Where does your dog sleep?

[Cannedheat1999]

We’re getting a dog soon, and will be setting up her bed in the kitchen-tucked away and nice and calm-like a crate. But wondered how many folks let their dogs sleep
upstairs at night?

Ddog1 - crate in bedroom for a couple of weeks then downstairs in a crate until 2 years when we had the kitchen done. He moved to his bed in our room. At 2.5 I was having an emotional time and ddog snuggled me in bed… so now he’s on our bed and I love it.

ddog 2 - only 16 weeks so in a crate in our room. She’ll be on our bed when we’re confident she won’t destroy my shoes etc. probably about one year I imagine (or if ddog 1 dies - he’s having chemo right now but doing brilliantly).

On the bed - she’s 16 now so have to lift her up but she can jump down on her own

In the living room where she can choose from 3 dog beds, three armchairs and the sofa 🙄

The bed of her choice!! Usually a teenagers bed.

Big old crate in our bedroom. It would be our bed but she’s 28kg and likes to sprawl out!
she will often ask to get in her crate so obviously finds it comfy, cost and reassuring. It does have a memory foam mattress, duvet and blanket tho!

On the sofa downstairs. He’s not allowed upstairs. We leave a light on for him at night and tv on if we’re out.

On the sofa, it's 'her' sofa most of the time, with a throw over it, removed on the rare occasions we have visitors. She will sleep in the hallway if its warm or she gets too warm as it's a colder floor and she has a thick double coat. She's too big for our beds.

I got my dog when she was 8 weeks old. She slept in a crate in my room, so that I could wake when she woke and take her out to the toilet. After about a week she started more or less sleeping through the night. Eventually I got rid of the crate, and gave her a dog bed to sleep in, when she could be trusted not to wee in my bedroom during the night- she was about six months old. When she was 9 months old she joined our other much older dog in a big shared bed in the living room. She's 15 months old now, still too young to trust with the sofa, which is baracaded off at night. I also take plugs out of any sockets she could reach. Don't get me wrong she's a very good dog but I am realistic in my expectations.

Mine sleeps in the kitchen. We set up a temp bed in the room next to the kitchen for first few weeks until she built up her confidence then the first night we slept upstairs and she was on her own there were no issues!

but everyone will have a preference. I just decided I wasn’t ready to give up being intimate with DP and didn’t fancy the dog watching/ have her wondering why she was being shut out of the room on occasions 🤭🤭

During the day, allegedly under a blanket on the sofa - in actuality she doesn't, or she drapes herself over my laptop/my neck/my arm, whatever causes me the most inconvenience and means I'm more likely to get up and take her out again.

At night she has a bed on the landing outside my door, although by bedtime she's usually settled herself under her daytime blanket on the sofa, so I go to bed without her and she comes up during the night. In the morning she's allowed in with me and snuggles up under the duvet. For about twenty minutes, until we start the whole laptop/neck/arm draping again.

My dog is of the well-known breed Bloody Nuisance (adore her really. Well, usually).

In our utility room in his bed, with the door closed at night. It's like a massive crate in my mind.
Sometimes I'd quite like him in our room, but I think I'd regret it!

Anywhere they want

In her crate in the kitchen. She hops in when we are going to bed and not a peep from her until we get up in the morning. She is a 9 month old mixed breed.

Usually in his bed in a corner of my bedroom, but anywhere he wants to really.

There's a dog bed in our bedroom which she starts the night in under a blanket but halfway through the night she climbs in next to me under the duvet. She's a whippet and they're physically incapable of not snuggling.

When being house trained in a crate downstairs. After being reliable on my bed!

In my fantasy life both dogs sleep together in their dog beds in the kitchen. In my actual life they sleep on my bed and sometimes in it.

Where he wants. I wouldn’t confine him to one room/area.

Officially on his bed in the corner of my room, however, I often wake up to find him sleepily trying to scuttle off my bed, where he's clearly been most of the night 🤣 He's very stealthy and I never feel him jump up. I now have a throw over my duvet for the dog that isn't allowed on the bed!

It doesn’t really matter what everyone else does. It’s what’s right for you.

Do you want the dog upstairs at all? Do you want to deal with the dog potentially disturbing your sleep and putting hair all over your bed? (Not saying that’s wrong, my dog sleeps upstairs on a separate bed 🤣 and my room is covered in her hair)

For the first 3 years she slept in a crate downstairs. It taught her that bed time = go to sleep and got her into a routine. A crate is also a safe space for them to chill out and nap which is important. Plus puppies/young dogs love to chew so it also saves your house!

When she was older, we allowed her upstairs on her own bed in the corner and it’s worked out for us so she’s stayed. but if she had been restless or disturbed our sleep she would have been back down stairs straight away.

Ours sleep in the kitchen. We’re about to move house, and are going to have a dog bed built in underneath the work surface when we replace the kitchen. I love my animals, but I want space in my bed. I can only just cope with my husband!

Anywhere he likes downstairs. He has three different beds in different rooms but generally seems to overnight in his kitchen bed probably because it's the biggest. He's a golden retriever and huge.

Aww! Ours were all springers, until the litter the last one had-they were sprockers and we kept a boy.

Giant breed - anywhere on the kitchen or dining room floor.

She doesn't have a bed. Just sleeps on the floor wherever.