Our precious furry child has developed a naughty new habit. Normally, he sleeps happily in his cage next to our bed. He sleeps. We sleep. Beautiful.
The past couple of weeks have been different. The sun has positioned itself so it shines brightly in our room at about 5-5:30am. Naturally, Ike thinks this is now a good time to get up. I mean, the sun is shining.
Nate and I aren't big on getting up at 5:30am. We definitely aren't big on getting up at 5:30am on the week-ends. The past couple of week-end nights we have let Ike sleep in the bed with us.
He wakes up well rested on Saturday...
Nate was previously anti-dog-in-the-bed. Now he's decided it's better than waking up at 5:30am. I've always been okay with the monster sleeping with us.
I'm curious. How do you feel about animals in the bed? Do your furry friends get to join you or do they sleep where else? Do you and your significant other agree on this issue?
We never let Jack sleep in the bed with us all night unless one of us was out of town. Now he sleeps with us all the time. I felt he wasn't getting as much attention once children came around, so I gave in. Aaron doesn't really care, but he does get mad because the dog tends to lay right next to him most of the time :oP
ReplyDeleteRocco sleeps in our bed. During the night he's not so much fun. He stretches out really long between us and makes me feel like I'm sleeping in a sleeping bag. In the morning he is the snuggliest dog ever. Rocco votes yes on Ike in the bed. I vote yes for anything that does not involve waking up at 5:30
ReplyDeleteOur dog doesn't really like sleeping with us. She generally stays up on the bed until we go to sleep and then goes and sleeps under the bed (she LOVES it under the bed, it's her own little zone) and then around 6am she normally jumps up on the bed and sleeps at my feet until we get up.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know, I have a VERY cool dog.
If anybody is getting kicked out of the bed around here it's me! Haha. Bauer takes up so much room and stretches out to the point where I'm clinging to the side of the mattress sometimes. Yet we still let him up every night. The things you do for your dog! Crazy.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind having the dogs in the bed, but we have large dogs. Our husky could care less and is quite content laying on the floor or on her dog bed, but our other dog would do anything to be on the bed. He is only allowed on when my husband gets up in the morning or when my husband is out of town. He would happily sleep in till whenever we get up, but our husky is up between 530 and 630 every single day. Its a blast...
ReplyDeleteI don't care if people sleep with their pooches (heated plushie!), but with one nervous dog and one very lickety dog it just doesn't work for us. Special occasions only, hah. Although if I convince the husband to get a king bed...
ReplyDeleteMy cat usually sleeps on my pillow and we both agree that she should - and that she needs to go to sleep when we do, otherwise, she's up all night meowing and fighting with the cats outside of the windows.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the other side of the fence on this one it seems. No dogs in the bed. Not ever. Not even when they are fresh out of the tub and poofy from being blow-dried. Nope. Not happening. No matter how adorable they try and be, the answer is still no.
ReplyDeleteOur older dog (lab, 2yrs) is a roiling ball of nervous energy, if she doesn't sleep in her kennel she stays up all night roaming the house or bounding up and down the stairs. She just can't handle the freedom of the lonely hours I suppose. So there's no way she would even stay in bed if we let her be there. Unless she was shredding the blankets. Oh yeah, she shreds because apparently it is like, the best thing ever. ?
Back when I had a cat, I loved it when he slept in my bed with me...so sweet and snuggly! But I never let my other furry child (aka my actual child) in our bed. We let him sleep with us on a vacation recently because he wouldn't sleep anywhere else, and he spent most of the night trying to stick his fingers up my nose and manually pry my eyelids open. HORRIBLE NIGHT.
ReplyDeleteSo....our dogs aren't allowed in our bed. Well, they weren't. But when Shalai kept getting stitches we resorted to having her sleep between us with one of us basically awake all night to keep her from ripping out her stitches. Her stitches are out now, obviously, but "someone" still thinks sleeping between us is a great idea. I no longer think it's a great idea because it's summer, we don't have AC and she's a little furnace. So, we're still trying to figure this one out. She'll wait and jump up on the bed after we're asleep, so I'll wake up to a cuddly puppy sometime in the middle of the night. Stinker.
ReplyDeleteCan we make a distinction between ON the bed and IN the bed? I'm OK with on the bed, my dog could sleep on the bed with me, but once in college I was house sitting for someone and all the sheets were covered with dog hair and I decided no dogs under the covers.
ReplyDeleteIke is so stinkin' cute. I would definitely let him in bed! Stewie insists on sleeping with us. He is not big enough to jump into bed so we actually have to pick him up...if for some reason he is asleep elsewhere in the house when we go to bed he will wake us up in the middle of the night to be put in bed. Spoiled I tell ya!
ReplyDeleteHeidi slept with us because a mini schnauzer doesn't take up much room in our bed. The goldendoodle on the other hand does and she gets too hot and then starts panting which makes the entire bed shake with panting. (I realize that sentence sounds really really wrong.) They both now sleep in the laundry/mudroom on their dog beds. Plus if you add one child into the mix, pretty soon our queen bed is too small. Ike looks so cute and snuggly, how can you say no to that face?
ReplyDeleteCharlie is can sleep with us during nap time, but not all night. He is abed hog, and moans if we move him.
ReplyDeleteLexi used to sleep with us at night before I was pregnant. But by the end of my first pregnancy there was not enough room for my extra tall husband, my extra big baby belly and a dog who likes to sleep under the covers. She has been in her kennel at night ever since. She sleeps most of the day away on our bed, so we figure that is a good compromise!
ReplyDeletewe couldn't keep the kitties off the bed if we tried! we would be up all night pushing them off haha. thus, they are allowed to take over since everyone knows the cats are really in charge....:)
ReplyDeleteWe go back and forth. We are currently in an "anti dog in the bed" phase because they prevent us from getting a good night's sleep. It won't be long before one of us caves and the dogs end up in bed with us again.
ReplyDeleteSeveral of our dogs sleep with us (some combination of 4 out the 5 of them like the bed), now that we have a king size bed. We both agree that they're welcome to sleep with us, but I tend to get the short end of stick by getting squeezed to the edge of the bed. Some times, though, they're so rambunctious when they wake up early that they have to get "evicted" so we can sleep in a little longer. 8-)
ReplyDeleteBoth the dogs and the cats are allowed on the bed, which is one of the reasons why we decided to get a king size bed a few years ago. We really don't mind since Bubba sleeps at the end (unless there is a thunderstorm. Then he is almost on top of me...) and Juno curls up in the corner next to me so it's not like we are fighting them for room. My only problem is that the bed gets covered in fur so quickly, even if I brush and bathe them regularly.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the dogs aren't allowed on the couch since Bubba has a tendency to drool when he sleeps and stained our last couch doing so.
Our bed is a no-Jack zone. I don't want dog hair in my bed. The end. Jack sleeps in his kennel in our bedroom. Since he was a puppy we've put a sheet over his kennel at night because when he was a puppy he would wake up with the sun and wake us up. He doesn't make a peep until we uncover his kennel and let him out. It's amazing. You should try the sheet method with Ike.
ReplyDeleteScout sleeps on the end down my feet. We tried to keep him off but he's so darn cute. Especially when the alarm goes off in the am, he snuggles up by us for a morning snuggle. But most of the time he's down by my feet!
ReplyDeleteSorry to be a buzz kill, but there are a ton of studies that show people who allow their pet(s) to sleep with them don't often achieve REM. Also, (and this is the main reason our dogs are NEVER allowed in/on our bed or on our furniture) the amount of bacteria found in the beds of people who allow pets was INSANE. Fecal matter, urine, and various other types of bacteria they pick up from being outside (even if they are only in their own yards).
ReplyDeletePoodles in the bed! Yes! It's very pleasant in the winter but not so much in the summer. However, she tends to go to her own bed in the summer since it's hot. She's smart that way. We are always amused by her hogging the bed. I usually sleep through it though. And since poodles don't shed it's a win!
ReplyDeleteI love my dogs, but they smell, and also like to lick their privates in the middle of the night, and oh yeah, scratch the bed until they find the perfect spot....then repeat again in a couple of hours. I can't even have them in the same room because they are so noisy at night, one of them even snores...I already have a snorer in the room, don't need another one, thank you very much! I'm also a clean freak, so they had no chance in the world. I do however, understand the "I rather sleep with him in bed, than being awaken so early in the morning" thing, but I only experienced that with my kiddos, one of them would not sleep in his crib, as soon as I put him down, he would wake up, and start crying, after six months of no sleep, he joined us in bed. I see no problem with Ike sleeping with you, as long as you guys don't mind.
ReplyDeletewe let the dogs sleep with us until they gave us poison ivy!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe only animal in my bed is the one I married!!
ReplyDeleteEve sleeps in our bed - she always has! I'm sure when we eventually get a dog, he'll sleep in the bed, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm big on my pets being snugglers, and bringing them to bed with me is a sure way to make them enjoy a good cuddle session :)
Cats are allowed--but can be annoying. They like to sleep on us/smashed up against us/sprawled in such a way that they dominate 75% of the bed and we are left to share the remaining 25%. We'd have to close the doors if they weren't allowed in the room, but then they'd scratch and mew, and that would be annoying, too. I don't think we can win.
ReplyDeleteNo, but only because of Andy. Otherwise, I have no problem rolling around in black dog hairs all over my white sheets. She's cuddly and sweet and deserves to take up at least half of our queen bed.
ReplyDeleteI loved reading all these comments!! We have a no dog in bed rule...unless Aaron is gone. :-)
ReplyDeleteJuneau, Sitka, and Poquito are not only allowed in bed, but I imagine that I'd have difficulty keeping them out of the bed. Because two of the three are snow dogs, and this is Texas, they don't snuggle during the summer months. Poquito is a year round bed hog! During the winter, Juneau and Sitka enjoy sleeping with me. A queen-sized bed just isn't quite big enough!
ReplyDeleteRosie is still in her crate but barks at 5:30 to get up and I just want to shoot myself! Everyone tells me that she will sleep better in our bed but my husband will never go for it and I am not sure I am ready to start that habit! Plus, every now and then one of my sons will show up in the middle of the night. The bed would just be too crowded!
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Cooper is allowed but I throw a fit if he gets on my clean sheets. I made him a great dog bed and put it on the floor on my side but he could care less....such a spoiled brat
ReplyDeleteYui sleeps with us, but she has very good manners about it. She just sleeps at the foot of the bed and doesn't bother us at all. My husband has been away on business trips recently, so it is really comforting knowing that there is another being in the bed with me. It makes me feel safe at night, but I love it best when we are all together! We are lucky because Yui does not shed and she is a clean little beast. There was one time that I was pet sitting at my in-laws house years ago and I had five huge dogs in bed with me. It was almost claustrophobic, but man did they make me feel loved! :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading the other comments and looking at that adorable shot of Ike! What a handsome boy!
I let the first dog (Leila) start sleeping in the bedroom as soon as she was potty trained. The first couple of weeks she "slept" in the kitchen where she would cry literally all night long. Once there was no fear of rug pottying she was in the bedroom floor. She eventually learned to climb the bed and she has slept with me since. (it took her months to figure out the jumping thing. I guess when you are a big dog who knows how to climb like a cat jumping is over rated.) When the second dog showed up (Django) he immediately climbed in bed with us and that was that. Now that I am single he typically sleeps on the pillow next to me and Leila stretches out diagonal and lays her head on my legs or tummy. She is over 100 lbs and he is around 65 lbs, so if I ever find myself in a relationship again it will be necessary to by a king sized bed.
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