Does your Doodle have a favorite must have toy or stuffed animal? I'm asking this because every night as we go to bed, Murphy grabs his stuffed tiger and heads upstairs. He actually sleeps with this tiger.
Our Daisy does too. She has 1/2 dozen stuffed "buddies". The brown dog, a monkey and a small cream colored dog that could have been her twin the week end she came home are the ones we call her "best buddies". She cuddles with them during the day and at night. When we come home she finds one of her best buddies and brings it to us.
Beau's fave is his plush ducky....that goes "quack quack quack" three times when you squeeze it. Although he frequently lines them all up and sits proudly in front of them, as if to say "these are my riches, and I am so lucky"!
This is snuggle buddy #3. He has slept with snuggle buddy from the very first night. He takes him everywhere which is why we're now on #3!! I hope they never quit making these, maybe I should stock up :-)
Grover has a stuffed gorilla that he takes to bed and grabs first thing in the morning before going downstairs. He also suckles the gorillas head and kneads him like a cat! I think this calms him, as he usually does it close to bedtime. He's been best buddies with "Bananas" since he arrived here 9 months ago......only then, "Bananas" gorilla was larger than him.
I didn't take pictures of this but our 5!/2 month old Thomas sleeps with a white fluffy stuffed dog that my son bought me 5 years ago at "Pottery Barn" and paid a small fortune for it. The day we brought Thomas home we gave it to him to sleep with in his crate as we thought it would mimick the feel of his siblings. Well we never heard a peep from him that night and to this day he takes it to bed with him and then carries it outside first thing in the morning. The problem is that he leaves it out there in the snow until we go out and bring it in for him!