Ty loves his crate and sleeps in there at night which is good as he snores lots lol. Cassie on the other hand is a pain she use to sleep in a crate but after having cruciate surgery started to sleep downstairs and as she improved on the sofa up until 3 ish months ago when she started crying or comeing upstairs and crying and she looked completely stressed out no idea y so she was allowed in our room but again would only settle if on the bed . After a few weeks of this my other half had had enough of her leg twitching and licking and since then I have slept with her downstairs on a mattress it's been a nightmare but I have no idea how to reverse the damage

I've always allowed my dogs to make up their own minds about whether they sleep on my bed or not. Some have and some haven't.

As puppies I start them off by them sleeping in my bedroom next to my bed. Chloe my Tibbie was only 6 weeks old and very tiny when I brought her home and I made her a bed in a cardboard box. Even at that age she had a mind of her own and in less than a week she'd decided her rightful place was snuggled up to me in my bed. A month after having Chloe I brought 9 week old M'boi my first Pei home. She slept by my bed until one night she discovered she could jump up on my bed, and from then on she always slept on the bottom right corner.

Georgina, my 2nd Pei, to my surprise prefers to sleep on her mattress on the floor next to the bed. She might sometimes climb on the bed when I first go to bed it'll only be for a few minutes and she'll jump off and sprawl out on her mattress. My new little man who'll be arriving in 3 weeks time has already been crate trained by his breeder so he'll not be joining me in bed, but I will put his crate in my room.

All my dogs have always slept on our bed. Hubby used to say that they were the best birth control he knew, now he is glad of the rest

Pepsi is by far the smallest and yet I swear she takes up the most room

As Edith Wharton said:

"My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet."

I have my bed against the wall and marly has a blanket on my bed near my pillow, he starts of there sprawled out and depending on where he is when we wake up at stupid aclock I know how cold it got,
If he's snuggled against me with his head on my shoulder it was cold.
If he stays put it was average sort of temp
And if he's down the bottom on his back in the starfish position it got hot

Well back in the day when we had only cats this was a non-issue however...now our bed is too small. Hubby is a big guy and the dogs combined are a bit over a hundred pounds. Compromise is Sophie's bed on the floor next to me and Callie's on my daughter's bed.

Then sometime around dawn Sophie comes up to lay on my feet and Callie comes up to lay between us. Poor guy whines like a baby to be lifted up, but that's okay, thinking of adding those steps to the bed.

Oh, and P.S.

My "Get down" montage



Get off my brother and get down



Get down



DOWN!! Get down!!



Less UPPY, more DOWNY!!



So yeah I hate the dogs on my bed, but they get on there anyway...

Now I don't have to imagine them

Myra, those photos are just soo precious!

Thank you, first time I've laughed in days