The Great Couch Debate

[Sudilar]

Where do your dogs sit?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid52/p93459630f39643e72ac4f115009b8314/fc9a16b2.jpg

[tomkatzid]

They can only get on the couch if invited up. Other wise, their beds by the fire.

[primabella]

mickey isn't allowed on furniture until he gets over his teething and chewing. he is allowed up only if he is on someone's legs. he has a bed in the livingroom. :D

[Albea]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid52/pcd8acde4a6ef242ffe3182d86a7f7ef0/fc9a0b1a.jpg Carina discovered the joys of the couch the very same day she came home, she was six months old at the time, when I took this picture.;)Now her favorite place is my bed, but I have to tell her it's alright to come up every night. Other than that, she has beds of her own all over the house.

[micki76]

Anyplace they want. :D The couch, the back of the couch, the rocker-recliner, the back of the rocker-recliner. The beds, their otherwise useless beds, on the desk when I'm online sometimes. Oh, and the worst part? Chester has his own lawnchair for suntanning. We've covered it in fabric so the plastic doesn't get hot!! LOL!!
Boy, do they have me trained or what???:eek:

One of the most interesting things I've noticed here on PT is how many couches are covered in blankets, sheets etc. :D :D

[KYS]

Pepper is little and doesn't shed much.
Pepper is allowed on the furniture and beds.
Rocky and Sheba are not allowed on the furniture.
At one time, I use to let Sheba sleep on the bed, but I put a stop to it, because she sheds to much and also took
up to much room. :)

[Cincy'sMom]

Just look at my sig :) We started out, no dogs on furniture. Then it once chair only. Then it was okay for Sadie to be on the couch if she was snuggling. Then it was the living room, but not bedroom. By the time we got Cincy, it is fair game, dogs can go where ever they want, people are lucky to NOt be on the florr :) They aren't allowed on the furniture at Grandma's (Ralph's mom's) though, and they don't even try to get on it.

[wolfsoul]

timber likes to sit in chairs...she thinks shes a person lol :rolleyes:

[LoudLou]

All our pets, even when I was a kid, have always been allowed on all furniture and have always slept with us....Louie has a couple of beds throughout the house, but of course he only sleeps in them when his Kitties will let him.;)

[aly]

My dogs can go wherever they want. They sleep in bed with me under the covers and (hehe) they usually steal the couch and I'm left to curl up in the dog bed !!! :D :D :D

[Rachel]

Funny that you should bring this question up today. This is the dogs favorite chair in the house. It is also my favorite chair. Let it be said that due to this chair having 2 - 3 beings on it day in and day out for quite a few years, I had to acknowledge that it was getting rather ratty looking. We stopped in at the Lazy Boy Gallery today just to walk around and ended up ordering not one but two new chairs. They will be a slightly different style and won't be able to accommodate 2 dogs and me at the same time. Someone will be in for a rude awakening.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid42/p1d325ca496d09537fc08736aca19e1da/fceee9da.jpg

[Cheshirekatt]

We bought a futon just for the dogs. That way I can just throw the cover in the wash once a week or so. They aren't allowed in the bedroom or on the bed.

[tomkatzid]

ended up ordering not one but two new chairs. They will be a slightly different style and won't be able to accommodate 2 dogs and me at the same time. Someone will be in for a rude awakening

So I guess that means you bought one for you and one for them:D :p :D
Tucker and Hanna are very cute:D I Never saw a cocker I didn't love. Tucker your a doll:)

[lovemyshiba]

What a cute picture Rachel!!!!
Our dogs are not allowed on the furniture, since we just bought it--I'm sure the rule will slide eventually, as they are allowed up if they are on one of our laps--if it were entirely up to me, they would be there all the time, but we compromise--they can go on the bed, but not the couch or chair!!

[Pam]

This is not a couch picture but it points out that they pretty much sit/lay wherever they want. :) This is one of the few pictures that I have where most of my furkids were snoozing in a little clump. Of course by the time I got the camera out they woke up and started moving around. :rolleyes: Heaven only knows where Andy was. :rolleyes: One of these days I'll get the 4 of them together in the same place . (hopefully).

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid52/p26f2018959117d0c206ed753783153d0/fc99832b.jpg

[Cincy'sMom]

I'll even takeit one further...here is Sadie sitting at the table during a haunted house meeting...

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid34/p0e928a2399334551f57e63112586a8b6/fd34abef.jpg

[Pam]

Here's another favorite place of theirs. They love to recline on the recliner! ;) Ripley isn't in this picture because he hadn't come to live with us yet. :) (Andy sort of blends into Bella.) My apologies to the dogs for bringing CATS into this thread!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid47/p708ef786f3d1e44c85ef90835fa7b72e/fcc3005b.jpg

[Jessica12345]

anywhere they want! :D :D :D :D

[captain]

They have their own couch, and each has their own bed!

They can lie on the bed, if either myself or my husband is in the bed, and NOT if we both are in the bed, because then their is no space for us!
They tend to lie under the bed - nice and cool.

They know they are NOT allowed on the new couch ...... well, now they do :D . At first, they thought it was just another couch for them :D

[shais_mom]

I used to let Keegan on the couch when she was a baby to snuggle, now I don't. But she does sleep in bed with Kylie and I. Kylie is allowed to go whereever she pleases. She jumps up in my lap when I am eating ice cream. I am waiting for Keegan to do that!!! :eek:

[DoggiesAreTheBest]

Drake is allowed anywhere expept the new couches in our livingroom. We hang out mostly in the family room, and he is allowed on the furniture in there. In the living room, he has a bed that matches the new loveseat and sofa.

[Rachel]

Originally posted by DoggiesAreTheBest
In the living room, he has a bed that matches the new loveseat and sofa.

We would love to see a picture!

[Dakota's Mommy]

My girls get to go pretty much wherever they want to. However, we do make them get down when we want them down and they usually pretty much listen. At times, they act like the love seat is their couch and Dakota acts like the chair is hers alone and seems upset if Destiny tries to get up there with her. They also have their own beds but they usually get to be on the furniture without a fight from mom and dad as you can see!
On "Dakota's Chair"
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid46/pf6a752105d8b3d3d24f11d5994d15c4a/fcd15065.jpg
On "Their Loveseat"
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid46/pd4ed46bcdb2f181cd82ae0d435af592c/fccd61d7.jpg
On the Couch!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid51/pb9d9434aa2fdc231a76aa7be6011320a/fc9f706d.jpg

[Rachel]

Dakota and Destiny's positions are so funny. Being as their coloring is so similar, it is almost hard to tell where one of them ends and the other begins. :D :D

[Sudilar]

Originally posted by Rachel
Dakota and Destiny's positions are so funny. Being as their coloring is so similar, it is almost hard to tell where one of them ends and the other begins. :D :D

I agree!! How cute!!

[Edwina's Secretary]

They will be a slightly different style and won't be able to accommodate 2 dogs and me at the same time. Someone will be in for a rude awakening.

Soooo Rachel! Will you be sitting on the floor cross-legged or how????

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid41/p39a867d8fe54aab14510dc507d669156/fcfb3ef5.jpg
My parents dog, KC, at my Thanksgiving Dinner.

[tomkatzid]

OH, KC you are just the cutest thing:D :D

[tomkatzid]

KC can you come for dinner to my house:D I'm waiting for you:)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid52/p101fe6c9d18d1d2e2b7b3c4017c155fd/fc970126.jpg

[Gavin]

Where ever I look the prettiest!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid41/p26e21b56938a93267d45866c635ee561/fcf48c29.jpg

Gavin

[captain]

..... and boy oh boy :o do you look soooooo pretty on that chair Gavin!

[Cookiebaker]

Pam, I especially love the picture with Ripley in it. They look so cozy!! Malone isn't allowed on the furniture...except the bed (when he's invited) and our desk chairs. As soon as we get up and walk away, he claims them as HIS! :D

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Cute pictures, everyone! I have a few pics of Sadie on my bed. She's only allowed on my bed, it used to be just when my mom wasen't looking, and my dad didn't really much care, but now she sleeps with me every night!:) ;) :D

[Jessica12345]

Originally posted by Gavin
Where ever I look the prettiest!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid41/p26e21b56938a93267d45866c635ee561/fcf48c29.jpg

Gavin

you have such a beautiful pom!:D

i think jewlsy has a crush!:p :p :p lol

[zippy-kat]

Our animals aren't *suppose* to be on the furniture (other than the beds). Mom has gone to the extreme of putting stuff in the chairs when we're at work/gone for the day.

As you can see... it REALLY works....

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid52/padeae0ab29a97fe8b97e4e800746214a/fc9643d2.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid52/p43b65950a4aa83447df421ca469024e9/fc9643d3.jpg


:D

[wolf_Q]

All of these pics are TOO cute and funny!! :D

No dogs on couches/beds allowed here. :( Reggie does often get to sit on the computer chair. He also enjoys sitting on the toilet seat. No kidding...I need a pic of that, lol.

They find their way to have some dog furniture anyway though.....

Like my banana chair...
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid30/p57c73af285704e24c1af100e336e871d/fd56b8a8.jpg
Camping chairs...
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid23/p61b3d803cf6eb9b1ac15b5954bfff616/fda3e693.jpg
And the patio furniture is all theirs! Nebo especially enjoys jumping on and off of it all day. Poor dogs, too bad it's covered now because it's winter.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid20/p192400b62e244b2e055de32049f477e2/fdb9695b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid36/pbce8d84a8846f4b317af6e3f210dc183/fd23e76a.jpg

[Tina]

They are allowed to sit or lay wherever they want. Sometimes I have to tell them get off the couch if we have company. They are not allowed in our bed room no more since we got a water bed last weekend. Hubby dearest is afraid they will poke a whole in the bed.

[Cisco's Mom]

Cisco sits where ever he wants to!!:)


His favorite spot has to be right in the middle of my lap!!:D

[Rachel]

Originally posted by Tina
They are allowed to sit or lay wherever they want. Sometimes I have to tell them get off the couch if we have company. .

Our dogs have access to everything as well. This last Monday, my husband had a group of people over (they study Spanish together), and it was a tad embarrassing with the dogs (exciting with the company) running from from one piece of furniture to the next. As soon as someone even looked like they were going to sit down, up popped a dog in that spot.

[cali]

my dogs are allowed on ALL the furnitur, this includes the kitchen table, wellnot the table itself they are allowed on the chairs, and on all the beds, we bought all our couches to match the dogs.....ect.... misty sleeps in her crate until she is trustworthy, and happy and Ripley sleep on my bed, perky sleeps on my moms bed, and shadow sleeps under it, they all have choice though :) and becuz they have so much freedom they dont have the temptation of somthing forbidden know what I mean? they always want what they dont have, well they have everything(furniture wise) so they are perfectly happy on the floor rather then the couch and its their choice :p

[Cincy'sMom]

Originally posted by Rachel


Our dogs have access to everything as well. This last Monday, my husband had a group of people over (they study Spanish together), and it was a tad embarrassing with the dogs (exciting with the company) running from from one piece of furniture to the next. As soon as someone even looked like they were going to sit down, up popped a dog in that spot.

My dogs are always doing stuff like that!! Before we had our basement waterproofed, the salemen was hearing for an evlauation. He was sitting ont he edge of the couch so Ralph and I could see what he was talking about. Cincy jumped up behind him and started licking his ear! Thankfully he was a dog person, and by the time he left, he told us if ever needed to get rid of our dogs, to call him! I told him he'd have to wait in line :)

[Dakota's Mommy]

I told him he'd have to wait in line
Darn right! Those are also my babies with me being their aunt and all!

[shais_mom]

I know this is the dog board but since Keegan isn't allowed on the furniture other than the bed, all I have is pics of Kylie on the furniture.


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/p3722a5623c4d1697c4f0ff5a98cec962/fc92d9ca.jpg


http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid53/pc5f8126c96dc39365701f0111f6be225/fc92dabc.jpg

[Dakota's Mommy]

On Wednesday, as I didn't have to work and Brian didn't know yet, he left to be there on time. We'll as soon as he left, Dakota climbed right up on the couch and positioned herself directly behind where I was reading the paper and sat down behind me. Then she proceeded to lay down and claim it as her. She acted like I was aloud to stay on the edge of the couch, but I better not try to move her, LOL!

Then a night or two later, Brian got up from the couch for something. As he walked back up to the couch, watching tv and paying no attention to the couch, he stood there for a minute watching the tv. Just when he was about to sit down, he almost fell over because Dakota scared him. She had quietly walked right around the coffee table and climbed right up on the couch sitting in his seat without him even knowing she was in the same room. It was halarious to see her starring at him waiting for him to sit down, and then see him flip out because he had no idea she was there. I couldn't understand how he did not see her pull this off, but she did. It was too funny.

[RubyMutt]

Originally posted by Sudilar
Where do your dogs sit?


anywhere the Princess Ruby pleases... :rolleyes:

[liongirl81]

my dogs are aloud on the couches or wherever they want to go they aren't ever hardly in the bedroom the 2 big ones anyway but as for my chihuahua she sleeps on my bed with me evernight she loves it :) Luckily some of our couches are leather easy to wipe up but we are going to be getthing new ones in the new future and for a while i won't be allowing them up :)