For those of you that let your dogs sleep with you..

[pitc9]

When my husband is home I share my half of the bed with Sierra, she sleeps on or between my feet and legs and Buddy sleeps on his bed right next to me on the floor.
My hubby does not like dogs in the bed.

But when my hubby is not home
Buddy sleeps RIGHT next to me on the bed, using my hubby's pillow and Sierra sprawls out at the bottom of the bed.

[lv4dogs]

The past week (maybe forever more but thats a different story) I'm the only human on my queen size bed.
Raustyk gets about 2/3 of the bed, usually on my left side (if I'm laying on my back), then theres me and then Meko the cat usually on my right.

Nanook can't jump on the bed so he sleeps on the floor. Which is good cause he sheds bad, but don't get me wrong if he could jump up by himself I'd let him stay it's just I won't help. lol Besides even when he was younger he'd only lay on the bed till I fell alsleep then he'd jump off & I don't want him trying to jump off when I'm sleeping in case he gets hurt.

Tiki doesn't want any part of snuggling yet unless he's on the ground. That & Meko & him are not the best of pals yet. I have been rudely awoken the past few night by Tiki trying to hop up on the bed with Meko & they both start hissing & growling. But it could also be Tiki pestering Meko & not really trying to cuddle on the bed. He knows Meko is not too fond of him & he bugs the snot out of her, knowing it irks her. He's such a twirp sometimes.


Years ago, in Nanooks younger days he'd sleep with me, but was never there when I woke up. So one night I stayed up but pretended to sleep to see what he does. I had to keep VERY still to find out.
He'd get on the bed, lay right next to me. He'd lay there for about an hour, making sure I was asleep. Then He'd start to adjust his legs for sitting, but wouldn't quite sit. He'd stay like that for about 20 minutes. Then he'd sit up & stay there for a while. Then he'd stand & stay there for a while. Then he'd walk to the end of the bed and lay back down. Then he'd do the whole prcess over again (sit, stand etc....)
If I moved ONE INCH, he'd HURRY right back up by me like he never even moved. lol
Eventually if I was still long enough he'd hop off the bed.
No wonder he'd sleep all day. It took him a good few hours before he hopped off the bed to get some sleep of his own.

[2crazypuppies4me]

LOL, I love this thread LOL

Lilly usually kisses me then crawls under the covers and sleeps behind my knee's, if it's to hot like last night she'll slink up and sleep like a person bhind my head, back to back.
Maggie sleeps in front of me sometiems curled up in a ball by my tummy and sometimes sharing my pillow with my arm around her.
So I'm not an artist like some of you
Oh and before I forget to mention, I turn my air to 60 before I go to bed so I don't wake up all yucky, sweaty The winter will be much better, I can just turn the heat off and open windows

[Logan]

If our dogs all got in the bed, there would be no room for any humans, let alone two of them! LOL!!!! I am a very, very poor sleeper, and even when I was not married, I did not do well with the dogs in the bed with me (back when I only had two and a queen sized bed). Helen would usually start out the night with both Honey and Lilly in her queen sized bed. These days, it's hard enough for me to sleep with my husband sleeping next to me and our dogs do not like to go upstairs where Helen's room is and usually spend the night in the kitchen together (there are 4 now, of course).

When hubby is out of town, I do let them come back and sleep in the room with me and they just surround the bed on the floor and are perfectly content.

Logan

[slleipnir]

Zeke won't sleep on my bed at all. I have no idea why. When we went to florida, I told him to come up with me, but by morning he was on my moms bed (she doesn't even live with him and almost never sees him!!! why would he like her more? lol)

Anyway, Josie doesn't have any one spot.She usually sleeps right beside me or at my feet. Kiba sleeps on the pillow next to my head.

[ramanth]

I wish Kia would sleep on the bed with me, but I guess she feels it's too small. I too have a twin sized bed and if I'm in bed, she only sticks around for no more than 5 minutes.

Zam and Logan however, cuddle in the crook of my legs, against my chest, or against my back.

Andy has a queen sized bed, so when we stay the night with him, Kia will sometimes sleep at the foot of the bed.

But I think she likes rotating. Often when I wake up she's either on the floor by the bed, in her dog bed, in her crate, or on the couch.

[Chilli]

I have a full-sized bed, but when my sister moves off to college, I'll get to have a king-sized
Right now, I have three sleeping with me (including Khaith). Ethan likes to sleep by my knees, and he stretches out, taking up half of the bed. Frisk sleeps on the other side of me (he never sleeps on the same side as Ethan), with his face even with mine, breathing his doggy breath in my face all night. He sleeps with only his head out of the covers, with his head on my pillow. He's so sweet ... Khaith likes to sleeps curled up around my head, he's a bit weird. He purrs constantly until he goes to sleep, and if you moves at all, he will wake up and start purring again. By the morning, I've already gotten up at 3 a.m. to let Khaith out, Ethan has rolled over in his sleep, falling on the floor. He doesn't wake up when he falls no idea why. But then again, my bed is less than a foot off the floor.
I thought I was crowded, but after reading some of ya'lls sleeping arrangements, I feel like I need another dog to fill the gap by my feet

[JenBKR]

Roscoe doesn't usually sleep on the bed, and hubby prefers it that way But when he gets up for work I call Roscoe up and we snuggle Katie used to sleep on my husband's head, wrapped around it. It was really cute

[caseysmom]

Casey sleeps in between me and my hubby. Bubba can't be trusted out yet, he sleeps in his excercize pen. I have let him sleep with us a few times but I worry he will get into something.

[elizabethann]

What a funny thread. Fenway sleeps near my legs or my back or my tummy...depending on his mood. His kitty brother sleeps on the pillow, near my legs or near my chest.

The funny thing about Fenway is when he has to poop, he sits and stares at me. Well in the middle of the night he wakes up and shakes (I can hear his tags clinking) so I open my eyes and he is sitting there staring at me. I think he has to poop, so I get up and throw some clothes on. But what he really wants is for me to get up so he can have the warm spot! I'll come back to the bedroom and he's sleeping in my spot!

This happend for months until I finally figured out what he was doing (I don't think clearly at 2am). So now I don't move. He's forced to sleep in the cold spots!

[IRescue452]

Its too funny looking to draw but I sleep sprawled out face-down taking up most of the queen-sized bed and Autumn finds that my legs make a nice bed so she sleeps right between my knees and ankles so that I can't possibly move my legs at all. Sonny, if and when he sleeps on my bed, is usually upside down with his feet in the air near one of my feet.

[grybai]

Payson's not allowed in the bedroom so he doesn't get to sleep in my bed at night (although I know he would love it), and he's usually in the crate at night (at least for now). Even if I eventually do let him into my bedroom, he's not allowed on any of the furniture because it makes him cocky and aggressive towards the kitties.

However, since he was sick, I let Dewey sleep on my bed while we had him. He used to like to sleep curled up in a ball right between my legs like a cat!

[Glacier]

Technically, the dogs have to wait to be invited up on the bed. There is one exception to that rule, Franklin. Franklin gets up and down at will. He likes to sleep by our feet and use my legs as his pillow. Franklin is allowed to this as it's such a huge step for him. He used to afraid of his own shadow. It's just been the last six months or so that he's been brave enough to snuggle. So we let him.

When Stuart is away, Earle and Chum take over his side of the bed. Chum often sneaks up on the bed during the night anyway. He's smart enough to only do it on my side. He knows I'll let him stay!

Lots of them like to take over our bed when no one is in it and that's allowed. We also leave the futon in the living folded down for them most of the time. It's only up when we have guests over who might like a couch to sit on!

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by Glacier
Technically, the dogs have to wait to be invited up on the bed.

Yep. No exceptions here.

My three always go to their beds when I call them into my room for night time. Then I lay down and call one up at a time.

[ParNone]

Wow don't know how you do it with 3 dogs on a twin with you. I'd never get any sleep. I gotta be free to move around on the bed a lil', while sleeping.

When it was Me, Maddie, Murph and Oz, I had a Full sized bed and felt cramped. I had the right side of the bed. Maddie would sleep on her back, next to my head, with her back feet resting on my shoulder. Murph would sleep at the foot of the bed, in the far left corner. Oz would sleep in the middle between those two and always seemed to have the spot where I wanted my knee to rest.

About the time I got Gull, I decided to get a King sized bed, thinking no way would a full be big enough with 2 Collies, Me and Murph. Turns out though that Gull has height issues, so he doesn't like sleeping on the bed. He sleeps on the floor next to me in his own bed.

Murph and Oz move around to different spots now, but ultimately seem to end up similar to where they were with the Full. Murph at the foot in the far left corner. Oz in the middle, right next to me, with either his long nose resting on my feet or resting on my shoulder, depending on the direction he chose to sleep in. Still taking up that spot, I'd like my knee to be in.

So there I am in this big ole King sized bed with the same amount of sleeping space, I had before.

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