Just a nosey questions as to where other peoples dogs sleep? In your bed, in the kitchen, in the utility room, outside kennel/shed ? Just wondering on others peoples thoughts to where a dog should sleep

A dog should sleep in the kitchen but my oldie, being the first singleton we have had for 25 years, has somehow ended up being the first ever to have her bed in our bedroom   Never again though :-)

Well in our bed of course, where they should be!  They're just so nice to cuddle up to and really no trouble.

Have 1 in the bedroom but the rest are in their kennels in the cellar, which I hasten to add is warmer than the house with 3 6ft freezers on the go as well as downstairs central heating pipes running thru there, am thinking of turning it into my lounge and kitchen for that very reason!

My girls sleep in bed with me, just where they should be :-)

Ha well that's what happens in this house. Our cav settles herself on the bed, but now got a pup was wondering if to put them together downstairs before the other one tries for a space on the bed aswell after she finished the housetraining in her crate !! But she is so warm and cuddly and sleeps all night when with me with not a pip out of her

In the kitchen, under the table. We had Beattie in our room on our bed (she refused to sleep in a dogbed when there was a far more comfortable alternative!) for a few months after her stroke, and it was awful! None of us got more than a couple of hours sleep at a time because she was such a fidget. Never again. Luckily we've managed to rehab her downstairs again with the others.

maybe i can rehab my cav downstairs with my pup when she finished with the crate. but i do admit that she being in the bed doesnt bother me, she's lovely and warm and cuddly and sleeps all night with not a pip, part says anything for an easy life, but then part says no cos she's got company now and another for her to cuddle upto instead of me

arrhhh Schip, how come one gets the bedroom and the others don't. does that one get special treatment for a reason ???

In the kitchen.

Unless we're camping - then we all sleep in the same pod :-D

in his 'tub' bed full of duvets till whichever of us is working in the morning gets up, then he replaces whoevers gotten up for a bit. eventually he gets bored and goes back to his bed (not one for mornings is Tio :))

dill i think it's what you need when camping, warmth of all being together ! Ha sounds great

When we first got our Papillon, Freddy, he liked to curl up beside our bed on a fluffy rug. Then he got more relaxed with us so it was up onto the bed, and he just looks so blissfully happy! He curls himself into a little ball so takes up hardly any space and he doesn't stir till we get up.
Our Coton who we had first always used to lie on my head like a little warm hat!! But these days she's more of a foot warmer (and foot licker...!)

Now that I see how many of us own up to sharing beds, I feel quite brave...so I'll admit that my (2) WSS always leave a space in the bed for me. We've got plenty room ever since my (ex)partner suggested that it might be a case of him or the dog. I went for two dogs, one of my very best best decisions ever!

yes JAY15 dogs dont answer back ! good decision

Both girls are snuggled up with each other in their bed,next to our bed,and i never hear a sound from them.

sounds like my cav Honeybee, she is sometimes a little warm hat, but more of a foot warmer, curled up taking up little room, so whats one more hey !  mmmm will have to see when the pup finishes her crate housetraining ! Ha

if i had my way boo would sleep upstairs with me , he gets to sneak up when my parents are away and when the girls are in season , otherwise he sleeps in his crate and ailsa has a crate beside his , mollie sleeps on the couch in the family/dog room , and lady muck 'lil' sleeps in my parents room ,

Ooh yes loucon what's one more?! They are just too delightfully cuddly!

Yes Honeybee i agree, maybe you are swaying me to the, oh what the hell, when she's finished her housetraining, i love them to bits and we are always together, and a bonus is i get a full nights sleep as there isnt a pip out of them when with me

Unfortunatly mine sleeps on my bed (although i do feel as though i'm sleeping on HER bed !!)

I've mollie coddled her as she has an auto immune illness and have allowed her to come upstairs incase she becomes ill during the night.

I only wish she would sleep in a little corner of the bed not sideways with her backside shoved into my side..very uncomfortable :(

> arrhhh Schip, how come one gets the bedroom and the others don't. does that one get special treatment for a reason ???

Nope just the way its worked out, the others have turned their noses up at my memory foam mattress kingsize bed preferring their own quarters in the Cellar, this young lady however went Oh yeah that's what I'm talking about mum so she stayed coz she didn't cry and pace all night to leave --------- a woman could get a complex with some dogs lol.

schip, are they mad, king size memory foam. well by all counts your cellar is pretty cosy, wish i had one !

i have 1 in the living room ...2 in the kitchen and 1 outside in her kennel and i must say thats what she wants not me lol ....she likes to come in in the day but if i tell her to stay in at night she crys at the back door so when i say bed time our ESS runs outside so i dont lock her in the house lol my GSD runs to her bed in the living room :) and the 2 pups are in the kitchen ....:) and i have a massive kingsize bed to myself :):) as i make hubby get on the sette when he starts snoring and thats ever night lol lol    ;)

I kind of chop and change but all the cavs in the bedroom. Usually one on the bed but another starts on it then goes to his own bed......maybe I fidget too much.
An old boxer in her own waterproof bed beside me, she's getting a bit leaky :-(

Now if they could make the occasional cup of tea that would be every dog in the world camped out in a bed...:-)

my boy starts the night down on the sofa, cant leave him in kitchen as he opens the cupboard doors and would eat EVERYTHING! each morning about 6am he sneaks up onto the bed, has always done this since a puppy. i pretend not to notice, i get up at 6.30am anyway. only problem is the weekend when i like to get up about 7.30am, he takes up a lot of space being 45kg!

Well, my dog sleeps in his crate in the kitchen-he still cant be trusted out alone lol and my bitch likes to stretch out on the sofa, but if my OH isnt home or i go to bed first she always comes with me, and gets on the bed(she refuses to sleep on the floor!!) but she goes back downstairs when oh comes to bed- he doesnt mind the lummax but she decides she must cuddle mummy in the night so nicks all my quilt and space so i tell her to go downstairs!!

> Unfortunatly mine sleeps on my bed (although i do feel as though i'm sleeping on HER bed !!)

Like it!  :-)

To be fair, even if I wasn't in my double bed - there are far too many dogs to fit on it! 

16 year old Toy Poodle comes up if she wants to, privilege of age!  Otherwise she has her bed in the living room.  She is such a grump I let her sleep away from the gang. 

If anyone isn't very well they come to bed with me so I can keep an eye on them.  Everybody else in the kitchen and although they have individual beds, they do chop and change.  Looks ridiculous seeing a large Border Collie in a Yorkie bed, but there you go! 

Any girls with pups have a seperate room, and I can put a camp bed up for myself while they need me with them.

Buster sleeps on the sofa, he gets the best spot where he can watch the TV comfortably if there's anything that catches his attention on (he loves watching documentaries with big cats, esp. lions!!). He doesn't 'do' stairs, so theres no chance of him trying out my bed :)

In the bedroom OH is a real softy and cannot leave them when they are little, usually only the oldest sleeps on the bed all night, baby starts on the bed then  sleeps on the sofa at the bottom (bought especially for them) and Annabelle sleeps under the bed on my side. Unless dad is away then everyone is in (Good job I have a massive super king) :-D I think it is the feather bed they like. :)

Cher sleeps in my bed, under the covers.  Kinda missing her being there, as I am so used to it, but right now (obviously) she sleeps in the whelp box.  Although it is still in my room, so I still have her near. Gotta get a teddy bear to sleep with I think, to take her place for the next few weeks! 

> Kinda missing her being there,

I know what you mean if I don't have Boo, the oldest girl I cannot sleep until she is in bed. Her snoring is comforting :)

in the kitchen and dining room.
if they were to come to the bedroom i would have to replace the floor with mattues as they dont make beds big enough . lol.

Mine sleep in the utility and our lab girl in the hall way, as the crate takes up too much room in the utility for them all to sleep at the moment.
Though when i was in hospital my hubby admitted to letting the dogs up in the bedroom LOL.

We have 2 Border T's in bed with us, plus 2 cats, the rest sleep in the kitchen, but when OH gets up at 5.30 am after they have had a pee, the 2 Danes come to bed with me, and I usually get up as there is NO room!!
The Danes love the king sized bed, usually all 3 are on it!! lol

Crates in the kitchen but with the lounge door open so they dont get cold/hot

All three of my dogs sleep in the utility,i moved the freezer into the garage and now there's a big space under the work top for a really large bed and it's nice and cosy. they don't really go upstairs. I love them to bits but it's nice to have a peaceful nights sleep without them.
I did try letting them sleep on a bed in my room once but they kept fidgeting and seem alot happier down stairs. also i've got young children who get up at the crack of dawn and the dogs think they can get up early to if their up stairs.
  

Jake our BC sleeps in Whistler's bed in the office he has his own bed but will not use it, legs all over the place and his head on the floor really funny!! its far too small but he's happy!

I just had the first dog to sleep in my bed for ages last night, a youngster whose confidence is so low she wouldn't even let my OH pet her or pick her up, but she snuggled right in last night.  Say bedtime and everyone else goes to the dog room (daughters old bedroom) and waits for doors to be opened in there crates.

Mine did sleep in the hall until Mischa had her pup - The whelping box is in my room and Roxy cried and missed her so much we have moved her crate into my youngest daughters room. I pop her in when I go to bed and when I wake up she is often under the covers on the bed so I think Katie sneaks her in during the night.
Not sure what will happen when pup is old enough to leave the whelping box- Back to the hall I suppose

Floyd sleeps in our bedroom, he has his own bed with a small duvet, sometimes he stays in it all night, sometimes he gets on the bed with us. 

But he never sleeps on our bed like he does in his bedroom bed or his 2 other beds he has downstairs also (2 of them are big enough to spread out if he so wished), he always curls up in a ball, but when he gets on our bed he is pratically spreadeagled and OH and me end up balanced on the edge of the bed.

Jane

My 3 sleep in the utility room (also known as 'the dog room') - although this weekend we had the Sam & the Cavalier in our bedroom with us as we had boy dogs staying over and wanted to keep them separate. The Cav slept in her little bed and didn't hear a peep from her until about 4am when I was actually woken up by her snoring then the Sam woke me up at 6.30am as she needed a wee - and I usually get up at that time anyway to let them out.

My OH likes dogs on the beds but I dont - although I have been known to allow the Cavalier to sleep under the duvet with me if I've returned from a boozy night out ;-)

All three sleep in our bedroom, they always have as did their predecessors :) 

The current eldest gets on and off during the night if she's too warm - her fave spot is at my hubby's feet so she's not in the least obtrusive. 

The middle one claims the middle of the bed as her own and stays all night, starts off snuggled up against my tummy and then aims for the bottom of the bed - she's precious and she knows it :-p

The youngest tries to usurp the middle one at various stages throughout the night - he never wins but isn't the sharpest tool in the box so keeps trying LOL.  Of late he's decided that the middle pillow on the bed is just 'made for him' and so does flying leaps from the floor aiming himself for that spot and we're often caught in the cross fire :-D  Bless him, he's a trier - but he gets ejected regularly from his chosen spot because he can't resist the urge to 'groom' us during the night!

My GR has full access to downstairs, I tend to find him on his back fast asleep on the sofa when I get up in the mornings, he does not go upstairs, not my choice he has just chosen never to go up them !!! however when we are camping he sleep on my feet at the bottom of our airbed.

When at home the gruesome twosome sleep in their crates (with doors open) downstairs, with access to the utility, kitchen and lounge.  This is their place of choice - crates are all padded out with multiple duvets - and it is rare to find either of them anywhere else, such as on the sofa.

When we're away visiting friends or on holdiay with other doggie people, then the dogs sleep in the bedroom.  The bitch curls up in a very tight ball at the foot of the bed and tries to pretend that all the commotion higher up the bed just isn't happening!  The male insists on sleeping with his head on a pillow and to be honest is just like sleeping with a man - snores, farts, tosses and turns and hogs the duvet!  Come to think of it, I divorced the ex for less than that!  :-D 

We have 2 in the porch area - attached to the kitchen but separated by a dog gate.  2 in the kitchen, 2 in the living room and sometimes 1 in the dining room (which is really an office/dogs room) or if not she can be found on my bedroom floor!

My boy sleeps in my bed with me, soemtimes on my pillow, sometimes next to me, sometimes at the end! But yh, he has a bed, but never even goes in it lol! All our dogs sleep in each of their owners rooms LOL, couldnt be without my doggi at night

Our dogs sleep wherever they like, with the exception of our bed which is dog free!

Our pyrenees sleeps downstairs, moving from dog bed to sofa to hallway... whereever he feels most comfy at the time.

Our lurcher sleeps in the dog bed next to our bed.

Our other lurcher sleeps in the dog bed in our upstairs hallway and sometimes in the dog bed next to our bed.

Our ACS sleeps on the dog bed on the other side of the bed.

Every few months they decide to swap places... LOL

Jack and Rory (both entire males) sleep downstairs in the massive open plan area which comprises kitchen, lounge and family room.  They have the complete freedom of the downstairs.  They are not allowed to sleep in the bedroom because a) there isn't enough room in the Kingsize for OH and me! b) they get a tad possesive and that is when the bad behaviours start (from all 3 males I might add).  I do like a snuggle on the sofa if I go for a nap but it does cause too many problems when they have a claim on the bed.