Do you allow your doodles on your furniture?

[jenn D]

Just wondering who here allows their doodles on furniture and if you have any rules. My boys love the couches and I have no issue with it except with Jake who uses the recliners as springboards to jump onto his unsuspecting brothers. Ill have to see if I have a picture of him doing this but usually I am telling him not to use the chairs for play. That dog has more energy than a power plant!

The dogs are allowed to be on beds but they do sleep in there crates. I just cannot have 240 lbs of dogs on our master bed at one time while me and hubby attempts to sleep. The kids want one of the dogs to sleep with them but they still have too many toys on the floor that can be chewed.

Yesterday, Mac "found" my bed. I think he looks quite comfy. He didn't want to get off of it but hubby had to move him because Mac was on his side. So he picks him up and Mac decides to do the 63 lbs of dead weight routine as hubby attempts to move him. LOL. I'd love to see pics of your doodles on the people furniture. :)

Here is Mac on the bed for the first time. No problem jumping up to the bed which is pretty tall.

Don't Move Me:

Pure Bliss:

I don't use furniture as springboards...much...

Pickles and Mac after backyard rompfest:

130 lbs of White Fluff (Brisby and Mac):

[Gail and Bailey]

Bailey is allowed on everything!

[Abigail *George & Juno*]

Our two are allowed on everything, but they don't generally get on the couch unless they want to be held like a lap dog (50 lb lap dog). They both start off every night in bed with us though. We have a California king, SO is 6'5" and I'm 5'4" so there's always space for a dog between/on my feet and the end of the bed. Mine are both good cuddlers for about 20 minutes. They end up in my master bathroom next to the vent on the tile floor. They do come back to bed about 5:45 am. They also nap on our bed a lot during the day.

[Adina P]

Those of you whose dogs sleep in your bed with you, did you let your kids sleep in bed with you too?  And if not, why is your dog easier to sleep next to?  I sound like a total non-dog person, don't I? LOL.  This is one area I don't get about dog ownership.  On couches, not a big deal for me to understand.  But in bed, I don't get.


I have no problem with other people doing it, but how do you get by the stinky beard, claws, doggy farts, moving and repositioning and legs kicking you randomly that I imagine you'd experience so up close and personal?  That sounds so miserable and the antithesis of a good night's sleep :/   Rosco and Boca sleep on the floor around our bed and on nights when they're unusually gassy--OH MY DOODLE!  I could not handle that in bed with me.  Or the moving and panting and licking and ... I would lose my mind at the constant disturbance.  Can you tell I'm anxious about sleep?  Babies did that to me!  My kids have slept well for 2 years now but I still get nervous at the slightest consideration of something that might keep me up at night.  I sleep with ear plugs, eye shades and on a memory foam mattress so I barely feel my husband move.  Haha.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I didn't let my daughter sleep with me; I think it creates a bad habit and it also did disturb my sleep, because I can't sleep unless everyone and everything is securely where it belongs.

But none of my dogs did the things you are describing. They slept quietly and if they moved around, I never felt or heard it. No kicking, no licking, no clawing, no stinkiness either. My XDH, on the other hand....

[Christine & Shelby]

I also don't have any of the problems you've mentioned Adina. Shelby settles in nicely for the evening and knows her side of the bed :)

[Julie, Eloise & Beasley]

Same here, Eloise doesn't do the things you've described, and she's very gentle and quiet in the bed.  I'm a light sleeper, and many nights she moves down to the floor (and she chooses to jump down off my side of the bed), but she doesn't disturb me at all.  On the other hand, I could see Beasley stepping on my head while I'm sleeping.  Verdict is still out on whether she'll get bed privileges. ;)

[Gail and Bailey]

I did not let our daughter sleep with us for the same reasons that Karen stated.  However...all my dogs have always slept with us...... on top of the covers not "in" the bed.

The only thing Bailey does is take up space on my husbands side of the bed and he does not mind.  She is the first dog I have ever had who never has gas problems!!  She does not move around at night.....with the one exception of getting up once around midnight to eat a bit of kibble and take a drink and then hop right back on the bed and sleep soundly until morning.  She is always clean and groomed (I do her myself) and if she ever got into something stinky...she would most certainly have a bath before bedtime!  I love having her with us during the night!

It is funny because I don't understand how people can have their dog sleep in a kennel in another part of their house.  I am not saying anything against it!!......I just couldn't do it.  We are all different and that is the wonderful thing about life.

[F, Calla & Luca]

My doodles come and go during the night but they usually don't disturb me. No beards =no stink. Very rarely a gassy moment. They find an empty spot and settle in. I am up often but not as far as I can tell due to them and I find it comforting when they are nearby.

[Adina P]

The main reason I don't want my kids in bed with me has nothing to do with habits really (because there are a lot of parents I know who let their kids sleep in their bed at least part of their night) and everything to do with my physical comfort and ability to sleep with a third body taking up space.  There are other downsides to having kids in the bed, but just in terms of sleep I couldn't do it.  Dogs aren't any different when it comes to that, so that's my main reason plus the fact I can't get over the part where they wrestle all over the backyard and can't take off their 'shoes' before they jump up on furniture and they don't shower more than once every few months.  If I had the time and energy I'd bathe them weekly, but I don't.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I think the body in the bed would be a deal breaker for you. But my dogs sleep outside the covers not under them so the outer layer does get grubby at times.

[Adina P]

Even on top the same movement would be going on.  We have a queen size bed and my dogs are not tiny.  I remember letting Thule sleep on the bed once when Clark was gone.  I kicked her out by 4am because she decided the middle of the bed was most comfy. I slept horribly.  I want my leg space...on nights when Clark is gone I take up the whole bed.  The comforter turns into a ball by morning...haha. Like I said, when my kids are out of the house and if I have a small dog, I might consider it.   But I love seeing photos of other people's dogs on their beds :-)

[F, Calla & Luca]

It is vital that the dogs learn "move over" means hop on it or i'lllmove you : )