sleepy time - Page 1

so where do your dogs sleep at "bed time"? 

with you?

in a crate?

in your room in a crate?

not in your room in a crate?

not in your room?

I am getting a new Puppy in January (sooooooo excited !!!!!!!!!) and was wondering what you guys do?

I am putting mine in my room, and in a crate as a puppy.......... but I know he is gonna end up in bed with me...

Abram always in my room with me.  Wherever he wants, floor or bed.  The girls take turns in the bedroom, on the floor or bed if there's room.  The two girls not in the bedroom are crated in the family room. 

never let your dog think it's equal too you by sleeping in bed, on your furniture, you are asking for dominance issues .if you are not experianced you will find problems in the future that you may not be able to correct.crate train be stong be dominant.that dog will grow up and take over your house.think like alfa dog from day one.

I don't totally disagree as you do have a good point and people can cause issues by allowing their dogs on furniture and beds.  However, this works for me the way it is.  Abe is almost 5-years now, just the last few months has he been allowed extra privilages of sleeping on the bed, before it was crate or floor.  I can point without a word and he gets off the bed, I am carefully keeping the lines drawn.    The girls are the same.....

yes but you know what you are doing .lots of people do not.and then the dogs rule.i also let my dogs sleep with me when i say it's ok. like when im cold..i do love them and trat with kindness but first they must know im boss man or women.if the pups get to feeling poorly i lay down with them.if they are real young and the mother is mean to them i sleep,when i cansleep,all tucked up and warm together.however iv,e alot of training under my ass and know when and where to draw the line . most pet owners do not.

My dog sleeps in a create, but at about 4 I let her come to the bed why? because that is around the time he had enough sleeping and she will start playing and that create i really noise :) lol hahahaha

I advise crate training for a young puppy (8 weeks, not housebroken.)  The pup should be in his crate when he isn't playing with you, eating or outside using the facilities with your supervision. Use a thick towel for his crate bedding since towels are easy to wash. Young pups sleep a lot anyway. The crate can and probably should be in your bedroom - that way you will hear him when he whines at 2 am because he has to go outside. And again at 4 and 6...lol. House training is done in 10 to 20 days with this regimen.  Your pup will have to be about 11 to 12 weeks old before he sleeps through the night. Depends on the pup.

My dogs sleep in my bedroom or in the hall outside my bedroom. Not on the bed. I have no trouble being the alpha, but GSDs take up a LOT of bed. I've never had one that liked to curl up in a little ball. Nooo... mine sprawl all over and try to take up most of the bed. So, no dogs in my bed. When your pup outgrows his crate and is housetrained, you can get a dog bed or rug that's just for him and put it where you want him to sleep.

I work nights, so my boy sleeps in a crate till either midnight or 430 am. When I get home, I let him out to use the bathroom then he comes to my room to sleep on the floor next to me. I tried letting him sleep on the bed once and I was stuck in one single spot cause he took up the whole bed.  And when hubby gets home from his deployment i dont think he will be wanting to share the bed with the dog

Here, bed time is a struggle....I'm a chronic insomniac.  My better half always goes to bed before me, and Heidi, my female, goes to bed with him and stays in my place until I go to bed, then she either curls up at the bottom of the bed of goes to the dog bed on my fiancee's side of the bed.  Apollo, my 100 lbs (and fit) huge Zidane son, is a major Mama's boy behind closed doors...lol.  He stays in whatever room I am in, laying across the doorway waiting for me to go to bed, and when I go to bed, he lays with from his elbows up across me (crushing me) while I pet him.  Then he either gets too hot and gets off the bed or manages to squeeze on the bed.  When he sleeps in the floor, he sleeps on a huge old down comforter (I couldn't find a dog bed big enough) beside me.  When I take a nap or sleep-in alone both Heidi and Apollo are on the bed.  They do both "ask permission" to get on the bed.  Heidi used to have unlimited bed access and we had some dominance issues so she got her privileges taken away, then after a month or so I started let her up only if she waited for my command to allow her up.  She's staying in line with that. 

We have a couch that the dogs are freely allowed on.  They are not allowed on the "human couch" at all, only the "dog couch" and they usually lounge there for a daily nap.  There's an x-large crate in our living room that's too big for Heidi (she's about 65 lbs) that she sometimes naps in.

We plan to add a puppy soon too (extremely excited doesn't begin to describe) and though he or she will of course be crated in whatever room we are in at first, I know in the end, he or she will end up on the bed.  Three years ago when I bought my nice plush queen bed, Heidi wasn't allowed on it at first because it was all nice and expensive, then I missed my dog being there so she was allowed in the bed, next came my fiancee, next came Apollo....we need a king bed before the puppy comes into the picture....LOL.

-Nichole

MAYBE.....................i'm completely wrong here but I'm gonna go out on a limb................................... whats wrong with Kennels.... outside...as in not inside.................. certainly not the bed....... and get yourselves some hottie as in human to sleep with you wont even remember the DOGS!