Sleeping arrangements
How many of you have your pups sleep in your bedroom, and how many sleep somewhere else? And how is it working for your pack? I ask because I imagine our Sheepdogs definitely want to be with us when we retire for the night - and honestly I'd rather have our dog with us too (not in the bed - just in the room). But my fiance has allergies. That's not gonna keep us from getting a dog - his dog allergy number came up pretty low and it everything ELSE in the world that his allergy numbers were high for. Especially cats. Currently he just takes Zyrtec daily. But he feels his allergies could act up more if the dog slept with us. And he's probably right. Currently, Oso is not allowed in the bedroom. Oso respects that boundary, but sleeps right outside the door in the hallway, which is cute, but actually kind of annoying when I have to get up in the middle of night in the dark  I have to be careful not to step on him!I also go to bed earlier than my fiance does and I can tell that Oso is also ready to bed down, but he stays out in the living room since he's not allowed in the bedroom. Thoughts? |
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If he has allergies probably be good not to spend the night with the dog  I on the other hand sleep with both dogs in my bed. The horror! haha They start out cuddling with there heads on me. But then when Langley settles for the night he points his butt at me and he sleeps up top and Laika like the bottom of the bed. BLA~ |
| All the dogs sleep in the bedroom. Ritz (wolf hybrid) sleeps on the floor, Gideon (hound) sleeps in the recliner in the room and Lily (sheepie) sleeps either under the blankets w/us or at the end of the bed. It all depends on how much hair she has. |
| I've been from one extreme to another, outside kenneled, inside crated, in the bedroom. It's been free choice here for years. Some preferred to sleep elsewhere....couch, kitchen floor, bathroom floor, in the bedroom. Mostly the sheepdogs have been in the bedroom......unless it was super hot and they needed tile floors. These last two are bedroom. MO used to sleep on the bed but is very uncomfortable there now so Harry is there. Through the night he and I will move around the house, but he's most often within arm distance. |
We always have the dogs with us in our room. Pooh Bear went to be early with my husband (he gets up early for work) It was dark in there and couldn't see where he was sleeping on the floor. He would scare me when I went to bed since sometimes I would get alittle too close to his head! Angus usually sleeps in our room too, but he doesn't go to bed early with my husband...he hangs out with me until I go to bed. Sometimes he sleeps in the hall, sometimes in our room, sometimes on the living room rug, sometimes on the couch. When we are up for the morning, Angus takes over the bed. He will take a nap in the afternoon with my husband though. Yesterday Angus rolled over and fell out of bed at nap time! Poor thing!  |
| Our boys hang out until the last one up goes to bed which is me unless one of our sons spends the night. They usually start out in the hall bathroom then Dex settles in on the floor next to me and Winston on the tile in the master bathroom. They move during the night, a period with both in the master bath then usually end up with Dex near the front door and Winston on his bed in the den or on the kitchen floor. If we have overnight guests Dex will spend the entire night in the hallway between bedrooms. I don't know if he is guarding evyone or guarding us from our guests. When any of our grandkids spend the nightn he always puts them to bed and stays with them until they fall asleep. |
| Both sleep in the bedroom but not in bed....way to hot and uncomfortable. They can easily sleep outside the bedroom if we close the door, Monty does body check the door a few times to see if it will open and sniffs under the door but will resolve to sleeping outside. No dogs on the furniture for us - less surfaces to clean. The dogs do have a very fancy dog bed to make up for it. The dogs used to sleep in other rooms because my husband has allergies. Then he went to the doctors to find out what he was allergic to, to get stronger allergy pills and after some tests he found out he has asthma. I am so glad he went and got tested as now there is no more suffering for him. He uses an inhaler just twice a day and there is no more sniffing and snorting and wheezing at night  so the dogs are in the bedroom, one big lovey family  |
With Mady, she was crated downstairs the first 3-4 months. Then one night she absolutely refused to go in her crate, she absolutely refused to be downstairs at night with us upstairs. She has been uncrated at night since then. With Gracie, we started with the crate in our bedroom, next to our bed, but she had an awful time, after a couple of weeks, we moved the crate downstairs and she did better. I think it was simply too hot in the crate pressed up next to our bed. But at an even younger age than Mady, she decided it was time for her to sleep upstairs uncrated, and she has. Neither Gracie nor Mady sleep in our beds, it's simply too hot for them, they usually get in bed for cuddles, Mady will stay as long as 45 minutes, Gracie at most 10 minutes, then it's off the bed, Gracie sleeps down the hall in our tiled and (brrrr unheated) shower room, Mady also sleeps there, but she often spends most of the night next to the bed. Virginia sleeps 100% of the time in our room, and usually starts in the bed for 1-2 hours. I'm thinking of shaving Virginia down again in the spring, it will be cooler for her, I know she would like to sleep the whole night in bed, she used to, but with her hair getting longer, it's become too hot. |
Baba wrote: I think I see a human head in there?  |
  yes that is my bed i sleep on the floor  kidding of course |
| Love the pics! Boy can these pups hog the bed! So, it sounds like - though many of you have your dogs with you in the bedroom - many of your dogs are also *comfortable* sleeping elsewhere (unless it's an upstairs/downstairs thing). That's good. I was afraid the sheepies may feel "exiled" if asked to sleep away from their people. I think our ultimate plan involves keeping the dog's bed in the den (one room away from the bedroom - we'll see if he uses it or sleeps in the hall) and keeping the crate in the kitchen/dining room. Though I expect our pup will spend most of his time in the living room with us, I'm not sure if we'll keep a bed in there or not... Does lying on a hard floor affect their joints long term, or is it fine? |
| Mine are off limits from the bedroom - it's just been a house rule since day one. One area that has no dogs, and I can keep stuff that I know no one will get into. I actually have a gate in our bedroom door. The sheepdogs are too hot for beds, but my snugglers would love it. However, then we would be having some in, some out...and there are 6 of them. And it's just a regular double bed, so not that big for extras besides 2 humans. So, only the cat Tipup sleeps with us. With allergies in the picture, it really would be best to have your bedroom as a dog free zone. |
| I tried to get Pooh Bear to lay on a bed and had bought a few different types. He always preferred the floor to lay on inspite of being older and having a hard time getting up. Angus on the other hand, likes his bed, likes our bed, likes the couches, likes the floors. |
| My DH wants Tiggy to sleep in our bedroom. She is crated at night as she had trouble hanging on and would pee on the floor if left free. I think she could hang on now but she likes her crate. We also have a dalmatian who refuses to stay off the bed. As soon as we turn the light of he gets up on the bed. No amount of shouting will stop him. So I think it's more fair for both of them to sleep in the livingroom. The dalmo on his dog bed and Tiggy in her crate. We did try her in our room about 6 months ago at DH's insistence. Tiggy got on the bed for 10 minutes then bailed because it was too hot (she's in full coat). Then she got the wanders during the night and I was worried she needed to pee and the dalmo realised he was missing out and sooked. I've vetoed any further experiments due to the need for sleep. |
| Eevee has gotten good at respecting that she can't sleep in the bed if Jacob is in the bed, but she is allowed if it's just me. Both my dogs sleep pretty much wherever strikes their fancy. Sometimes in the bedroom on the floor, in the hallway, on a chair or the sofa, basically anywhere. Regarding the allergy thing, Jacob was allergic to cats when we first moved in together. Now he lives with three cats and doesn't take allergy medicine. So perhaps exposure to it will help to lessen the allergy over time? Just a thought. His allergies to the cats were never severe, just stuffiness and coughing and whatnot. |
| All our sheepies have seen me saftly in bed,had a quick hug and off they have gone to their "bed" at the end of the bed (on the floor). If a member of the household is not home yet he will sleep at the top of the stairs till they are home,then on to his "upstairs bed".x |
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