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? 🥴

What an odd opinion to have!

Does it not ever occur to you that people launder their bedding regularly, shower/bath and wash their clothes?

And you have to be a sad ‘single pringle’ ( who even says that phrase?!) because you lack human company?? You do realise that there are plenty of happy single people that manage to sleep quite well on their own…

With opinions like yours no wonder people prefer to choose their dogs!!

Oh the old dogs = children trope. 🥱

Am in shock.. is this the same website where people with less than two showers a day and who don't change sheets daily are "grim"...I have seen consternation for putting a suitcase on a bed or leaving shoes on in the house but a 40kg shit rolling, arse licking animal is grand snuggled up beside you in bed.

And? My dog hates having his nails trimmed, but they get trimmed anyways (with us making it as not-miserable as possible) because I know he needs it to keep his feet healthy even if his simple dog brain can’t think that far ahead.

You’ve started this thread with a photo showing why your dog needs to be bathed several times per year. Perpetually dirty skin and accumulating dead skin and hair isn’t healthy.

Honestly, no no dogs in my bed. There is room for me, and sometimes my boyfriend my huge golden retriever is too big and hairy and lies diagonally or on my legs like a twat and hogs covers when he’s snuck up and my door wasn’t shut. He has a lovely soft comfy bed. He doesn’t need to sleep with me. Generally he sleeps with the cats. One of them happily snuggles in with him on his bed and I think he likes it, he doesn’t move at least. However I don’t care what other people do, if you want your dog in bed have them in bed.

Have you ever been in a public toilet? Humans are DISGUSTING

Happily single for 14 yrs.

😂😂😂 eee wouldn't life be boring if we were all the same, eh?! I'm off to my nice clean, dog-free bed!

I dunno how he can breathe totally under the duvet but this is where he sleeps
He seems to know when my pain is bad and will press into my stomach which helps it

Haha fair enough.
It’s my opinion though, so I’ll stick with it.
And this thread has only really crystallised my view if I’m honest.

I always assumed it is because they are rubbish at licking themselves 🤣. And also don't generally roll in fresh wet grass as often as my dogs

I’m lucky enough to be allowed to sleep with DH and a massive lump of a Staffy. Said Staffy likes to sleep pressed against my back with his nose in my ear! Or occasionally across my lower legs. I woke up early hours one day and thought I’d lost the use of my legs….,😂

I only have one sleep in the room with us, we have 3 collies and 4 labs all working dogs. The collies never settled in the house, they prefer the heated back porch and the three younger labs prefer the working kitchen in their beds. The labs do join us in the living room in the evening though and our eldest lab comes up to bed with us. He’s 16 and a very special boy as he’s deaf these days, he’s slept in our room since he was a puppy from 4 weeks old as we hand reared him.

The collies are sheepdogs and really do smell, the other 3 labs are gun dogs and I wouldn’t be washing a dog every day especially in the cold, hence they’re not in the bed. I do kiss them all goodnight and tuck them in every night.

No, my dogs most definitely aren't children (and the phrase fur babies makes me heave) it was simply pointing out that lots of things including children are grubby, children being humans doesn't mean they are wonderfully non stinky and sterile, just that you don't have an issue with their dirt as it's people dirt.

I had a friend who had a little boy. She would crawl up in bed with him, and ask why his fingers smelt like bum.
Kids are gross.

I really do find this quite disgusting, sorry. I have dog mad friends but none of them let their dogs share a bed with humans. At a push a couple let them sleep on a dog bed in the same room but they are well-trained and know they aren't allowed on the bed. Even the thought makes me feel a bit grim!

It does not affect you though. Are your dog co-sleeping friends inviting you to sleep with them too? Thought not.
If they did not tell you about it, you would not know.
It is a total non issue.

My dog sleeps on my bed! I put the electric blanket on at 7.30pm then he takes himself up at 9pm. He stays in the exact same spot all night. Then doesn’t come down until he hears his breakfast being loudly plonked on the floor!

Foulness.

You are quite within your right to find it disgusting- but other people don’t and are happy for their dogs to sleep on/In their beds.

I don’t really see how that affects you in any way whatsoever?

OMG but

Sharing a bed with your dog, or any pet, is lovely (one of my cats is on me every night, sometimes both!)..

But not washing your dog for over a year is crazy! I get they don't need a daily shower, or even weekly/monthly.. but surely every few months you think - hmm, might give them a once over!?

Gosh I’m genuinely surprised by the number of people who let their dogs in their bed. Absolutely not! I ADORE my dogs. We go for long muddy walks together, they spend half their lives outside with me and the children and the other half curled up on the floor on our feet or next to the bed. I spend enough time with them to be very familiar with a) their smell b) the amount of hair the produce and c) to know all the awful things they sniff and eat.

Never on the sofa or on the bed. Absolutely not and never.

It was asked as an 'AIBU?' I responded honestly. I find it disgusting. The thought of it turns me. I accept that others disagree. I suppose that's the nature of AIBU!

Why don't you wash your dog? I've got two who get bathed every three weeks minimum and one gets clipped afterwards. Their bedding gets a hot wash every week