no pets on the bed? no way...

**fairlady68** · 10-30-2007, 07:05 PM

I looked at the results of the current pet poll, which asks if our pets sleep in our beds. I cannot believe that only 6% of pets sleep in our beds. A huge percentage, according to the poll, are not allowed. There must be some glitch here, right??? Almost everyone I know who has a cat or dog lets him/her sleep in the bed, and the critters are most able and willing to do so without hesitation.

**critter crazy** · 10-30-2007, 07:45 PM

My dogs are not aloowed on the bed, they have their own beds, and if they joined me on mine, the bred would break! a big disadvantge to large dogs. But my cats do sleep on the bed. Who am I to tell a cat No??

**Taz_Zoee** · 10-30-2007, 07:57 PM

Both of my kids sleep with me. As shown in my posts in Dog & Cat General - A rare sight in this house - threads.

Yeah, must be a huge glitch!!!

**Twisterdog** · 10-30-2007, 11:46 PM

My dogs don't sleep in our bed. I love my dogs, but I don't love their hair in my sheets. Plus, we have seven dogs, and a full size bed for DH and I. No WAY would everyone fit.

**Danegirl2208** · 10-31-2007, 12:13 AM

My dogs don't sleep on the bed because there just isn't enough room!
Have you ever tried to sleep with 400lbs of dogs trying to squeez and sleep beside you, or worse on TOP of you? LMAO...Not the most comfortable way to sleep

**DrKym** · 10-31-2007, 12:55 AM

Ok I bed down with 2 cats one parrot and one lory and a husband.......................that doesn't include the dogs when they arent smothering the kids!

**chocolatepuppy** · 10-31-2007, 05:27 AM

My cats are allowed on the bed,although they prefer to use it while I'm at work all day.

My Layla sleeps on the bed with me, Lacey however is no longer allowed to jump on or off the bed due to her knee surgeries, so she has a great bed to sleep on right near the bed.

**Pam** · 10-31-2007, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by Freckles

I agree, must be a glitch.

I agree. We have even had threads about how many of us have pets in our beds and I am sure there are more people that do than don't. My dogs are most definitely in the Big Bed every night. The kitties tend to sleep in a kitty ball by themselves. Andy, in particular, doesn't like it when anyone moves in the bed so he was never fond of group sleeping.

**-Pickle-** · 10-31-2007, 06:19 AM

the only place we dont let the dog sleep on is the sofa. otherwise all the cats and Red can sleep where they want. on beds, on blankets, in the middle of the kitchen floor...

**i love my piggy** · 10-31-2007, 01:53 PM

I have a guinea pig and she sleeps in my bed when I am doing my homework and she loves it...but I have to be very careful because I have a loft bed...I don't want her to fall out!!! But I NEVER sleep with her...I don't want to smush her or have her fall out!

**Randi** · 10-31-2007, 02:08 PM

HA! When Fister first came up here, I said: He's NOT sleeping on the bed! I must have been out of mind, saying a thing like that! LOL! Of course he sleeps on the bed - I even have to move over a bit sometimes - and I'm happy to.

**carole** · 10-31-2007, 02:49 PM

All my four cats have a bed each, Ash never uses his and during the day will sleep upstairs on occasion, they all chose to sleep where they want, but at night time only lexie comes upstairs and sleeps on top of the bed,she never has tryed to come in and even though i have gently tryed to persuade her won't have a bar of it, however as i am allergic to cats, it is best that i keep it to a minimum in my bedroom as my allergies flare up too much, anyhow we have a good thing going here, all the other's are quite happy to sleep downstairs so i am not about to change that, i like that lexie has her own special place, she has had to put up with the invasion of the two other girls in her life , and tolerates them rather well.

I cannot imagine having a cat and not having it either in your bed or on top, that is part of owning a kitty IMO.

**Argranade** · 10-31-2007, 04:24 PM

My birds are always allowed on my bed, even tho my mom hates it, there droppings stain even when I clean it up so I change my sheets allot. I use a bunk bed for now so sometimes Shiney sleeps beside me, I hook his little hut on top. Letting my birds sleep right beside me could be dangerouse if I rolled over during the night yikes! But other than that my birds are free to snuggle beside me while I watch t.v, take a small snooz ect...

You can see Shiney inside his hut on my Siggy photo.

**cassiesmom** · 10-31-2007, 04:44 PM

i'm laughing as I read this thread because Cassie changes sleeping places 2-3 times every night. She starts off with me, usually on her pink blanket at the foot of the bed. Then she either sleeps on her other blanket, which is on the love seat in the front room, or in the bedroom closet where it's warm. In the morning I usually find her on the love seat. I should say she allows me to sleep with her on the portion of the bed that's not occupied by her blanket!

**xVelvet_FuzzButtx** · 11-01-2007, 12:00 AM

We believe in the NILIF and us being the "alpha" as well as not being able to keep them in the ferret room. Our dogs have crates, and pillows when awake. they are only allowed on the sofa if invited.

The shih tzu is an exception because he's small, owned by my sister, and has severe seperation anxiety(he chews himself bloody) so we gave up on crate training.

In the future I am unsure if mine will sleep in the bed..probobly be crate trained with the option of invite.