Letting pets sleep with you.
Discussion
Our 2 cats sleep in between us/ on me! I often end up pushed out of bed by them. Bought them a little bed of their own to put on the bottom of the bed but they still end up between us most nights. One of them likes to curl up in my neck so I can't move my head & the big one likes to spoon like a human with the duvet pulled up to his neck.
They do the same thing to the poor dog & regularly push him out of his bed at 3am.
They do the same thing to the poor dog & regularly push him out of his bed at 3am.
Cats used to be allowed but shut downstairs at night when children arrived (major guilt fest over that one!!)
Bryn (the dog) yes, his own bed generally though. If very cold he can snuggle down with us and he usually jumps up onto the bed in the morning just before we get up. (our Jimmy boy was the same, I miss him
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Bryn (the dog) yes, his own bed generally though. If very cold he can snuggle down with us and he usually jumps up onto the bed in the morning just before we get up. (our Jimmy boy was the same, I miss him
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It annoys me to have to answer this one this way.... but its a yeah for me (3 dogs currently).
I just find it generally easier to manage if I let them sleep there. My dog that I've had since a puppy can take it or leave it, sometimes she'll sleep on the sofa in another room quite happily. One of my rescue dog just absolutely hates being on his own. He has his own dog bed under my desk and another big dog bed the 3 of them share in the lounge. If I get up and go for a piss or go to get a drink from the kitchen then he's going to get up and come with me.
The chance of me getting him to happily settle in the lounge or kitchen overnight, on his own, is basically non existent. I tried caging him in my bedroom in sight of me, but that didn't work either. Though with hindsight I probably should have tried that before letting him in my bed, not after.
I'm living in an apartment so I find I'm often having to make concessions with training dogs and generally keeping them, that perhaps I wouldn't want to make if I had a detached house and my own garden and so on. If I want to give myself sleepless nights trying to train a dog then fair enough, but its not really fair to impose it on other people too and Potato quickly learned that barking in the night was a good way to get his own way. I'm relying on the goodwill of my neighbours so Potato won that fight unfortunately.... the little s
t doesn't know I'm going to view a detached house on wednesday though 
With a new sort of girlfriend on the go its time for me to fix this anyway and the (hopeful) house move is the ideal opportunity to do it. Its one thing to sleep in a bed with 'your' pet(s) but I can't imagine many people would really be impressed sleeping in a bed with a handful of someone else's
I just find it generally easier to manage if I let them sleep there. My dog that I've had since a puppy can take it or leave it, sometimes she'll sleep on the sofa in another room quite happily. One of my rescue dog just absolutely hates being on his own. He has his own dog bed under my desk and another big dog bed the 3 of them share in the lounge. If I get up and go for a piss or go to get a drink from the kitchen then he's going to get up and come with me.
The chance of me getting him to happily settle in the lounge or kitchen overnight, on his own, is basically non existent. I tried caging him in my bedroom in sight of me, but that didn't work either. Though with hindsight I probably should have tried that before letting him in my bed, not after.
I'm living in an apartment so I find I'm often having to make concessions with training dogs and generally keeping them, that perhaps I wouldn't want to make if I had a detached house and my own garden and so on. If I want to give myself sleepless nights trying to train a dog then fair enough, but its not really fair to impose it on other people too and Potato quickly learned that barking in the night was a good way to get his own way. I'm relying on the goodwill of my neighbours so Potato won that fight unfortunately.... the little s
t doesn't know I'm going to view a detached house on wednesday though With a new sort of girlfriend on the go its time for me to fix this anyway and the (hopeful) house move is the ideal opportunity to do it. Its one thing to sleep in a bed with 'your' pet(s) but I can't imagine many people would really be impressed sleeping in a bed with a handful of someone else's
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