To not change the bed sheets immediately…

[DoreensEatingHerSoreen]

... because they have a small amount of dried blood on them as my dog is in season.

My partner was furious when he realised that my Shih Tzu had left a small amount of period blood on our bedsheets. (Two dried spots, one the size of a 50p, one the size of a 20p). I was already in bed, tired having retuned from a week working away, and in the first few weeks of pregnancy.

Parter demanded that the sheets should be changed immediately, I said it would be fine til the morning, but if he wanted them changing that badly he should do it himself.

For context the dog is mine, I've had her since before we met and moved in together.

Not sure if I've set up voting or not but ...

YANBU - it's a small amount of dried blood, the sheets can be changed later or he can do it himself

YABU - that's gross, it's your dog, you should change the sheets immediately

I would not be cleaning up after a dog that didnt belong to me either.

I’d have them off the bed with some stain remover on sharpish. I’d probably ask him to help me remake the bed, especially in early pregnancy. You’re going to need to get used to helping each other with random and spontaneous household chores when you have a newborn, get used to it now.

I’m sorry that’s really gross, letting your dog sleep on your bed and leaving sheets with dog blood on them..

Thats grim. I wouldnt lay in my own menstrual blood let alone my dogs

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I must be on the gross side as I wouldn't mind not changing immediately.

I reckon most posters on here have missed the bit where OP was away and it happened on her partners watch!!

Would there be all this fuss if it was a couple of drops of human blood? Or if it was non-me still blood? Or is it because we’re talking about a dog here? AND periods?

The amount of blood is so small. I really wouldn’t bother just for that especially if already in bed and exhausted. Different story if she’d shat on them or pissed on the bed, in the same was as I’d change the sheets if a human did the same.

Your partner is clearly going to have a LOT of washing to do if he intends to change the sheets each time some bodily fluids get on them. He better get practicing eh?

His fury does not bode well for the future.

Is having a child with this person really a good idea?

I meant "their fury", not his.

Omg disgusting. YADBU!!
It doesn't matter who changed the bed. Nobody should be sleeping in a bed with blood stained sheets! I know early pregnancy is tiring , but this is so unhygienic.

Would there be all this fuss if it was a couple of drops of human blood? Or if it was non-me still blood? Or is it because we’re talking about a dog here? AND periods?

But it's not human blood and it's not period blood. It's discharge from a dog's vagina. If a male dog ejaculated on your sheets, would you sleep on it?

Just because people don't mind their own or partner's bodily fluids doesn't mean they should be ok with animal messes.

Dogs don’t have periods as such, it’s a bloody discharge from the dogs vagina. I also don’t think she said he wanted to change the sheets every time body fluids got on them.

it’s ok you’re ok with it, but most of us aren’t, and that’s ok too

It's bad enough having the dog sleeping in your bed but if any bodily fluids leak out of her while on the bed personally i think the sheets need changing.

I really don't understand people comparing an animal to a baby. I have children and dogs and really don't look at them the same but I supposed we all see things differently 🙈

Agreed. Don't get why people have dogs on human beds. Our dog sleeps on his own bed in kitchen, nowhere else. I couldn't be bothered to clean up all the dog hair and dirt etc everywhere else in the house. Besides there are ticks, fleas, worms etc. Dogs are not clean enough. His bed gets gross and needs cleaning regularly.

Urgh.

I think its ni more gross than having a do in the same bed you sleep in...i think thats rank too.

@BadNomad

if I was as tired as the OP is saying she was, and it was the size she suggested and it wasn’t near my face then I really couldn’t care less. I’m not a massive fan of having pets on the bedding to begin with but if the partner was that bothered then maybe he should have cleaned the sheets himself? Or slept in another room?

All these PPs "grossed out" by a bit of mammalian period blood! Would you all really get up and change the bedsheets or banish yourselves to the spare room/tepee during menstruation in case a drop of period blood gets on your bedsheets?

It's just a period - most female humans have them, with many 'overflowing' at some point in their menstrual years - and so do female dogs.

Whilst I can understand that a male might get a bit squeamish at such things, all these MNers calling 'foul' at a bit of menstrual blood on the sheets is completely inexplicable to me.

No of course if it was from my period i wouldnt change the sheets specially if there were 2 small spots on them. But the OP is talking about a bloody DOG!

Well Daca so you either don't like dogs or don't sleep with yours. Lots of men and women sleep with dogs (and cats) and if you think that's gross than undoubtedly a bit of bitch's period would be gross to you.

For me it's not a problem - my bitch is neutered and I'm post menopausal so no period blood in my bed - just excess hair now.

Sleeping with dogs is like Marmite, you either love it or hate it.

This is absolutely disgusting. Why TF didn't you change them straight away? Also, why should he do it? It's your dog. You sound minging.

@TheHateIsNotGood It is not a period. Dogs do not have periods. Dogs do not shed their uterus lining. It is blood-tinged vaginal discharge.

Okay, okay - so bitches have a vaginal discharge when they're in season - I geddit. Female humans have vaginal discharges, probably moreso than female dogs who only 'discharge' when they're in season, which isn't monthly like humans.

So, if a bloke spunks on the sheets or a woman's vagina discharges some random non-menstrual fluid as well as both flaking off millions of dead skin cells each night onto their bedsheets that's perfectly okay because they're not so easily seen or you slept whilst the bloke pulled one off.

Can't see much difference between that and a little bit of bitch vaginal discharge in the night.

Would you sleep on the sheets a male dog ejaculated on?

I don't get why you and others are saying "Yeah but humans do it". So what? It's not yours, it's not your partners, it's not your children, it's not human. It's an animal leaking on your bedsheets.