so, how many of you have your dog sleep in your room?

[WTFwasthat]

i am thinking this may be the way forward for me and Max as he simply does not settle in his crate at night and i am getting no sleep. i wont put the crate up there? Or should i? what about wee/poo? He is 13 weeks old and we have had him since last Sunday

I have 3 dogs and we usually have 2 in ours.

DS1 has the 3rd in his

Absolutely no way.
Everyone has their own bed in this house,dog and cat included.

I had an old dog who used to sleep on the bed many years ago,but as she got older and grouchier she used to attack dh when he tried to get in bed after his late shift.
Good for me.
Not so good for him.

squeak my nan had a poodle that wouldn't let my grandad into the bed , they ended up in separate rooms .it was really vicious .

Floral she was too elderly to do a lot of harm,bless her.
(so long as you approached her from her good side....)

Not a chance. Our dog is not alowed upstairs in any circumstances. If you start now you may have to share your room with him for the next 15 years!

Apparently this poodle (I don't remember it) was like some kind of mutant crocodile.

All sleep upstairs, but scattered across various rooms, duvets, and special snuggle spots. Usually end up with at least one greyhound on the bed at some point but some variation in which one. In the mornings, we have a cuppa in bed and usually end up with all of them on the bed for a giant family cuddle. Great!

Me - I have an 11 year old toy poodle. We have had him for about 18 months and he has always slept on our bed. I used to have a border collie and she always slept on the bed too, along with the cat! I do envy TheCunnyFunt - when I retire I am going to get a greyhound. I absolutely love them. Infact, in August I ran a charity/fun dog show and a lovely greyhound won it. I was not the judge but would have picked him anyway.

In the end, it is what you prefer to do, I dont think there are any rights and wrongs in this.

Me, my middle aged dog sleeps at foot of bed and creeps up for a cuddle every so often. Pup has just progressed from crate to sofa and foster dog won't sleep at all at night, anywhere

I love my dogs to bits but no way would I have them on my bed or upstairs ever.

For many reasons

1. I am very lazy and do not want all the mud upstairs as well as downstairs to have to clean.

1. I often have dogs that love to eat anything so keeping upstairs dog proof as well as downstairs is beyond me. including dogs emptying litter bins etc in bedrooms and bathrooms.

1. Hate to have to get up in the middle of the night to clean up dog sick off my duvet.

1. Bad enough with my OH snoring let along the dogs and the bark dreaming and twitching.

1. At least I can walk down the stairs before I get covered in dog hairs.

1. It is not good for puppies legs and bones to run up and down the stairs.

1. My DC are incapable of shutting doors or putting things away in their rooms and the dogs may chew, damage things, eat dangerous items as DC's not tidied up.

My dogs have the most comfy safe, dog room downstairs, easy to clean hose down etc

me too, at one point I had to share my double bed with dp, ds2, 2 dogs and a cat, usually had to sleep in a zig zag position to get any room! Thankfully its just one dog and dp now, and the cat occassionally :)

MrsClown he is a lovely boy, Scuttlebutter, also on this thread, has 4, including my boys half brother :o

my plan is to let him share my room but not necessarily my bed! i know it may be difficult once he cosies up in there but he clearly hates the crate or being confined away from me and gets utterly stressed to the point of vomitting. it cannot be good to tough it out like that . i wouldn't choose to bring a dog up there but i do t see any other way really. He will prob decide to sleep on the landing as he gets bigger (fingers crossed) and upstairs is out of bounds at all other times. I am a bit worried about tonight though tbh but we all need some peaceful sleep.

cuebill - upstairs in only for sleeping

WTF I hope it works for you , your post this morning sounded a bit desperate.

My two do not sleep in our room or even go upstairs. A few nights of disturbed sleep while they got used to being downstairs is a lot better than having them I our room. Do you want to have sex with dogs in the room?

well bearing in mind that i am widowed it shouldn't be a problem!

no, dogs are not allowed on sofas or beds in this house. Ddog is currently happily asleep on my feet in front of the fire, she will stay downstairs contentedly when i go to bed in a minute finish mumsnetting
Dogs happier with clear boundaries imo

Yep, same as Cuebill.

Also cannot stand the wuffling, dream yelping and growling, scratching, getting-up-scratching-the-floor-turning-a-few-circles-and-crashing-down-again thing.

oh shit. no idea what to do now!

I'd say if you only want co-sleeping to be temporary then don't do it.

Our dog slept in a kennel in the garden.

Would your dog feel better on the landing? Ours did, we didn't have a crate so she used to get out of her bed, at night in the kitchen and cry outside our bedroom door

We brought her bed just outside our door and she has always slept like a baby there, ever since. It's a compromise as I like my sleep and after co sleeping with Dd, I didn't fancy starting again with a puppy.

Our dog (9 months) has slept in our room since he was about 12 weeks old.
While he was young there were a few accidents in the room but he was generally quite good from a young age at whining at the door if he wanted the toilet. He now has a bed on the floor in our room, but he sometimes sleeps at the foot of our bed. We now keep the bedroom door open so he goes downstairs as and when he likes, but we have a doggy flap with a fully enclosed garden so he can let himself in and out when he needs the toilet.

The one thing I will point out though is that he doesn't malt. This was a deciding factor in getting his breed. I certainly wouldn't have him on the bed and probably not upstairs at all if there would be dog hairs everywhere!

My dog Gordon setter/black lab cross has acess to most of the house at night. The kitchen and living room are off limits. He has a dog bed in the utility room, a fuzzy blanket in a corridor and a sofa/futon in my sewing room. when me and my husband go to bed the dog comes into our room to check up on us and after walking around in circles etc collapses on the floor. He leaves after 10-30 minutes and sleeps on the futon for the rest of the night. If we have anything nest like on the floor, dirty laundry etc he'll stay all night. Sometimes he tries to climb on the bed but we put him back on the floor. I live in a bungalow so there is no easy human/dog divide to the house.