To have the dog in the bed with us?

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I bathed her this morning for the first time in well over a year as she rolled in poop. This was the result… she sleeps under the duvet with us every night.. how am I not ill? 🥴

Children are humans.

Dirty by your standards maybe - but they do clean and groom themselves.

It's not the dirt, it's the hair that gets to me. My ex's Jack Russell shed so much it would turn the duvet white, it made me boak. How it wasn't bald I'll never understand. My own dogs drove me nuts with their fidgeting and licking and general cocking about so were 'given their own space' for our mutual sanity. Plenty of cuddles in the morning though!

I don’t share my bed with children either. Puts on hard hat and runs from the co sleeping brigade 🤣

This! Gross

They still fucking stink though.
And adults can and do too.
Anything alive stinks.

My mastiff can't get upstairs bless him, my collie x husky puppy chooses to sleep with him on the sofa. My recent rescue Dachshund - Sept- was so traumatised at her new situation that I slept with her the first night as she was heartbroken, crying and wandering around. She now curls up in the crook of my knees and sleeps there every night. DH keeps making noises about her sleeping with the others but I've told him he can if he likes 🤣

What in the fresh hell am I reading? I’m (clearly) not a dog person, but I really had no idea that this many people slept with their dogs, nor did I know how rarely people wash their dogs, never mind finding out both of those things often happen at once!

But if I can't smell it and it's my house, then why should I care anyway? (unicorse voice) Doesn't seem to stop people coming round though! Maybe I need more dogs... 🤔

How do you keep cats from coming upstairs?

That’s why we make our children bathe…

I feel the same about my cat hating mil. She still comes in. I’m upto 5 cats ffs. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@Wellingtonspie Surely the next one will do the trick!

Everyone in my team at work has at least one dog with the exception of one do has a cat. I’ve never considered any of them smell of dog. Mine house does smell on wet days but I’ll take that over being a house without a dog.

People are all over the place on this. Personally our lab is allowed to lay on one of his designated blankets on top of the duvet while we read (same in the DC’s rooms) but I would never want a dog on the sheets or on my pillows. But then I also shower at night because I don’t like getting into my own sheets unwashed.

But I absolutely don’t understand why your dog hasn’t been bathed in a year. That just seems like neglect to me as a dog owner.

A door. 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️

no seriously. Our whole downstairs is open plan apart from entrance hall and stair well. So we just close the door.

One of my dogs can open doors, other can't so waits for the other to open the door.

Big dog family here. Have had up to six at once. Currently on four….

no dogs on beds. On the sofa, fine. Anywhere they like downstairs, but not on the bed. Not really for dirt but because I do like some non invaded space!!

and like the PP, I don’t bed share with the kids either except in extremis!

it’s not being anti dog to draw the line at having them in or on your bed. They don’t lead traumatic lives because they sleep on a variety of armchairs, dog beds and sofas.

I thought cat 5 would do that after much tutting at cat four. But no she just goes another one, don’t you have enough.

Like nobody invites you in. 🤣

It's not neglectful to not bath dogs. They don't need to be bathed regularly. It's not good for their skin and the oils in their fur. Ours is bathed if she rolls in something. Otherwise she gets her paws and legs hosed down after a muddy walk.

www.bluecross.org.uk/advice/dog/wellbeing-and-care/how-often-should-you-wash-your-dog

She absolutely hates taking a bath and She has very short hair.

Oh, I see.

My dog sleeps on a blanket on the bed which is constantly washed and roated with another one. However, every now and then she scoots up to the pillows, scrapes the duvet and crawls underneath.

My old dog did the same but it's better with this dog because she's half the size!

My cat sleeps in the bed
He climbs under the duvet, goes "OOF" and wedges himself against me

I don't hate dogs, I just grew up with working dogs. I dislike the way people confuse animals with humans. Yes dogs bring us great joy and companionship, but they are not humans.
To me, dirt is dirt. Whether on a human or a dog. Lets just be logical about this, dirt on a dog is still dirt. That doesn't make me a dog hater...just someone who thinks sleeping in a dirty bed is gross.
I don't climb into bed after a long, sweaty and muddy workout without having a shower. Why is it different with a dog?