To ask if your pet sleeps on your bed?

Mine loves her crate, it’s her safe safe. If she’s tired she will go in there of her own accord and snuggle down. I agree if they are unhappy in there it isn’t great, but with the right training it needed be bad.

Before you call me monster she takes up more of the bed at night than I do!

Living room door is shut at night. Eldest daughters (14 & 15)have high sleepers, youngest (9) has a safety gate on her door. We make sure. Its a preference for us. I don't judge others for their choices. My sister has a menagerie of pets who go wherever in her house. It's just our choice here in our home. Luckily our remaining cat is 14 so definitely prefers her own space anyway and has unfortunately lost the desire/ability to comfortably climb.

My dog sleeps on my bed & he’s so good, I carry him up, put him on & he goes straight to sleep & doesn’t move all night!

My cat has to stay downstaitlrs as she’s wake us up!

What do you think?

Quite! I adore our dogs, they’re beloved members of our family. They also actively choose to eat shit sometimes - neither they, nor their unshowered arses are allowed on beds or sofas! They have their own extremely comfortable beds in the sitting rooms downstairs and the study upstairs

Both our dogs sleep on or in our bed and sometimes the parrot roosts on the bed head.
However they are whippets so short haired. I’ve always wanted a Pomeranian which are fluffy, so if we get one I’m not so sure about one of those in the bed.

My dog (terrier) sleeps on/in my bed. Made it very clear to DH years ago that dog is #1 to me 😂 older boy was there before DH before we lost him age 16, and then he lasted a week before he said it doesn't feel right without a pup snuggled up 😂 she's clean as she goes in the sea daily, and she is right at the bottom of the bed. Sheets get changed weekly, at least, so 🤷, they are family to us

Oh get a grip, crates are necessary sometimes and anyone who fails to prep their dog to spend time in a crate (gradually, at the dogs pace, using no force and no distress) is setting their dog up for major distress if they need to travel in one, stay at the vets for any length of time without the owner, or recover from surgery/injury in one, and many surgeries/injuries do require strict crate rest.

Locking a dog in a crate without training them to associate the crate with rest and rewards is unkind and dogs should not spend long periods in them outside the above situations, but to claim ALL crate use is barbaric is horribly narrow-minded and ignorant!

Cat yes, sleeps at my feet. Dog would love to but no way. I would be woken at 5am with a face wash!!

No. Ddog sleeps in the kitchen and has done since the first day we brought her home.

I haven't had a partner in years. My cat matters much more than a person. I had what was going to be a drunken one night stand a few years ago and he PUSHED my cat off the bed and was rude about him - I immediately lost the mood and kicked him out of the house (the bloke, not the cat).

Oh the things my dog has seen!

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Yes she does 😆. Sometimes under the cover - she spoons me 🙄😆. She is 12 years old and only 7kg, a dinky dog, but by god does she take up the most room!

Here she is wanting tummy tickles.

My dogs and cats have their own beds blankets and a heated pad each for the winter and a cool pad in the summer. All down stairs in the sitting room, dining room and kitchen.

Ok. But are you there in shifts 24/7? Because I pretty much guarantee a cat will go where it’s not supposed to.

My dog has a tail that covers her anus. And she sleeps at the foot of my bed. If she scoots up to my end, it is her head that does, not her back end.
And dog hair is just hair. That is plenty of my own in my bed.

Our last dog always slept on our bed. Just as well it was a nice big one.
Former dog slept on the floor by my side of the bed. He never disturbed us, but he always knew the second I was awake, even if I hadn’t opened my eyes or barely moved.

We used to command him off the bed but now he sees us kissing he slinks off and lays in the corridor outside until we call him back.

Cat used to be shut out as she’d stare.

Yep me too!
Now only have one small rescue dog & she has steps to get up on the bed. She curls up in the crook of my knees & is just as much my hot-water bottle as I am hers!
She's just so cute & I love her!

Most nights at least one cat on my legs. Some nights three. But they're my babies so happy to co-sleep. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Our three cats sleep in our bedroom. They rotate during the night to their beds beside ours, on the bed, draped accross random furniture lol.

Then at 4am they are all kicked out because they get the zoomies. We will close the door then until it's time for us to get up.

They know the routine though and quite often they will all just leave the bedroom at 4am and hang out outside the open bedroom door.

My poodle sleeps downstairs in her basket. I have enough trouble sleeping, without a fidgety poodle waking me up.

I've got 2 cats and 2 dogs and they all sleep in the lounge. They are not allowed upstairs.

Yes my dog sleeps on our bed, on her own blanket though not under or on our duvet but I just think, look they are part of the family and they are not around very long so let them on the bloody sofa, bed and anywhere else where we find comfy :) as long as they are comfy and content too!

She does have free rein to jump off though and sleep in her own bed if she wants and sometimes does this.

But that’s just us 🥰

Dog sleeps downstairs (free roam of all the sofas, bed and blankets) and you’d honestly think we made her sleep in a cardboard in the garden the way some people go on! Totally legit to not want your dog in the bed you can very much still adore your pet.