Rachel - You are right about dogs and chairs.
My husband has a recliner and I have an old fashioned rocking chair. When we go into the kitchen in the morning to get our coffee, Perry is in Dads chair and Daisy is in my chair. The best part is we leave them in the chairs and we sit on the sofa. We love our dogs so much, they can pretty much sit or lay wherever they want. As you do we have doggie beds in every room but they love those chairs.