Does your doodle sleep in bed with you?

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Our Murphy has always slept in our bed, but since the get-go he made his place at the foot of the bed and will not come up by us or stay up by the pillows no matter how many times I move him up to me. He's so soft and cuddly and I like petting him as I fall asleep. Anyone else's doodle just refuse to sleep near them?

[Frannie & Callie]

Callie moves around during the night. I tend to be a restless sleeper, so I see all of them! She usually starts in her bed, then moves to mine. She will generally snuggle up to me when I'm awake, but if I tell her to go lay down she goes to the foot of the bed and curls up. Once I'm asleep, she snuggles back up. She's pretty darn cute!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

That would be cute. I really was hoping Murphy would get the hint. Instead of telling him to go lay down, I ask him to come up to the head of the bed. We'll get maybe 5 min, and then he;s outta there! Not a cuddler at all.

[Frannie & Callie]

What if the room was really cold? Callie is less of a snuggler if it's hot (I discovered that this summer...my bedroom tends to be hot all summer long). About two weeks ago my heat broke and it was freezing in my room....Callie pretty much slept on me like a blanket the whole night.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

My last dog wouldn't even sleep in the same room! She would come upstairs to make sure I was really going to bed and not trying to escape, and then she would go downstairs to "her room" AKA the living room. My vet said that was a sign of a dominant dog, and he was 100% right in that case.
Jack lies on my my bed while I'm getting ready for bed, and then when I get in, he gets out. He sleeps on the floor next to my side of the bed. I don't know why, I always ask him to come back up and he refuses. I think it's so he can be secure that he'll know if I get out of bed even if he's sound asleep, because I'll probably step on him. He has his own bed on the floor at the foot of mine, but rarely uses it.
At some point in the early a.m. hours, he usually ends up back on my bed. Crazy doodle.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Calla is still in a crate in my room. But Luca spends most of the night on my bed. He'll often be on the the floor or his bed until he knows I'm really going to bed and won't annoy him with the newspaper or something. Then he'll hop on the bed and either uses a pillow or moves to the foot of the bed. Sometimes he''ll go downstairs for a while but he usually comes back. After the first trip out he'll usually go to his bed as if he realizes it's Calla's turn to get petted and snuggle.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Guinness sleeps in bed with me and we watch TV together....he's very, very, cuddly. Then when DH comes up to bed (usually late), he's banned until morning. His bed is on the floor right next to where I sleep, and he pretty much stays there all night. At 7:00 AM (precisely) he jumps up on the side of the bed and laps...first me, then DH until we get up and take him out. He knows the ritual.

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

Our Gracie Doodle is hit or miss sleeping all night with us. Our bed is her throne. The bedroom is in the front of the house and our house is at the top of the hill. Gracie sits on our bed and watches the entire neighborhood. She knows "the girls" (her two best friends Sable and Genie) car when it comes and goes and knows our cars. If "the girls" come outside she has to run through the house and tell me so she can go play. She also does a lot of sleeping on our bed during the day when we are not at home. She also goes there in the evening. When we get into bed she leaves my pillow and goes to the foot or completely leaves. We beg and bribe her every night to stay with us. I can pull her up and wrap my arms around her and fall asleep that way but she gets up and moves later. She goes to the living room or out in the hall and sleeps on the floor (by choice) and then comes back to us about 5 AM and jumps up on the foot of the bed. We took the crate away when she was 7 months old because we wanted to sleep with her every night. She slept with us for about a year and now blows us off all the time. I can't figure out why she would pick a hard floor over our soft cozy bed!!!!! Though Gracie does run on "hot" all the time and maybe the down comforter and our bodies are too much for her to handle!!!!

[Camilla and Darwin]

Darwin sleeps in a crate but we do let him come on the bed in the morning to cuddle. He won't stay put though. He gets up and shifts every three seconds or so. He does the same thing when he is on the couch with us. He'll come cuddle, but then get tired and jump down. Over and over again. Silly dog!

[Debra Ference-Luongo]

Mostly, when we go to bed, we put Edgar in his crate. Occasionally we do let him stay out, hoping he'll sleep with us during the night. He lies on the foot of the bed for a short while but then hops off the bed to sleep in the floor right next to the bed. He comes back up in the morning ready for a morning snuggle. I think that he just gets too hot up with us (and the cats!) and also wants more space than he gets when he's on the bed with us.

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

I am so glad to hear others feel the same way about sleeping with their doodles. I was beginning to think that I have gone over to the 'dark side". We have closed the bedroom door since he was a puppy, so he wouldn't just wander around at night and now we do it so he'll stay in the room with us at least. Otherwise he's down the hall, in the bathroom, on the floor just outside our door and then just pops into bed to visit for a few hours and then off again.
He does stay in the bed with us all night if the door is closed, so I guess I should feel honored. And he will stay in bed until we get up whether it's 5 am or 8 am.

Seems many of us like the idea of them sleeping right next to us and staying there. We really are hopelessly in love with these furry babies aren't we?

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Ned was crated at night for the first year, and when we began leaving the crate door open he refused to even be near the it. He began to sleep on the dog bed in our room, on the foot of our bed, on the floor, moving several times during the night. I left the crate sitting trying to decide what to do with it, and Ned began napping or sleeping in it again! If he isn't already on the bed he jumps there in the early morning for a cuddle however if he thinks that we are still sleeping, he will lay down on the bed until he hears us talk. Our Springer sleeps on the foot of the bed (where my feet might like to be. This is his spot and he rarely yields it to Ned. Our lab mix sleeps on the dog bed if our door is shut, but he sneaks downstairs to the couch if it is open (leaving the dog bed for Ned). It seems complicated but somehow they all work it out so that we are rarely without a dog on the bed while we sleep.

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

This is how I picture my doodle, all snuggly and cozy in bed with me.