Do you allow your pets to sleep in your bed with you?

Linda

Linda

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Central California foothills
I've never liked the idea of sleeping with pets and didn't do it as a child and never dreamed I would as an adult. Also all the alternative/natural health care people I've seen always said that's a good way to get parasites from your pets etc. So then 2 years ago little Seth came into our life and everything changed! And then after our son passed we inherited his little dog Minnie Mouse. So now we have these 2 little mutts hogging up the bed at night but I couldn't imagine life without them.
 

I never thought I’d want a pet sleeping on my bed, but then I got a cat. She usually sleeps someplace in the living room and when I try to coax her into sleeping on my bed she resists. A handful of times over 5 yrs she has slept at the foot of my bed, but usually jumps off sometime before morning.
 
My cat Loki has been sleeping with me near or on my pillow since he was a kitten. Now that we have the room air conditioner on for the summer months, he seems to favor his spots in other rooms...but is welcome and will likely return when we retire the AC for the winter. He sleeps with us also when we go camping in our camper.

My dog always had a dedicated spot at the foot of the bed on my side (king sized bed), but he's older now and suffering with some health issues including arthritis, so he no longer joins us, but sleeps on the carpeted floor at the foot of the bed. Our last girl dog had severe epilepsy, among other health problems, and she slept between our pillows. That was good for us, as when she had seizures in the middle of the night, we were well aware and could assist her.

We never had any kind of flea issues where I live, and that's all I could think of that would mandate me to take care of the problem before inviting the pet onto the furniture. My pets have always had full access to the home, as they are part of the family and no less. I never had pets other than fish, etc. as a child, so now I welcome them everywhere I go as my furkids.
 

When I was a kid, our family would go visit my dad's sister and husband and they had three kids and pets. When the visit went on into the evening, we kids would get put to bed altogether to sleep until it was time to go and as my aunt was less than fastidious, the bed as I recall, always seemed to smell funky and like pee. Not sure if it was the kids or the pets to blame for all of that, but ever since, I've never wanted my pets in my bed. They have their bed, I have mine.
 
Our 3 cats are banned from the bedroom, due to my allergy-related asthma. Our 2 small dogs stay in crates in the bedroom, the crates are their private little dens, and they do well overnight.
 
I have one dog that sleeps in our bed.. three dogs that sleep at the foot of our bed.. and 5 cats that sleep in the rest of the house.. We don't allow the cats in our room as they have a propensity for walking on my head around 3am every night.. and rattling the window blinds.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Allow? What "allow"? My cat allows me to sleep in my bed.
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Exactly. I don't want to go to sleep if the cats aren't on the bed with me. My cats over the years have been pretty good with letting me sleep. I can't complain.

It's just my opinion but my pets belong on the bed with me. I'm more concerned about catching something from people.
 
SeaBreeze said:
.... Now that we have the room air conditioner on for the summer months, he seems to favor his spots in other rooms....
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SB, my cat is like that too, especially now since the AC went out downstairs. Actually it's working out pretty well, because mine prefers to sleep between my legs. She spends 10 minutes pushing the covers down to make just the right size nest. Makes it very difficult to turn over at night.:eek:
 
Every night there is a race to the bedroom between hubby,myself and PJ,our tubby Manx. She`s 22 pounds and insists on sleeping on my feet,so when we can sneak into the bedroom and leave her behind,we do. She can go find a kid to sleep with. :) My sister and her hubby sleep with 5 dogs-4 Whippets and a Cocker. Queen size bed. Don`t know how they do it....
 
Yep. My dog is so big he takes up half the bed. He never sleeps the night all the way through as he likes to move around in the house. He usually steps on top of me when getting out. :disturbed:
 
Until he died 3 years ago my 15 year old shih tsu always slept in my bed. In summer on top of the covers and in winter under the covers at my feet.....blissfully warm. Often I would wake to find his head on the pillow next to mine.
 
Because she is so big and hairy. She has the run of the rest of the house and she has a nice big pen to play in. My back door opens into her pen and she can come and go as she pleases. She lets me know when she wants to go out.
 
I guess I should be okay with my cat not sleeping on my bed. I've heard of people's pets having a bathroom accident on the bed. :eeew:

Once I gave my cat too many treats and she got sick on my comforter...my fault.
 
My bed is kind of high so I put my dog in the bed with me when I first go to bed. I pet her and she gives me kisses in return, then she sleeps a little and then she jumps out of the bed and goes sleep under it. In the morning when she hears me wake up she jumps as high as she can until she lands in the bed and licks my face to wake me up. She is a small dog, a shih tsu, and a really sweet one. :)
 
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