our bed. I barely let H sleep in our bed, definitely no pets. We have a bed frame that doesn’t require a box spring but the mattress is still at normal height so there is about double the regular amount of space under our bed. He’s about 65 lbs and golden retriever-ish. He was 3 when we got him and is/was crate trained but after he had gotten used to us and proved to be a good boy he decided he preferred under our bed and now that’s his spot.
Our 1 year old coton sleeps on the floor of our room or the hallway outside of our room. I wish DH was Ok with him in the bed. He’s really attached to me and will only sleep through the night in bed, which only happens at my parents’ house where the bed is low enough for him to jump on. So, for now, I just try to keep one eye closed when I take him out around 2am for a potty break.
Newest asshole sleeps in his crate as he is not to be trusted.
Previous angel baby slept locked in her crate, then in the crate with the door open, then in my bed but on the other side of the bed, then in between H and me over the course of her lifetime. We bought doggie stairs for her at the end when she was too old to jump up.
We got a puppy back in November. We planned on crate training him starting night one, but he cried for HOURS and kept the whole house up. Eventually I gave in and let him sleep in the bed. Part of me loved having him with me but the other part was stressed he would fall off the bed or that somehow the covers would suffocate him. We were also constantly waking each other up moving around.
Since then we slowly but surely have gotten him crate trained. He now sleeps in a crate right next to the bed. I think we both sleep more soundly this way!
Our dogs slept in their crates because our bulldog would pee when she was a puppy and after 2 accidents on the bed I was like NOPE.
She died in 2015, for a while our westie slept on the bed after that. He was crying at night after she passed.
About a year ago I transitioned him back to his crate next to my side of the bed. He is elderly now (just turned 15 in October) and he would hop down from the bed and pee in the hallway while we were sleeping. Now he has to wake me up when he has to pee.
On the floor next to me. My H is super obsessed with the dog and really wants him in bed with us, but thankfully the dog doesn't like it. We already have one of the fat cats in bed with us, there is definitely not room to accommodate a 70 pound dog too!
Post by NewGirlNic on Jan 12, 2021 14:20:17 GMT -5
I voted "special answer" because it depends.
He has several spots he sleeps- with DS in his bed, on his own dog bed that we keep in the spare room/office or on the floor next to my side of the bed. Some nights he moves around. Last night he started in bed with DS, but then he got up when he heard me brushing my teeth and came in our room. When I woke up this morning he was in the kitchen waiting to go outside, so I'm not sure where he ended up.
Our dog used to be gated on our lower level at night, where she had her pick of a couch, recliner, or dog bed to sleep on. Then we stopped gating her down there and she had two more couch options. And then about a year and a half ago we replaced DD's twin loft bed with a regular double bed, and now the dog sleeps with her most nights.
I don't think our dog would go for being in a room with someone but not on the bed with them. She pretty much always wants to be as close as possible to a person.
On our bed. It’s super uncomfortable because she’s a 60 pound dog, we are in a queen bed, and she jumps on and off all night. She was in her crate downstairs until last winter when she got super sick and was hospitalized for a week. This coincided with DH traveling every week for work so I moved her into the bed with me since I was so worried about her. Now we don’t have the heart to kick her out because we are suckers. Occasionally DH or I move to the guest room for the night because she takes up too much space. You can see who rules the roost here!
Our dog used to be gated on our lower level at night, where she had her pick of a couch, recliner, or dog bed to sleep on. Then we stopped gating her down there and she had two more couch options. And then about a year and a half ago we replaced DD's twin loft bed with a regular double bed, and now the dog sleeps with her most nights.
I don't think our dog would go for being in a room with someone but not on the bed with them. She pretty much always wants to be as close as possible to a person.
For the first half of his life he slept gated in the kitchen on a dog bed. Then he stopped chewing random stuff and we left him roam the house. He almost exclusively chose his bed in the kitchen, but would wander a lot at night. Sometimes sleeping on the floor in our room, on the ledge over the stairs, etc. Never the couch, though he liked the couch during the day.
Fast forward to his last 2-3 yrs of life and he slept on the floor next to our bed every night until he died.
We let him sleep on our bed twice as a puppy and never again. We didn't want to break that habit. I just don't feel clean with a dog in bed with us. We shower at night and it just didn't feel.. right.
Post by hbomdiggity on Jan 12, 2021 14:27:11 GMT -5
Crate in our room, if I carry her (45lb) upstairs at night. I hurt my back a few weeks ago and couldn’t carry her so she slept on the sofa.
We let our previous dog sleep on the bed the last 2 years of his life. Not again. Current dog loves her crate so much but I also have a bench at end of our bed which makes it harder to keep her off the bed.
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Jan 12, 2021 14:49:35 GMT -5
My dogs sleep in the living room, anywhere they want on that floor of the house. We put a gate up to keep them from coming upstairs and whining outside our doors.
This was a contentious situation when we added our puppy.
Our older dog (4 years) slept in her crate in the living room until she was close to a year, and then we let her sleep in the living room. She could have come upstairs at that point, but she hates our wooden floor stairs and never did.
When we got our puppy in May, I tried to have her sleep in her crate in the living room, and I planned to sleep on the couch until she was settled. The first 2 weeks were HELL because the dog and the puppy kept each other up ALL NIGHT. It was seriously worse than when my kids were newborns. So in desperation, I moved the puppy upstairs in a pen in our guest room, and I slept in there with her. I did this for over a month I think, maybe 2 months? And then I started letting the puppy sleep in the guest room on her own and moved back to my room. This worked well except that the puppy would get up super early in the morning and bark until I let her out, then she'd go back to sleep in the living room (usually around 5:30/5:45 but often as early as 4:45). We also tried letting both dogs take a turn sleeping in my daughter's room on her bed because she was insistent that she wanted them to. The older dog wouldn't calm down and go to sleep, and my daughter quickly learned that it's hard to sleep with a large, snoring puppy in your bed and at like 10 PM asked me to take the puppy back downstairs.
So now they both sleep freely in the living room, and life is good. They do have their own sound machine that I run for them too though. When I come down in the morning, one is often in the dog bed and one on the couch, but I know my puppy often sleeps on the floor, or both on the couch too.
When dh and I first got a dog before we were even married, she slept in bed with us, and then on the floor in our room, and between my allergies and my insomnia, I swore I'd never have a dog sleep in the same room/bed with me long term ever again. I love dogs, but not in my bed.
We have two dogs. One is only about a year old and has a tendency to chew my rugs when he is board so he sleeps in a crate. Our older dog usually sleeps on the couch. Sometimes she’ll ask to sleep in the crate with the puppy.