To ask if your pet sleeps on your bed?

I’m afraid I voted YABU because it’s not your bed anymore, much like you no longer own your home or the food in it - it all belongs to the cat now and you agreed to these terms when you got the cat…

In reality, I’ve found nothing that diverts cats away from where they want to sit/sleep - not even tinfoil.

Our cats are shut in the kitchen at night. They know the score, and take themselves off to kitchen-bed if we’re a bit late.

Cat 1 has past form of falling on my face in the night, claws out (after walking along our headboard and falling off). Also likes to leap all over us in the night, then cry to be let out the window.

If it was just Cat 2 then I’d let him in as he just wants to cuddle up.

Our beloved shihtzu sleeps and has always slept with me and DH. Except when kids were babies and co slept (during which months she fucked off downstairs for 6 months each time
because she wanted uninterrupted sleep the clever thing).

DH and I wouldn't cope very well with losing her, and sometimes as she is nearing 11, we think about how grateful we are to have her curled up in our bed each night - long may she live ❤️

Yea one dog sleeps above my head and the other sleeps In The curl of my legs until she gets warm and flakes out by my legs on top of the duvet. They sleep through no drama but the leg dog often decides it’s time to start the day earlier than I’d like. 🙄

How do you keep a cat off of the furniture? Asking for a friend 😂

My cat sleeps in my bed, under the duvet. He just got in on the night I adopted him, and I couldn't bring myself to turn him out, so there he stayed. 14 years later, he's a very old man and he wakes up every 3 hours wanting food and crying at me, and my sleep is awful, but he's a very old man (nearly 19) and I can't bear to not pander to him. It can't be for much longer. I always say that my next cat will sleep downstairs, but I don't think that will happen. If it's cold, he sleeps curled up in against my belly, but often he spoons up against me as a little spoon with my arm round him and his paws round my hand.

My best ever sleeping companion was my mum's Jack Russell. She died last June, but for about 10 years or so, she adored me and refused to leave my side whenever I visited (usually every few months, where I stayed a week or so) and instead of her usual sleeping downstairs in her own bed, she just automatically came up with me and slept under the duvet. She always started the night under the duvet at my feet, but by morning she'd be lying with her head on the pillow gazing at me, with her paws on my chest.

Like this basically, little spoon
He burrows under the duvet and gets cross if I lift it up and let the warm air out

this exactly….I would struggle to sleep without my dog

Aside from rare occasions, which always ended in annoyance, we never did until recently. Our oldest dog started seeming to find time in the crate more difficult after going blind. It was probably just a matter of waiting for her to adjust, but we felt bad leaving her alone, so decided to give it another try. Now the elder one stays all night, but the younger comes and goes, depending on his mood. They do wake us from time to time, but it's mostly fine.

No , my dog doesn’t sleep in my bed.
she is too big for that . 🐕

Sometimes she lies down next to the bed on the floor.

Dog and cat sleep on the bed. Cat wakes up about 3am so I wear earplugs after that as she sometimes meows at me for attention.

My dogs don’t go on the furniture at all as they are 60-70kg and would have it ruined very quickly.

The cat sometimes does but he often wakes me up in the middle of the night and gets evicted!

*current.

Dog sleeps in with me. Much cleaner than my ex and at least I know where she has been!

All of my cats have done. The last incumbent loved waking me up because she wanted a cuddle. It was incredibly annoying. But she was adorable. I miss her doing it now. Cutest cat is more considerate!

When I had multiple dogs, no. Now I have just one dog, yes. She sleeps at the foot of the bed and I sleep better knowing she's there.

2 cats and if they want to sleep on any of the beds, then they do. If you try to shut them out one cries and the other tries to pull up the carpets to get into the room. It's easier to just leave all the doors ajar and let them decide where they want to sleep / roam at night.

The "crier" hardly goes into the bedrooms at all and hasn't slept on any beds for years but doesn’t like closed doors and cries for 10 minutes every single night when the last person goes up to bed. The other cat sleeps on my bed every other night? I usually wake as he's on my legs and I can't move!!

How do yo7 stop them getting on any furniture? Is someone there to stop them 24/7? Do you sleep in shifts? I don’t think cats and their letter are necessarily more ‘germy’ than dogs and pavements, incidentally.

Our 3 cats slept on the bed like lead weights, snoring gently! My DH used to say it was like being stapled to the mattress.

Yep, in bed under the duvet, wedged against me all night

I used a crate with my dog for a year or so as she was a rescue and was already happy in one.
Then she broke her leg, and was on vet orders to stay in it as much as possible. She was still young and energetic, so keeping her still was a nightmare. Her crate certainly had a place then.

I lasted one night of the puppy in a crate before buckling and bringing him into the bed and he's been there ever since. I love it. Even when the little sod wakes me up because he thinks 5am is a perfectly reasonable time to get up.

I love the warmth of him, and how, if he's awake and I'm refusing to budge, he rests his soft chin across my face and neck - I swear I could stay like that for the rest of my life. I was away for a conference in January and I woke up every hour and a half missing his presence and dreaming of him 🙄(he was absolutely fine, didn't even miss me, the git).

Yep and crates are barbaric. Anyone who uses a (locked) crate is not a dog person at all and has no empathy.

The cat sleeps on the kitchen sofa as he makes a racket when he's with us. The dog sleeps in his basket on my side of the bed. He used to jump on the bed when he was younger and never disturbed us.

Dog is in with us, partly because I love his stupid head and partly because he's a tit and will steal stuff from the bin otherwise. The bedroom is the only door in the house he can't open.

He sometimes sleeps on the floor for a while to cool down and then jumps back up onto the bed and stares at my closed eyes until I sense his presence and lift the quilt. He's a lovely boy though and I wouldn't swap him.