Is it ok the let your dog up on the bed?

It’s certainly more than OK with me. I had chemo and would have been very unhappy to have been put in a crate at night.

Lots of people let their dogs sleep in their beds. It is probably a great comfort to her to sleep with you at this time. It will be really hard to break her of it, if you decide later not to let her anymore. My dog Myrtle sleeps in her crate at night. She seems to like it, sometimes during the day, she goes in for a nap on her own. I’ve been told that because they are den animals the crates make them feel safe.

In your own house, and with your own dog, it is certainly up to you to decide what is ok and what is not.

Absolutely. I just lost a dog 2 months ago and if I had known I only had 2 days left with her, I would have done anything to make her happy or comfortable.

As long as your bed is big enough to hold you and the dog, and as long as no other rightful owner of the bed objects, sure! Dogs love to sleep with their people. One of our dogs loves her crate but if given a choice between crate and human bed (with human in it) she would opt for the bed every time.

Bear in mind that some dogs are “pushers” that will shove you right off the side of the bed and big dogs like our American Bulldog make whatever body part of ours she rests her head on go to sleep but in a pins and needles way. Dogs also snore, fart, and hog the covers, but then so do people.

Once you decide to let her sleep on your bed be prepared to have companionship at night for as long as your dog lives with you, though.

Max, the ferocious German shepherd would love to sleep on the bed every night, but I just can’t do it. Hubby is a big enough bed hog as it is, I’m not trying tofught with another one trying to squat in my spot. I look at animals sleeping in the bed similarly to kids sleeping in the bed; it elevates them to a spot I’m not willing to give up. It’s my marital bed, nobody else belongs there unless they’re supporting me and paying bills. Max is fine on duty by the side of the bed.

*to fight

i have a dog and he use to sleep with me in my bed so we started crating him and he had a problem for the first night or 2 then he got better and now he switches between the bed and crate,so i dont think there should be a problem switching your dog back to the crate if you ever choose to but i think you should let her sleep with you.

i’ve got 5 dogs. 3 of them sleep on the bed with me…the other 2 don’t fit or they’d be there too. i would’t have it any other way.

Only you know what you’re comfortable with. Whatever you decide will be right for you.

It’s your call but allowing your dog to sleep with you can cause two problems:
1. They tend to stretch out and can interfere with your sleep. (Dreaming of chasing rabbits as such with justcwake you right up.)
2. This will cause your dog to consider itself an equal to you. Training may become difficult or forgotten.

If I didn’t sleep with my dog I’d feel like a jerk. Then again she’s six pounds of white fluff and nestles in my arm. She isn’t to big of a deal in any situation.

I hope everything with your dog turns out well, if it works for you sleep with her, spend as much time as you can with her. That’s what I think anyway.

why not, i have a king size bed ,and she sleeps on one side and me get the rest of the bed,

We’ve got a 45-pound Husky that sleeps in/on/over/around our her bed. We do fine until she decides to stretch out on her back with legs sprawled in the air. At that point, she’ll get pushed by either of us humans and she’ll usually end up curled in a ball at the foot of the bed. I suppose she’s pretending to be in the snow.

She’s great on cold winter nights, though. Nice foot warmer for both myself and the wife. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

yeah, i need a bigger bed. the little guy sleeps on my head. occiasionally i wake up with a paw in my face. i’m always warm tho.

good luck with your baby, hope she gets better fast.