It turns my stomach to see dogs on beds in advertisements, films etc...

[duchesse]

And I'm actually a dog owner!

I just can't help thinking about the fur, the dirty paws, the worms, fleas and ticks, the things they lick, the way they lick their genitals and anus, even their disgusting flipping food. Even clean dogs are filthy compared to my bed. There is no way in god's earth that my dogs are ever even coming upstairs, let alone sleeping in/on my bed!

Why are dogs on beds sold as an attractive lifestyle notion?

Reading this thread, one realises how people get sick all the time. Have some kids. Those critters will soon be sent back to the animal kingdom and not treated like babies anymore

Actually DD and I are very healthy and very rarely get sick.

I was at my healthiest when I spent my days covered in animal poo/wee/mucous etc. animals are less harmful than people IMO

People get sick all the time if they have poor immune systems.

Also, because animals predominantly carry animal pathogens, they're not as risky as humans. DH has been watching a 'Great Lectures' series of dvds on human anatomy and physiology in which the eminent doctor stated that human saliva was far more dangerous to other people than dog saliva.

... have some kids, send them to nursery or school and then you get sick!

I have children and dog and cat still sleep on my bed. My dog licks me. My cat rubs his face all over DD2.

I am never sick, nor are the rest of the family. DD2 is 13 and has visited the doctor once in her whole life, for an asthma attack at a year old, before we got pets.

A few animals around, a bit of dirt here and there, sharpens up your immune system no end. I have friends who are no pets dettox the whole house every 5 minutes types and they are constantly ill, especially with stomach bugs. I can't remember our last stomach bug, or even whether the DDs have ever had one.

Dog saliva is quite antiseptic, I believe. It has to be as they eat such foul stuff given a chance!

But they can be so sweet! Like little live teddy bears who actually love you back. Pickle sleeps at the foot of my bed- here she is on my bed after getting wet by trying to follow me into the shower. She is very clean and cuddly.

We bought a sofa for the end of the bed solely to get the ever growing puppy out of our bed. He still creeps in occasionally though, particularly for a thunderstorm. Little dog has always slept at the end of DD's bed and she loves it.

We do this thing called bathing and grooming our dogs, though. On a regular basis. And we live in a country that has Lyme's disease coming out of its ears, and I have had one tick ever, and it wasn't from having my dog in the bed.

I'm with you OP. One of the reasons I don't have a dog is that I wouldn't want it inside at all let alone in my bedroom.

don't have a dog but my little cat is snuggled down between dh and me right now and she's gorgeous.

I don't mind my own dogs. I have to say I grind my teeth when other people's bogy fingered children climb on my furniture more.

oldbagwants your pictures are brilliant. In one of them are your dogs cuddling with a cat? That's amazing.

I would rather share my bed with my cats than quite a few men I know!

OP would hate my house too. It's never struck me as odd to have my dogs in my bed?
I don't see them as any different tbh probably cleaner than DP. If a dog licks his anus surely it means it would be cleaner when he sits on bed not so sure about DP
If your unfortunate enough to get fleas they will end up everywhere no matter where the dog is, they will get on your clothes and make their way up that way
They lose hair obviously but so do we, I think it's good because when you see dog hair it makes you wash the bedding more haha
There's only one downfall to them on the bed and that's there no space!

Sorry but I think your reaction is really over the top.

I don't have dogs and wouldn't be crazy about then sleeping on beds if I did but it just seems really weird and a bit unhealthy to let it get to you that much.

Life's. Too. Short.

oldbag I love your photos! The cat and dog spooning on the bed are wonderful!

Cmotdog sleeps in his crate at night as I prefer not to get a paw up the nose (he's a lurcher). But his greatest delight in the morning is to run up the stairs and fling himself into our bed sideways to join the members of the family not detailed to let him out.

Two of our cats do sleep in our bed, and ds used to have a house rabbit who slept in bed with him.

On Oldbags theme, I used to know a couple (and I knew them through 'goat club' which did have a fairly high proportion of interesting people) who had a muntjac deer who lived in the kitchen. And was litter trained.
Another of the goat club would share his can of coke with the goats, and also ice creams.

YANBU! I dont like having the kids on my bed never mind a dog!

I am reading this on my bed with my toddler and massive greyhound curled up next to me...bliss!

YANBU it's gross. I also shudder when my MIL lets her three (yep 3) small dogs sit on my sofa (eww with their actual arseholes in contact with my cushions) and wipe their furry little beards all over my white living room rug after having a drink. The rug I steamed in the house cleaning rituals undertaken before their arrival - I am an idiot. I really like dogs and animals in general but they are lacking in the personal hygeine department!

It gives me the absolute boke. We were at a lovely country pub but kept being mithered by the owner's dog who assumed we'd think this was just marvellous. I dislike dogs, this is very unpopular.

The dog was sitting up on all the seats with its arse dangling with clinkers. I'm the odd one?

Our house is not particularly clean and the children have been known to curl up in the dogs' beds; but the dogs and the cat are not allowed anywhere upstairs and most definitely not on the beds. The cat can go on the worktops and on the sofa but the dogs definitely not. I know this is all very inconsistent. Everyone has different rules; these are ours.

The idea of a pet on the bed, let alone in the bed under the covers, is just a complete no-no. I never let dogs lick me - yeuch.

Cats on worktops [shock}

When we got our first cat, dh (who had never had a cat, or dog, before) announced firmly 'she's not allowed in the bedroom, I'll shut the door at night'. I pointed out this was a. mean b. destined to fail. He lasted two nights of the cat pawing at the door...

Nothing nicer than curling up to a nice warm cat at night. Although fighting for the pillow is a big of a bugger.

Dogs, on the other hand, are slobbery and far too BIG but I am prepared to believe that dog owners just don't see it. Up to them what they do in the privacy of their own home and all that.

When I left home, my sister got a dog. I was dubious but went home from university and fell in love with the daft, cheeky mutt. He worked out v quickly that I was a soft touch and the one who was likely to wake up first - he used to burst open my bedroom door when he reckoned it was time to get up, and take a flying leap onto my bed. Which got me up PDQ as he was the size of an Alsatian...