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Merlot really likes fresh sheets:

Nothing wrong with sharing your bed with your pooch.

But,from a security/alert standpoint, your dog is of no use in your bedroom.

My dog is of no use as a security dog anyway. I might as well depend on a fucking goldfish.

My Ridgeback would gladly protect me from a marauding rotisserie chicken. That’s about the extent of it though.

the smaller the dog, the bigger the bed hog...


Our Linko, who was saved from an amish puppy mill, along with her mate, Coopy, loved to sleep in bed with us. At bed time, I would call her with "beddy-bye time, snuggle buggle time" and she would leap up and run for the bedroom.





Shortly before we lost her in August of 2016, we were also fostering a Poodle/Bichon mix and she was so intent on being with us, that she climbed out of her pen and was in bed with us by the second night. The two kids accepted her, right away, but she made every effort to be a part of our gang. We foster-failed and adopted her. She is a Godsend for Coopy. We think Linko arranged it.


oh, and Dobermans will hog up the bed, when you're a little kid, too

My cat is my bed buddy. The purring is relaxing.
And if something is going on outside, she rockets off the bed and runs to whichever window is closest to the action. Never fails to alert me.
Watch cat!

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Dog sleeps in the bed. I sleep better now?!?

I'm glad you are sleeping better. Your house, your bed, your rules.

But in my house, that won't happen.
We have a two story house and the dogs are always trained to stay on the first floor. The bedrooms are upstairs. The dog has a bed near the bottom of the stairs and near the front door. He is a true guard dog, alerting me to strange noises, which usually turn out to be deer or raccoons outside.

This thread really has me thinking. The last several years I have started with sleep issues...getting up at all hours...can't go back to sleep, etc.

Few years back it struck me that when our Border Collie is next to me I fall asleep quickly and STAY asleep. Now I move over a bit, she jumps up on my side and that is it until 0600-0700.

When I travel...sleep issues return.

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My dog presses hard against my legs and causes me to get too hot. She's also got some magical way of moving me towards the edge of the bed over the course of the night, so she can have the middle. For those reasons, I had to move her back to her own bed.

I had to do this with my boy. I had no trouble with him but he kept pushing my wife out of bed! OK, he'd cuddle, she'd get hot and move towards the edge. Then he'd cuddle.

I always had my two mastiff/pit mix boys sleep on the floor. Until one night when the younger one was recovering from a minor surgery and was crying and not able to get comfortable, so I brought him up on the bed and he was fine. Ever since, he wants to sleep on the bed. I'll make them stay on the floor, but as soon as I'm asleep he sneaks up and snuggles up next to me. He's a 75 lb dog, but he's stealthy enough that I usually don't wake up, so in the morning there he is.

Same here, we have 7 dogs, quiet a few sleep in bed with us, usually the smaller ones, 60-70 lbs ones, especially in winter. Got so use to it when I was on trips staying at hotels I had to throw my suitcase on the bed to sleep at night because it didn’t feel right having all the room to stretch out. It’s not uncommon to have a paw shoved in your face at 3 am when one of the are sharing the pillow with you.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Our 140ish pound Labradoodle

uhh... Neither Labs nor Poodles get to be that big. That dog is mixed with something bigger... or really fat

Poodles (lap dig) vs “standard poodles” which are full size dogs which run 50 to 80lbs.

My local gunsmith has two standard poodles at his shop and they are each about 75lb and built like Dobermans when shaved down for the summer.

We have four small breed dogs. Smallest one is 10lbs and doesn't care to sleep on our bed. The other three sleep with us. Largest dog is 20lbs.

The wife and I sleep fine, but when one of them decides to go outside in the middle of the night, I am awake until they come back to bed.

There is something calming about having a dog and seems to help with sleep, at least with me.

I enjoy a "no pets in the bedroom" policy, along with an "if you've got more than two feet, then stay off the furniture" policy. Not everyone in my family agrees with those, but they work well for me.

I don't mind falling asleep on the couch with Miss Boogerhead next to me [on a blanket on the floor], but... I have my bed and she has hers.

All our dogs sleep at the foot of the bed, they have a really good bed, I allow them to come up on the bed for a few minutes but they don't get to sleep on it. My rescue pup has a kennel at the foot of the bed. Until she gets enough brains thats where she will be now and in the future. Always was told never stoop to a dogs level or let them come to yours..

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Originally posted by Jester814:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Our 140ish pound Labradoodle

uhh... Neither Labs nor Poodles get to be that big. That dog is mixed with something bigger... or really fat

Poodles (lap dig) vs “standard poodles” which are full size dogs which run 50 to 80lbs.

My local gunsmith has two standard poodles at his shop and they are each about 75lb and built like Dobermans when shaved down for the summer.

I beg to differ on the Labs. Our full Lab came to us at documented ten and a half years old, a retired Leader Dog For The Blind in Rochester Mi. She was 105 lbs. Our nickname for Lacey was "Waddles" as she swayed from side to side walking down the hallway.

I used to sleep with my wife and our two Boxer females in our queen size bed. My wife said that she didn't know which one of the three of us snored the most...

Now we have a Boston Terrier, lots more room in the bed and just a little bit of snoring (from her anyways...)

My blue heeler feels the need to sleep on top of me so he sleeps in his damn kennel.

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Originally posted by Jester814:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Our 140ish pound Labradoodle

uhh... Neither Labs nor Poodles get to be that big. That dog is mixed with something bigger... or really fat

Neither. He's a 1st Gen 50/50 Labradoodle. And he's not fat. If anything, he's kinda gangly/lanky. He's just a big dude. (When he stands on his hind legs, he can put his paws on my 5' 4" wife's shoulders.)

His father was a large purebred Standard Poodle. His mother was a large purebred Lab. So he comes from large stock. Plus, he was already 2x the size of his littermates at birth.

For comparison, most other Labradoodles are 60-80 pounds, so he's roughly double the normal size.

We get asked all the time if he's an Irish Wolfhound, due to his size and build.

I saw a Husky taken out of a mini van which was freakishly large. Im talking as tall on all 4s as a Dane. He easily broke 125 pounds. People in McDonalds were coming out to see and pet him. I never seen a Husky get that large.