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Do you allow dogs on your furniture

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Boujisboo · 10/09/2022 22:16

And if not why not??

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Isausernameavailable · 10/09/2022 23:23

Would not allow in the house, never mind the furniture. Can't abide the smell of dog.

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 10/09/2022 23:24

First one is his growling as I dared to move on his sofa!

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yikesanotherbooboo · 10/09/2022 23:27

Yes at home where the sofa is 15 or 20 years in and worn by 3 DC and Onto third dog now.
No to beds or, indeed , going upstairs.
We have a holiday cottage where they don't go on the sofas .

comfortablyfrumpy · 10/09/2022 23:31

Yes. More accurately, they allow us 😃

(JRTs though, so not moulty or big).

FancyFucker · 10/09/2022 23:44

I've got a 7stone AmBull lying beside me on my bed, (superking size throw on it which will be whipped off when it's lights out and he's told to go onto his fleece blanket/single duvet/memory foam cot mattress bed. He loves a layered bed does that boy 🤣)
He's also allowed on my sofas

bluetongue · 10/09/2022 23:49

Yes of course but he’s not really a dog, he’s a whippet 😂 (all whippet owners know they’re not like ‘normal’ dogs at all). He cleans and grooms himself like a cat so it’s really just allowing an oversized skinny cat on the furniture.

At this very moment he’s snuggled next to me upside down and under the duvet. It’s ridiculous but what can you do.

wetotter · 10/09/2022 23:55

Yup - DDog has the run of everywhere downstairs, including all sofas and armchairs. She's asleep snuggled next to me on the sofa right now.

She didn't go upstairs as a puppy because she was awfully slow to housetrain, and somehow she stayed a downstairs dog

FrecklesMalone · 11/09/2022 00:00

My favourite part of dog ownership is sofa cuddles. Second favourite is bed cuddles

Strokethefurrywall · 11/09/2022 00:02

Fuck no. Dog gets up on edge of couch for a lay but gets down within a minute.

Dogs never allowed on our beds (or kids beds). Hot country, dogs prefer the cool tile anyway.

Don't care what others do in their own homes, but not allowed in ours.

iamjustwinginglife · 11/09/2022 00:28

Isausernameavailable · 10/09/2022 23:23

Would not allow in the house, never mind the furniture. Can't abide the smell of dog.

Please clarify whether you actually own a dog! I suggest that if you do, you really shouldn't!

iamjustwinginglife · 11/09/2022 00:28

bluetongue · 10/09/2022 23:49

Yes of course but he’s not really a dog, he’s a whippet 😂 (all whippet owners know they’re not like ‘normal’ dogs at all). He cleans and grooms himself like a cat so it’s really just allowing an oversized skinny cat on the furniture.

At this very moment he’s snuggled next to me upside down and under the duvet. It’s ridiculous but what can you do.

Same here-whippets surely don't count!!

Isausernameavailable · 11/09/2022 00:34

Iamjustwinginglife,
No, of course I don't have a dog, I don't like them. They stink.

LeFeu · 11/09/2022 00:34

Sofa yes, bed no!

Cw112 · 11/09/2022 00:44

Yup our dogs favourite place is the sofa but he must wait to be invited up for a cuddle and he's not allowed up while we're eating or drinking or unless guests want him up beside them. Sofa is the only furniture he's allowed on, it's leather so easily wiped down and we use throws to protect it from his wee claws. He doesn't get in the bedrooms at all.

ExecutiveStrategyCoordinator · 11/09/2022 00:47

I don't allow dogs in my house, any more than I would rats.

MadMadMadamMim · 11/09/2022 00:48

No. Definitely not. I don't want dog hair and smell.

But the bastard gets up there anyway, every night after we've gone to bed. You find him every morning, on the sofa, upside down with his paws in the air, reluctantly opening one eye at you and pretending he doesn't understand the problem as he slowly rolls off and back to the floor.

He has a comfortable, luxury, fur lined dog bed in the damn room.

iamjustwinginglife · 11/09/2022 00:55

Isausernameavailable · 11/09/2022 00:34

Iamjustwinginglife,
No, of course I don't have a dog, I don't like them. They stink.

Excellent-that's ok then. Each to their own!

iamjustwinginglife · 11/09/2022 00:57

MadMadMadamMim · 11/09/2022 00:48

No. Definitely not. I don't want dog hair and smell.

But the bastard gets up there anyway, every night after we've gone to bed. You find him every morning, on the sofa, upside down with his paws in the air, reluctantly opening one eye at you and pretending he doesn't understand the problem as he slowly rolls off and back to the floor.

He has a comfortable, luxury, fur lined dog bed in the damn room.

Brilliant!!!! Mine sometimes completely ignores me when I want her to move-full back turned, eyes closed but definitely not asleep-they are shit bags!!! 😂😂

Thatboymum · 11/09/2022 00:59

Yes because he’s a smallish non casting breed (Lhasa Apso) if he casted I wouldn’t because the hair would repulse me all over everything

Antarcticant · 11/09/2022 00:59

Yes. My darling doggie is no longer with us, but he had free access to all the furniture, and my beloved cats still do. They are members of the family with the same rights to enjoy the house as DH and I.

moneybeingwasted · 11/09/2022 01:00

My JRT is tunnelling under duvet now …wouldn’t have it any other way !

mynamesnotMa · 11/09/2022 01:01

Yes but he prefers his bed
She likes to take all the cushions and throw off as it gets on her nerves.

SirenSays · 11/09/2022 01:02

I was a strict no dogs on furniture, no dogs upstairs person. Then we got a foster who would not settle alone and everything changed. My dogs will even sit at the table with me while I'm working.
I did have to teach them to settle on a blanket at the end of the bed. No taking up my space 🤣

Giggorata · 11/09/2022 01:05

Ours are working dogs, generally muddy, if not damp, so no.
They only go into the kitchen or the small sitting room, where they lounge about with us in the evenings, but not on the furniture.

MaydinEssex · 11/09/2022 01:07

Boujisboo · 10/09/2022 22:16

And if not why not??

Absolutely! We have a very sweet little girl Shih Tzu who sits with us on the sofa and sleeps on our bed, she is clean, vaccinated, wormed and flea treated so can't see why she shouldn't be allowed to sit on the sofa or sleep at the bottom of our bed