Hi, How can I break my two labs habit from sleeping on my bed? They are currently 4 months old and I really don't mind right now, but I know that they will grow to be almost 90 lbs each and by then it will be a major problem. I would rather them sleep on the floor or on a doggie bed, but how do I do that?

Put their bed outside your door or in the kitchen and shut the door. They may complain for a couple of days and then give up. If you have to use earplugs do.
Ja:)kie

Shut the bedroom door and when they learn to open the latches (if you have them) then put them on upside down.

Make comfortable beds on the floor for them wherever you wish them to sleep and be persistent in ensuring they stay there. You have made life more difficult for yourself by having two at once (as I imagine you have discovered) but it can be done if you are stubborn enough.

If they were mine I would put beds for them in separate rooms so you can train them one at a time

Christine

errrrr......tell them to get off & shut the door?

LOL Sam.

Or worse make a comfortable bed for yourself elsewhere. Dogs love their owners beds, who can blame them.

Joking apart, I agree make them sleep outside in thier beds and be firm with them.

Pam

Boot them out now!!!! This is one of the more obvious signs to them that you are top dog, you are not their equal...you are the boss. Throw them off that bed now!:)
Besides...imagine all the nasty bedbugs,dust mites thriving on all that extra food in your bed UGH!:D
Repeat after me "OUT!"....."NOW!"
Julie :)
What can I say I love my bed. :D

Well, I have to admit that my two dogs sleep on the bed and used to do it all night long. But in the summer, it gets too warm. In the winter, it's great when they come up at 4am...but they are small dogs :D :D They like their beds which are under the nightstand and go there at the beg. of the night or when I whisper "Bed" :)

Large breeds, I really think, have to be brought up with the concept of "Start out how you mean to go on" --- kind of like a marriage :D :D Don't begin to iron socks unless you want to be ironing socks 10 years from now :)

Seriously, though, if you can't determine how to get your sweet 4 month old puppies to stay off your bed or out of your bedroom, it does not bode well for when they hit adolescence and do REALLY naughty stuff :rolleyes: ;) :) :D
good luck,
toodles

My oldie Una often gets on the bed in the early hours, I don't think it matters if they are on the bed as long as they will either stay off or get off when told. We let the dogs on our old suite but they aren't allowed on new one just told them no and they don't do it. Mind you I have come home and found Una on it but at 13 in March she is allowed little privileges-OK she's spoilt;-)
Anne

Well, here is what I did. Toss em off the bed and kneel on it growling at them angrily and saying NO...MINE! Always do that, no matter when it is you find them on it. My puppy didnt sleep in her doggy bed until she was about 4 months old, until then she preferred the rug beside her bed?!?! Anyway, now she loves her doggy bed. Also she is never allowed on our bed... best bed in the house is for the top dogs! Also a baby gate that keeps them out of the room is helpful until they learn to stay out... we couldn't shut the door because we also kept the cats food and water in the corner of the room to keep the puppy out of it. At any rate she learned, she will come in and sleep on the rug beside the bed and that is alright, but she also knows that if we say 'go to bed' she is to go to her doggy bed right away. Hope any of this is helpful.