The Nighttime Follies of Fudge and Vern!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Lots of times here on DoodleKisses, I see members ask if they should stop crating their dogs at night. Many of those times, the dog is happy in the crate and it is the human who misses the doggie snuggling at night. Take my word for it, let sleeping dogs lie IN their crates.

 

In the summer, Fudge and Vern get too hot on any bed and prefer to sleep on the cold, hard floor. They might start up here on our bed for a little bit, but usually when my husband comes to bed, they want down and oh, how I wish some nights we could walk out to the foyer and say “crate” and in they would go.  Sure, I could start now, but I don’t have the heart. 

 

The problem is once my husband makes the announcement “last call” Vern usually gets a second wind and likes to include us in the revelry.

So, my husband has two choices every night.

 

1) Try to squeeze his way into bed between these two and hope Vern stays asleep long enough for him to fall into a deep sleep so his wife can handle the nighttime activities.

 

2) Wake Vern and Fudge up and chance experiencing some of this:

 

or this:

or this:

or even this:

 

Since he usually goes with option one, what I wouldn’t give for two dogs that love their crate and long to sleep in there at night…..ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT. Instead, we play musical beds almost every night and this morning I ended up with Vern and Fudge on our bed. Luckily, for me the 100 pound dog chose my side for his resting point and that meant I slept the remainder of the morning in a position that I have not been in since gymnastics camp at age nine. I just regained the feeling in my legs at lunchtime.

 

 

 

 

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Dori, The funny thing is we still have to lift Fudge on and off our bed and most of the time, we hoist Vern up and use a treat to get him to jump down. Can you say spoiled?? Well, it does seem only fair that your DH has to be the one to get her down, when he started the whole thing...LOL!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Thanks, Jane. I think you have a better system in place than we do :)

[Dori & Rua]

First, the last picture makes my entire body hurt.

 

It was actually my DH who got Rua started sleeping in bed with us.  Fortunately there is a huge difference between Fudge & Vern in a bed and Rua (all 17.5lbs of her).  We have a routine each night.  She walks over to the closed bedroom doors and looks back at me, which is signal that it is time to go night-night (about 9 or so).  She trots over to my side of the bed.  Since she can't get up on the bed by herself, I lift her in.  She sleeps at the foot of the bed in the middle or on DH's side, closest to the door (he says that she is protecting me).

 

Some nights, if she gets too hot, she will walk up to DH and give him ear snuffs (usually about 12:30 in the am). I'll wake up to him laughing (I have to admire his jovial spirit at that time of the morning)...he gets up and puts her in her crate and everyone goes back to sleep.  Just to point out...she NEVER does it to me and if he is out of town, she sleeps on the bed all night. 

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

My boys are very jealous. They have to get off the bed when DH is ready to turn in for the night....after every televised sporting event is over. They are not happy about their Doodle Dad taking their spot. Your guys are just too cute.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Karen, I hope you can sleep like a pretzel :)

Lisa, Be careful what you wish for. LOL

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

How I long for the fuzzball in the bed, the only time that happened is when Daisy needed the comforter to replace the fur back in March. I did lift her up when DH was with the granddogs but she only stayed 4 hours and at the end of the bed.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

ROFL, Laurie!

May I offer option #3: Send that 100 lb cutie here for a visit! I have a king-sized bed and JD is not a cuddler!