In my bed ? Never, she is too big, about 60 pounds ! I need my space and keep my sheets clean !

Hey...what about my sweet kitty? You need to be PC. LOL

I just wash my bedding a lot. Sheets changed every three days at least. Not a big deal. This girl has given us so much love and comfort. We would do anything to keep her close and safe.

She snores. Another story.

When we had a dog, he slept with us every night! Now, we have three cats and sometimes one or two of them sleep with us at the same time.

I was going to go on and on about pets. We keep them close because we love them and they love us too:

http://center4research.org/healthy-living-prevention/pets-and-health-the-impact-of-companion-animals/

Bev, I woke up in the middle of the night...Miss Kitty owned most of the bed...I was hanging off the side. You have two with you? Must you move to the floor?

On the bed . . . yes. In the bed . . . no.

Well, where else would she sleep? I'm married to a back country packer (I'm his wrangler) & when he takes hunters in & they ask where the dog is he'll point to his sleeping bag and there she is with her nose pointing out.

Like there are many people who want to fight with their dog/cat over the point of sleeping in/on their human-parent's bed. I'd expect a fuzzy assault launched at midnight/2am in the bed territory, and will forever after be known as the beginning of the sleeping arrangements war.

Dog Bed options for a good nights rest for pet owners: Enchanted Home Pet.

i keep finding catalogs open to larger beds.

You'd think that JoT would just come out and say that he would like a bigger bed! ;)

oh he does jen, but i can rationalize costs with him. lol

Sometimes it's hard to resist, but in the summer it's just too hot out here in AZ!

not having any of that gardo's everything huh?

No way. Despite that my dog is a part of my family I won't let him sleep in my bed due to hygiene reasons. My dog is a german shepherd and it's quite big. Just imagine something as big as a horse in your bed. I suggest checking this article and buying one of the memory foam beds for your four-legged friend. Most of them are also considered as indestructible which is great for big breeds.

I know this is a very old post, but it popped up and brought back memories. Our dogs (many, over the decades) always slept on our queen size bed with us...and when we had two dogs, they both did. My husband wouldn’t have it any other way. He had a tough childhood and dogs brought him a lot of comfort. It was very “cozy”. One of our dogs would even crawl under the covers with us during thunder storms. Most averaged about 45 lbs. They are all gone now, we miss them.

I know this is old post as well but only if the animal is no more than 10lbs and doesn’t move at all and disturb my much needed sleep! When I met my now husband he had 5 big dogs, and 3 slept with him. He had to make a choice between them or me and guess who he picked ? Smart guy..

Not while we’re sleeping, but once we leave.....

Hahahaha oh yeah ours would do the same . But nothing worse then getting in a warm bed and little stinky . We live in FL.. I started closing bedroom door when we’d leave ..

@Clt3 - LOL! I like how he’s on your pillow and everything! Haha haha

Funny, she only gets on my husband’s pillow and never after I’ve made the bed, ha-ha!

When I had 2 Great Danes and a Rottweiler they all slept with me. King size bed is the answer.

Belahn

You must be single !! A king size bed is not that big. That’s literally the same as 4 adults in the bed.. Noway!

our cats do whatever the hell they want. When we get a dog, he will be welcome too

I have 3 cats and 1 will sleep at the corner of bed without moving around disturbing my sleep . The other 2 locked out because they choose to annoy me during the night . Animals in my king size bed are allowed only if they take up a very small space, don’t move and don’t have any odor!! My rules ..

It depends. Our last dog was an 85 lb Rottweiler. We rescued him an an 8 year old. He did not sleep in the bed with us because A) He was too big and B) He was too arthritic to jump into the bed. He had his own memory foam bed on the floor next to our bed. We also have three indoor cats. The cats all sleep in the bed with us.

I bathe the dog (while wearing a leotard because that's the closest thing I have to a swimsuit and being naked with your dog is something I find...weird...to be doing. :P) but she's super wiggly so I have to get all the way in the tub with her. Hence, the leotard wearing. She might not wear underwear but all the humans in the house *do*, so I'm not particularly worried about the dog not also doing so. In fact, I'd be worried if she *did*. :P The mister wears pj pants and for myself, it's generally some combination of shorts and a short sleeved tshirt or pants and a long sleeved one. I hear that changing the sheets and washing the dirty ones on a frequent basis is a good sanitary measure. ;) My dog is old and uses a step stool to get on the bed, she's slept in bed with me/us since I brought her home from the county animal control shelter at 4 months old and there's no good reason to make her stop now (nor prevent any future dog from doing the same thing) in my opinion. People's viewpoints are allowed to vary, after all.

Yes! Although, I grew up with dogs and typically had one of them sleep on the bed with me as a kid, so it felt like common knowledge as an adult. That said, I can definitely see why someone might not want that— my pup is a 60lb chow mix and she has no qualms about taking up as much room as she can on the bed lol. My partner doesn’t mind either, but If she did, I wouldn’t have an issue making the dog stay off the bed.

I feel that it’s also important to note that I bathe/brush my dog regularly to keep shedding down as much as possible. For a dog, she’s very clean/not smelly, and since I don’t have a yard, I can pretty much be certain that she hasn’t stepped in anything suspect while taking her out.

Plus, free foot warmer!

One funny note is that when either my partner or I get up in the morning for work, she’ll (without fail) get up from the end of the bed and make her way to where I/her once were. Head on the pillow and everything. There’s definitely been an occasion or two in which I rolled over and expected my partner there, and got a furry surprise.

Every night… he comes on the bed when im sleeping, he has 4 doggy beds and uses none of them! haha

On the bed, not in the bed

Umm it’s his bed and I’m allowed to sleep in it

After losing our beloved, incredibly well trained 14 yr old Maltese terrier mix (adopted from my sister in law who had passed away), I swore i would never get another dog yet within weeks we got a pup. We worked so hard having Charlie sleep in the kennel at night in our room and after a month of him either crying all night or wanting to go outside every few hours we had enough of being sleep deprived - my husband decided to put him on our bed and that was the end of his crying. I was never in favor of a dog on my bed but 8 hours of sound sleep won out. Charlie starts at the end of the bed and works his way up during the night and like others, he shares ‘his’ bed with us