Do you allow your dog upstairs?

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Just that really! Do you allow your dog upstairs?

Yes, but always under supervision. He is with DH or me 99% of the time during the day. When we are out is has a crate and his bed is in there, he sleeps there too. It's in our kitchen. He is a rescue maltipoo and he is house trained but if desperate will sneak off and pee or poop somewhere. He also might chew stuff so we don't give him the opportunity. He has a routine and he is flourishing with it. In the evenings he can mostly be found lying on my tummy!

Yes, she goes where she likes and at night sleeps on a puffe at the end of the bed. We do clean her up after her walks through.

Yes, he likes to be near people.

Generally the doors are shut to all the rooms (other than the one we're in!) and he chills out on the stairs so he can keep an eye on where everyone is.

At bedtime he has access to our room, the stairs and landing.

Yes and if we leave him alone, the living room door is closed otherwise he would just sit in the window and bark at people so he gets himself upstairs and sleeps on our bed😀

Yes, ours has the run of the house and sleeps on our bed. Don’t tell my mother she’d be mortified 😆

Yep and to my utter embarrassment she sleeps under the duvet and I usually wake up to her on the pillow next to my head, she gets hot in the night.
Tbf I inherited her when my dm died last year and she's old and tiny and as she was my dm's ddog I don't have the heart to make her sleep elsewhere

Yes

Yes, but only if I'm up there too or god knows what he would get up to

Same here

Yes. DH’s office is upstairs and DDog likes to lie in the doorway. At night he sleeps downstairs in his crate though, unless we let him on the bed for a special treat.

Yes, mine has free access to the whole house.

Personally I don't really understand having animals only to confine them to a small area of your home, but each to their own, of course.

Yes. They're part of the family

My dog goes wherever he wants. When we go out and leave him, he makes a beeline for our bed!

It’s not confining them to a small part of your home just to stop them going upstairs to the bedrooms.
Mine still had the living room, kitchen, dining room, study, garden… just not the bedrooms. He was a very happy dog and we loved having him live with us. Just don’t like pets in bedrooms, personally.

Yes, he is allowed everywhere.

Not really. Sometimes he sneaks up but then doesn't know what to do with himself and just sits at the top of the stairs 😂

On Christmas Day he went up to my bed and slept there for most of the day which is very unusual. As a general rule he doesn't go up there.

Yes.

@Twiglets1 like I said it's a personal choice, just not something I would do.

I know lots of people who confine their dogs to one or two rooms of the house which makes no sense to me either lol.

Yep. She goes where I go and sleeps in our bed.

Same

Yes. She loves to snuggle up especially in winter after a haircut.

No. Strictly forbidden. We’ve had a special stair gate built which is wide enough for a cat. When DS leaves it open the oldest Lab runs up and enjoys a bonanza. Chewing socks, stealing snacks from DD’s room and sniffing out used tampons ( a favourite snack). Luckily for us, youngest Lab once got stuck between the bars of the gate (Pooh-style) and now won’t go anywhere near the stairs!

Our dogs are only allowed in the kitchen and snug. Which is perfectly enough space for then. They aren’t allowed upstairs, or in the utility, hallway, playroom, study, drawing room or dining room. One is a keen chewer of toys, books and cushions. The other wags to destruction any items at tail height!

No. The big one doesn't get on with the cats so upstairs is a dog free space where the cats can chill.

Same here! He never tries to follow us upstairs at home or other people’s houses (though isn’t above whining at the bottom
of the stairs if he thinks we have been up there too long!).