Where do your dogs sleep?

[Gorran]

Just interested really. As crates seem so popular these days I wonder if people continue to use them past puppyhood. Or if you've never used one, where the dog sleeps...

When tiny pup slept overnight in her bed shut in the cloakroom (we can't get big crates here in Morocco). Last week we had a heatwave so I reluctantly moved her outside (she has a kennel with squidgy cushion she uses if I go out during the day). It was much earlier than I had planned, she was just six months but she loves it. Barked for a couple of minutes the first night I guess when people went past, now not a murmur....

She isn't allowed upstairs cos thats the cats' domain but during the day she sprawls anywhere and in the evening on the sofa with me.

Of course, a nice temperature helps having a dog who sleeps outside.

In his crate, in the hallway outside our bedroom.

Was close enough for us to hear him at night, and also not up against any walls in case he barked in the daytime.

Also gives still gives the cats free run of the downstairs at night time, so works for us atm.

We used to have a crate in the kitchen. Once he'd settled in properly, we left the crate door open, just shut the kitchen door. When we had the kitchen redone, we retired the crate; instead, we left a space under the worktop in the utility room for the dog to sleep in (lots of comfy cushions!).

As soon as he's let out in the morning he's upstairs and under the duvet for a cuddle though.

Crates downstairs. Big dog had always slept in a crate when we adopted her, and little dog (ha! little...) was a chewer as a pup, so I liked to know where he was at night. Both happily go into them at bedtime, although in an ideal world (mine and theirs) we would all sleep together in a big sunken pit with duvets.

However, I do like to keep one part of the house undoggy. It's worrying how different the first floor of my house smells to the ground floor.

On my bed. Under my bed. In my bed!

Our dog slept in the kitchen until a few days ago when my neighbours were burgled as they slept.

Now she has the run of the house at night ...

My dog is very very noisy if she hears a noise (sounds quite scary and aggressive)- but our downstairs is quite big and it is conceivable that if someone broke into the other end of our house she might not hear.

In his crate, he's nearly 7 months and happily chooses to go in there. We do shut it at night though as he is a terrible chewer, but it's open during the day time and he happily choses to go in there to sleep in the day

Under the douvet, next to my feet.

never used crates, I had my first dogs before they became popular and have never felt the need to change what I usually do. Dogs used to sleep on old sofa in the kitchen but that got really rank after 20 yrs, so I got them proper doggie beds which they tried out immediately and use unless it's really hot - then they sleep on the cool tiles. I've always tried to introduce a puppy when we have an older dog, some of the older dogs have just adopted the pup and slept with it so no night time problems, when a pup hasn't settled I used to sleep on the sofa with it for a few weeks . Upstairs is cat territory and they would not be happy about it being invaded by dogs

JRT - never crated as we got him at 8 months (rescue dog) he starts off in the armchair in DS's room, then moves to our bed or bedroom floor if he is hot. But, when I put the kids to bed in the evening, he goes too and snuggles in DD2's bed or DS's 4 foot high cabin bed....he just jumps up!! Then he comes down and spends most of the evening playing/in the garden/chewing bones and then goes to bed for a second time when I go to bed He also has three downstairs beds (spoilt) which he uses during the day, or when he is home alone.

Currled up in a ball pushed in next to my tummy.

Whippy has a crate in the dining room but it is not unknown for her to be taken upstairs while I am sleeping, in which case she sleeps on my pillow for some unfathomable reason. She knows she will wake me and be moved back to the foot of the bed, so why she does does it is beyond me

Devil Dog has a bed on the landing because he gets agitated if he is locked too far away from us, although he too sneaks into our room in the wee hours, he is sensible enough to stay at the foot of the bed, where he knows he won't be discovered until morning time.

our westie sleeps in his own den in the kitchen altho he seems to sleep better when he is allowed in our bedroom!

Sofa. Or his bed.

In the kitchen, on a rug with a thick layer of cardboard underneath it when he can be persuaded, on the tiles when he can't.

We put the lovely thick (expensive!) comfortable dog bed that we bought because he is elderly and has stiff joints anywhere that we don't want him to sleep . . .

I can add to the 'how to be flamed on MN' (though possibly not by doglovers) - when dd was small, ddog used to sleep next to her cot until she was settled as it was the one thing guaranteed to make her go to sleep happily without complaint.

We agreed before getting our dog she could go anywhere except our bed.
So she sleeps on our bed.

We try to get her off but she suffers from selective deafness at bedtime, apparently, and any attempt to gently push her off are met by the Heaviest Dog In The World.

Even if we sneak into bed without her, the boys will come in and let her in.
I woke up with 12 little feet digging into me the other morning.

(I love it really.)

Between DP and I on top of the blanket but has been known during a cold winter to sneak under and I wake up with toastie warm feet

My two share a big dogbed filled with old blankets in the kitchen.

Our Gsd is 4 and has the run of the upstairs and the downstairs hallway at night, she generally sleeps by the front door or outside the bathroom. The living room and kitchen are shut off to her. She won't jump on beds unless asked to :) which isn't that often to be honest ! The cats on the other hand are shut out in the utility but they have a cat flap there to the outside and more often than not are in at night and gone by morning.

In our barn (working collies), each with their own disused cattle byre marking out their own space. Old dog has his bed and blankets, young pooch has an armchair that she is systematically dismantling and top dog has a sofa. Yep, she has a sofa (and a new one on the way!)

In his basket in the kitchen/family room, next to the Aga. The door is open but he never comes upstairs.

When we go to the caravan he sleeps on my bed as he finds it cold.

The bedroom floor, on our bed (hate this because there is no room for his fat arse, my fat arse and DP fat arse) but then he looks all content and happy and I can't bear to put him down even though he knows he is not to go on the bed!

Never ever crate trained him. Got him from a petshop where he obviously had been mistreated and was very young, swore there and then he would never go back in a cage.

He tends to take himself off mid way through the night to his own bed, or the landing.

Occasionally (more since I've been pg) he will "sneak" up the middle of the bed, under the covers and lay his head on my bump. Unfortunately he gives the game up as if the covers moving up and off us are not enough to wake us his tail thudding at a 100 beats per minute wafting the duvet is definitely enough to wake us!

I have never used a crate. Dog sleeps on the floor outside ds s room -tried to move her but she won't have it. Anyone except me or dd tries to go in ds s room and she makes enough noise to wake the dead.

Lab goes to bed in his basket with duvet in the utility room but has run of downstairs. Never had a crate as got him at 6 months. Usually to be found back on his cushion in the lounge.