To ask if your pet sleeps on your bed?

Working cocker spaniel slept downstairs for 2 years but moved to his own bed in our room when the kitchen was done. At 3 years old I was going through an emotional/shit time and he jumped onto the bed and snuggled when I was crying one night. He has been there ever since. He’s now 4.5 and generally sleeps at the bottom of the bed.

we just got a sprocker pup who is 15 weeks old and sleeps in a crate in our bedroom. Once she’s not chewing everything, she’ll be on the bed. Dh predicts it’ll be before she’s a year. She’s the sweetest pup. They make my heart happy.

Cat used to make the effort to wake me up by sitting on my full bladder at 5am but frankly these days she just phones it in (by rattling the cat flap and howling up the stairs).

Dog sleeps under the duvet, perpendicular to me because how else would a 9kg dog manage to take up most of a king-size bed?

One time when DH and I were being amorous in the day time, the bedroom door was open (pre kids!) and unbeknownst to us one of the cats came in. Didn't realise until it started licking DHs butt! Bedroom door has been firmly shut ever since.

Our dogs sleep in their own bed in the living room and aren't allowed on the sofa or on beds. Their bed is a lovely cosy doggy sofa. I don't want to sleep in a hairy sandy pit or sit in one in the evening. Plus the sofa is new and cost a fortune.

They get the memo fairly quickly and retreat to a safe distance.

When our first terrier puppy arrived in 2007 we swore that she would never sleep on the bed - she'd have her own bed in our room. 2 weeks of broken sleep and overnight toilet training later, I slept through her crying and DH popped her in our bed, so that was that.

She slept with us every night for her 12 years, and now we have two more that curl up with us. I miss their warm presence around my legs and feet when we go away without then.

Interestingly, I have diagnosed Contamination OCD but the hygiene issue has never troubled me at all. I mean, I have my limits but whilst I'll have an epic meltdown if someone puts an outside shopping bag on my worktop, the proximity of the dog's arsehole when sleeping on our bed never seems to trigger me...

Obviously if they are filthy, smelly or have visible clinkers then they get bathed. They're only small, 8kg and 10kg.

A question for those with pets in their bed and who also share that bed with a partner: how do you stop it impacting your sex life? Do you shut the pet out and bring them in later?

Our dog doesn’t share our bed, but has different beds around the house to choose from.

The voice of reason!
I will never understand why people want dog anuses on their pillow and hair all over their bedsheets. And a fartung partner is bad enough, let alone a farting dog!

We had a (Bengal) cat like that … if you let him upstairs at night he would just yowl when he fancied a midnight snack! He’d also nip your toes under the duvet if you didn’t respond to his early morning calls for breakfast!

I have a large dog who stinks, farts and sheds. No way she is sleeping in my bed. Sometimes I let her come in the morning for a 5 min cuddle, otherwise she is in her own bed downstairs and my bedroom door is firmly closed.

Boy cat sleeps at the bottom and occasionally sleeps on my feet

Girl cat will jump on me, but if I pretend to be asleep and keep my arms/hands in (she will put her head in my hands to insist I rub her) she will go off and settle in between my legs

Previous cat spent the first three months sleeping in my armpit

DDog used to snooze on the spare bed all day and also it wasn't unusual for her to be found on our bed of the door was open. But she was shut up downstairs at night (had a very comfy bed and was quite happy there).

Not at night.

I don't have an issue with animals on my bed, they sleep on it in the day (I have a bedspread for this exact purpose!). But they don't sleep on it overnight, they disturb me too much. Dog sleeps in the utility room and the cats sleep wherever they can find, but not in my room!

I stopped the cats sleeping on the beds after I found 3 dead fleas on the bed. The cats are given flea treatment monthly. If husband had his way he would sleep spooning his favourite cat.

You just train them not to and give them plenty of comfy spaces of their own..If we had dogs we would not let them either.

Mine sleeps in bed with me, under the duvet. Shes thin skinned and likes the warmth.

My cat sleeps in the bed during the day & on it at night.

Waking up after a bad dream to a snoring purry lump heals all ills.

My cat is a total pain and will bother me a few times. However it's worse if I shut him out as he then scratches at the door etc

Bichon on the bed!

Nope. DDog sleeps downstairs in his bed (no crates here). He isn’t allowed upstairs or on the furniture. There is no stairgate. He’s just known since a puppy that upstairs is for humans only.

Small Cat sleeps on the bed - usually starts off sleeping exactly where my hand can reach so that I can stroke her, she purrs and we both go to sleep together, which is lovely. She then buggers off in the early hours, and comes back again and tries to sleep in a much less convenient position. Such as up against my back when she's been out in the rain. Other issues include the puking under the bed thing and the small live mouse in the bedroom thing. Bigger Cat (now ousted from the bedroom by Small Cat) once dropped a live mouse actually on the bed in the early hours. And I don't want to remember the frog years...

Our Lurcher sleeps on one of the beds, some night he’ll sleep on all of the beds….sometimes, if it’s cold, he sleeps IN the bed (as in under the duvet 🤣) he does disturb us so when i’m extra tired I shut him out and he can poke his bony back in to one of the kids instead.

To be honest it feels more like I sleep in the dogs bed - he’s started laying horizontally across

Our 4 dogs sleep on our bed and always have done. Never inside the bed but on top of the duvet. Nothing as comforting as holding one of their paws when I go off to sleep. Did have to upgrade to a super king bed though.