For Dog Owners: Does Your Dog Sleep In Your Bed?

[Jennasis]

Perhaps there isn't a way for you to understand. That's OK too, no? It is apparent that you disagree and don't understand. Seems your convictions are as strong as those that have a differing opinion. I don't feel the need to defend my choices and cant understand your need to belittle the choices of others. Truly, you are putting a slew of dog/animal lovers on the defense even if that wasn't your intention.

This.

 

[Linzybrooke]

I have one that does and one that doesn't. Growing up my dog always slept in my bed, but when she died we crate trained the new ones. However, when DH and I adopted our first dog she slept in our bed due to severe seperation anxiety issues. The second one we adopted is happy as can be sleeping in the laundry room every night. I love snuggling with my dog at night, but we do plan on crate training the dog that comes after Sassy.

 

[DawnCt1]

ETA: My poodle sleeps on the foot of the bed and doesn't shed. Oh ... and Dawn Jude is beautiful! I never thought about putting Darci's head fluff (top knot?) in a pony tail holder! I usually have her groomed when I can no longer see her eyes. A pony tail holder will gave me another week or two between groomings .r

It also is a reminder to brush the pony tail and ears everyday.

 

[DawnCt1]

Never in our house.

With our breed, Komondor, it is absolutely imperative that the humans remain the alpha and the dogs at the very, very bottom of the pack.

As others have mentioned, sleeping in the human's bed gives a dog a rise in status, equal to the humans. Consequently, our dogs are never allowed in our bed at any time for any reason. These are big dogs with big teeth and are by nature guard dogs. They also have been breed for hundreds of years to be independent thinkers and do not have that same wanna please the master at all times temperament as your typical dog. Not a breed you want to have thinking they are equal to you and ever thinking they can challenge you.

I don't have a problem with dogs sleeping with their owners and I might allow it if I had a different breed, but with ours, you just can't allow it.

I thought that a Komondor was the 'dread lock dog', beautiful by the way, but I did not realize that they are guard dogs. Interesting. Do you keep your dog in the full coat? Is it a lot of work?

 

[DawnCt1]

I agree that different people do different things but I still don't get it. I "guess" I can understand it if you say it has prevented you from having nightmares. That makes sense. But to just allow your “pet” to sleep in your bed for no reason is just strange to me. At what point do you treat an animal like an animal? If you allow your dog to sleep with you it almost eliminates any boundaries that separate man or woman from animal. IMO there has to be SOME sort of limitation on what you allow your pet to do as it relates to you personal space or else it just looks weird.

We use the bathroom. Jude "goes" outside. We use the shower. He goes to the groomer. We eat at the table with utensils. He eats out of his dog dish. He doesn't drive the car or get to change the channel on the tv, but he gets to lounge on the couch and watch whatever we are watching.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

She does sleep with us. On top of the sheets & duvet. She doesn't shed & is bathed every week.

If I didn't have asthma & severe allergies & had a shedding dog they would sleep on our bed.......

 

[CathrynRose]

Yes, and sometimes they save a spot for me.

Awwww, they're yummy!!!

No open mouth kissing of the dogs in our house.

Geez, my dogs give me kisses on the mouth.....i must be really nuts!

My husband has taken the tongue on occasion. Poor guy laughs while Charley's kissing him, and Charley takes advantage of it.

 

[Quasi123]

My dog likes to sleep in my bed in the winter. The summer is just too hot for her.

 

[CathrynRose]

You can't be serious!

What's with the angry face? Why does a dog kiss make you angry?

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

My husband has taken the tongue on occasion. Poor guy laughs while Charley's kissing him, and Charley takes advantage of it.

Matthias is bad about this. He will wiggle around until he gets you laughing. He also loves to try this when I am on the phone with my parents. I'm normally very successful in keeping him at bay, but every so often he is too quick for me. Yuck.

 

[MM27]

Okay most of what you stated a dog is just simply incapable of doing so that’s obvious. I just wonder what is it with the whole “sleeping in bed” thing. Some of you consider your dog apart of your family. That’s understandable but it doesn’t mean the dog now has the right to sleep with you. Again…it’s an animal. Does that not mean anything? I love my dog but there’s no getting around the fact that dogs do some pretty disgusting things. I don’t know about getting into bed with one.

Kids do some pretty disgusting things too and people let them sleep in bed with them

 

[locolala]

My pooch (now lives with gramma) used to sleep with me everynight. Now, our cats sleep with us. We don't have kids yet, so they are our kids for now. My kitties came potty trained, we've never had an accident. They both get biweekly baths, and they're indoor cats. Do you let your kids get in your bed? They have germs on them too, you know.. I've gotten sick from kids more times than I have from pets, and I was a dog groomer for 2 years!

 

[NJMomma]

My dog sleeps either on the floor or on the bed...his choice!

I know there are those of you that disagree, and that's OK. There isn't room for you in the bed any way

 

[goofy!]

I thought that a Komondor was the 'dread lock dog', beautiful by the way, but I did not realize that they are guard dogs. Interesting. Do you keep your dog in the full coat? Is it a lot of work?

Yup - they are the dreadlock dogs.

Actually, there are two breeds that are corded - the Puli and the Kom.

They are both Hungarian dogs. The Puli is the herding dog, much smaller and comes in black, white, apricot.

The Komondor is part of the Livestock Guardian Dog classification, aka Flockguard. It only comes in white.

They were bred to stay with their flock of sheep and guard them. In absence of an actually flock, their family becomes their flock and they guard it with their lives. Great out on the Putza, can be a problem if you don't know what you are doing in the suburbs. However, it is a completely different way of guarding than a protection dog like a Dobie. In fact, you will never see a Kom as a police dog due to the differences and their independent thinking.

They were bred to spend longs days by themselves with their flock, so were bred to be very independent and to make decisions on their own. They are highly affectionate with their "flock," but they don't fawn or want to please their owners.

Due to this, they make terrible obedience dogs, although it can and has been done. Here is Jago retrieving a dumbell. (Also the cover of a Beck Album)

We just cut down our male to shorter cords, but our female is still in full coat. She is retired from the show ring now, so we will cut her down soon.

It takes about 3 hours per dog to wash and at least 24 hours to dry, in their crates with multiple fans on them. If they don't dry quickly, they can mildew, which causes some nasty smells. Otherwise, the cords are very, very easy to take care of because you never brush, you just occasionally separate the cords to keep them from matting.

I wouldn't have any other breed, but they are not for the beginner. I have already been off-topic enough, but if you want to read more about this unique breed, there is great info here: http://clubs.akc.org/kca/

You know Dawn, you can cord a poodle Not quite as natural as the Kom, but I have seen them at shows and love the look! And you never have to brush again!

Oh, and this breed very rarely kisses (that don't need to please the owner thing), so never have to worry about tongues in our house.

 

[SelfEmployedDebtFree]

We have a full sized (solid white) English Creme Golden Retriever. I have to push her off the foot of the bed sometimes. She likes to sneak up there in the middle of the night. I wake up, and cant move (or feel) my legs, and I have to physically push her off the bed. She's a giant baby.
That is WHEN she sleeps inside. Some nights she sleeps outside. We also have a large Rott/German Shepherd/Collie who sleeps inside some nights. I feel safer knowing they are inside, because he is an excellent guard dog. I pity the fool who breaks into our house. Some nights one is inside and not the other, and vice versa. Some nights they just want to stay outside.

 

[teskak]

We had the same issue with our male schnauzer - they are bred to be independant thinking guard dogs, and will please you, IF it pleases them. Food rewards only work while there is food, take away the food and the effort drops.


Our boy only started sleeping on the bed when he was 11, before that he was mostly crated in our room and chose to sleep there. Our girl schnauzer believes she is a princess and entitled to luxury - BUT only if I am not in the bed. When I get up in the morning, she gets into my spot and willl listen to the alarm and start looking at me when the alarm goes off.

Otherwise she is on blankets on the floor.

Cats are good because they can fit in the space between shoulders and stop the draughts

 

[bballmom56]

Our dog is a St. Bernard, so in answer to the title questions, NO!!! There would be no room for me in the bed (which would be fine with the dog because then she would have DH all to herself)

However, my 2 cats do sleep on the bed with us. We used to keep my boss' dog here once in a while and would let her sleep with DS on his bed. She LOVED that since when she was home she had to sleep in a crate far away from everyone. But she is a medium sized dog and she fit fine. So I am not averse to having a dog sleep on our beds.

 

[monkey68]

My dog sleeps where she wants. She is incredibly spoiled. She has a bed in just about every room in the house. Sometimes, she'll sleep on the actual bed too. When she does, she likes to sleep on the pillow. Sometimes she sleeps on a pillow in the closet (we put it in there because she liked to hide there, we figured she might as well be comfy). Sometimes she'll sleep on the couch in the living room, sometimes she'll sleep under the kitchen table. Most of the time, she wanders at night, so she sleeps a little bit in every spot.

 

[slo]

I LOVE my dog, and I LOVE my husband, but I LOVE my sleep space even more. I don't want my dog anywhere by me when I'm sleeping, so she has her own bed right next to me by my bed, and I have a king size bed, so my DH is by me, but not on top of me - weird, I know!!!!

 

[mrsdon]

Our golden retreiver has a doggie bed in our room.
She sleeps on that every night. But sometimes she will jump up and sleep with us at the foot of the bed.
My DH travels a lot and she will sleep on his side of the bed at the foot and keep me company,
I lile the feeling of the solid comfort of her.