One of the dogs is usually in bed with us, unless only one of us is in bed, then sometimes both will be there. If there is a thunderstorm, the one that isn’t on the bed much will always join us.
@RiotDemon Clearly you have never had a cat that will then proceed to howl and rattle the bedroom door until a) it opens or b) the neighbours complain.
@RiotDemon
I knew someone who, when the cat would rattle the bedroom door, would open the door a crack, and shoot the cat in the face using a mid-sized water pistol. The cat never got in. He kept the fur-monster out of the bedroom because /lawyer. Went to court a lot.
Kinda worked. But sometimes the cat would rattle the door and howl anyway. Just to torment him. If he didn’t respond at all, this cat would not get bored for a long long time.
@f00l my one cat, I would occasionally open the door and hiss at him, but then I learned that completely ignoring him was more effective in the long run. My other cat will howl and cry if his buddy accidentally got locked in my room. I guess he doesn’t like being alone.
@RiotDemon Actually I live in a studio home. No doors means no choice. I can’t even put my older girl in the bathroom because she has no trouble opening the pocket door.
My Mr. Whiskers likes sleeping on me. He’ll wait until I’ve pretty much settled down and climb up onto my haunches. Either that or he’ll snuggle down between my legs so I can’t turn over.
Not normally. My dog is never allowed on the bed. She has her own comfy bed next to mine. I’ll let the cats come in during the day if I’m taking a nap, but never at night because they’re crazy bastards in the middle of the night and go jumping on me as they try to fly across the bed. I need my sleep.
I used to let my other cats sleep in my room until the one night I woke up uncomfortably contorted because one cat is sleeping in between my legs, the other cat was behind my back, and the third was sitting on my head like a hat. That was the last night.
Our dogs were not on it with us unless invited. But they slept on it during the day when we were at work. Sometimes when I came home for lunch, if I was quiet enough, I could sneak upstairs and around the bed, start tickling their ears and end up in a happy snuffly tail thumpy dogpile before I took them out for a walk.
Since they passed on, sometimes on cold nights or during storms, I wake up and think some furry warmness was just there… They don’t ask now but that’s ok; they’re always invited.
I’d like my dog to come up sometimes, but she gets too hot almost instantly. She is a Newfoundland. She sleeps on the tile hearth most of the time, with her nose touching the box fan, even in the winter. She will come up if it’s thundering or there are fireworks.
I used to, but kicked them out about 6 months ago. I find I get a better nights sleep, and actually can wear black pants to work without the back side being covered in white hair.
The dogs, after 4+ years of sleeping with me, are still trying to understand. Yes, I feel bad about it sometimes.
@jqubed LOL! No, I sit on the bed to tie my shoes. Miss Belle sheds so much her hair is EVERYWHERE. I could change the bedding every day and it would still be covered in fur top to bottom by the morning.
@ruouttaurmind ugh… Animal fur is ridiculous. It’s so hard to get off the couch, and I do let them on the couch. I have to make sure I have lint rollers available for anyone that comes over, unless they don’t care about having hair everywhere.
Our cat sleeps in bed with us. Usually under my blanket, between my legs, sometimes right next to me. Sometimes he wakes me up, so that I could let him under the blanket. Which is a very good thing in the winter, as he’s warm. Not so good in the summer, as he’s a heatpad that doesn’t turn off and regularly catches fleas even with medicine applied. Oh well, he’s a cute little bastard.
Those little bastards with the razor claws and no proper mature attitude toward sleep and napping and being lazy - every time part of you moves under the covers, esp your extremities, they instantly become kitten claw targets.
And the claws go right thru the sheets and blankets and bedspread. Right into your toes or soles of your feet.
Kittens have s natural instinct for striking in order to wake you up in pain. Then when you are about to lock them in the bathroom, they suddenly stop targeting your toes and become ultra-cute. And cuddle. And so you don’t follow your primitive instincts to destroy or at least confine a predator who thinks you’re cute when you wake up yelling.
And then you go back to sleep.
Kitty toy!
Repeat cycle.
Oh yeah. One more thing. Got a nice down comforter? Yes? Expensive? Perhaps heirloom? You are such a sweet person.
I don’t allow any of my dogs upstairs even though they are all house trained and wouldn’t do anything up there. They do go upstairs for a bath but they are carried up and once they’ve been blow dried and are all smelly fresh and lovely. They have own beds in the kitchen and pleasure ithttp://jonsguide.org/best-top-serta-dog-bed-reviews/ This is just my personal choice
When I was still living with my parents, our family dog always slept upstairs from the day we had him but it was their house and their rules.
At the end of the day, it’s your house, your decision and only you should make it.
@unksol I had a pussy that would want to go out at 2am and discovered that if she jumped on my balls I would wake up and she would run off before she got clobbered. The 3rd time she tried it I went to the door and called her over, picked her up and proceeded to throw her across the room and bounce her off the wall. then I let her out. She never jumped on my balls again.
@cranky1950 why does your cat want to go outside at 2am. I think you are doing it wrong. Cats shouldnt go out. Also wanting to go out and wanting to be warm/snuggle are not related. Your comment doesn’t make sense.
@unksol She probably wanted to take a dump, and things were more interesting outside, cats are nocturnal hunters. Plus there’s the territory to enforce.
@cranky1950 cats use litter boxes. You made a choice to train your cat that going out was an option. An entirely unneeded one. You then chose to throw your cat into a wall because it wanted to do something you taught it to want. Then you brag about throwing your cat into a wall. You probably shouldn’t have a pet if you think this is an appropriate response.
@unksol It’s called biofeedback, a valid behavioral modification method. Your namby pamby yuppie bullshit mostly responsible for the current social malaise.
@cranky1950 don’t worry officer, I’m sure they won’t press charges! It’s not assault, I’m just using a valid behavioral modification method to teach them that bragging about animal abuse will get them punched in the face.
@ELUNO
Didn’t you mention wishing for True Love or something? Pets do offer that sort of thing, on a companionship level.
But-wait-there’s-more.
One should get a pet only for having a pet. For life. Someone who would get a pet for appearances or other weird reasons is treading into manipulative or sociopath territory.
But if one is inclined toward pets: a pet will keep you company and give you love and a better social life at home; until the day arrives when the pet can give two of you company and love and a better social life at home.
And pets can humanize people into becoming better and more attractive and decent and warm beings. And pets can have their own capacity to attract affection and attention from others who might then take a liking to you.
And pets will give you stories to tell. And listen to your stories when you don’t want to tell them here or to your friends.
Precisely: make you more attractive to the sort of people you might actually want to spend years and decades with. And make those sorts of people more inclined to wish to get to know you.
If they know you are the sort whose pet is cared for and beloved, not a disaster relationship, and you are great with your pet, that’s already a plus for many people.
@f00l And I quote “grownup takes the poison thing out. Kids pull out the hairs. Cut them up and stir fry them”. I was afraid she’d want that for dinner (oh - my kid is adopted from SE Asia as a grade schooler) and wondered how I’d ask PetSmart for their biggest, juiciest tarantula and no tarantula food. Fortunately she said, when I asked her, “No mom. Spider no good. In this country we have chicken”.
I’ve never had a problem with my cat waking me up, even when she was young - she’s asleep on my bed before I’m in it, and I’m usually the one who rudely wakes her up by moving in morning! In winter she’ll start whining at me if I’m not in bed by midnight, bc she wants a giant primate heat cushion and refuses to accept an actual heater pad as a substitute.
/giphy cat snuggle
My roommate’s cat has almost been squished a few times because he’ll tunnel under blankets piled on a bed or couch, fall asleep, and no one realizes he’s there until they’ve flopped down right on the poor guy.
I used to share my king sized bed with my king sized dogs, but I am such a light sleeper that every twitch in their sleep or change in their breathing woke me up. So I got a twin daybed and a big dog bed and reclaimed enough bedroom real estate to put in a love seat for a reading area since my bedroom has by far the most sunlight in the house.
The kind from Penthouse, sure.
@Pavlov fine with me, they’re better looking than you!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@MrsPavlov Isn’t everyone?
Our bed is ours, no pets or children allowed. We have to share everything else, that’s our place.
Used to. But our almost 12 yr-old boxer can’t get up on the bed anymore. Maybe we should get him some steps
@jsh139 I have steps so my little chihuahua can get up on the bed.
@mehbee aww, that’s nice
@jsh139 Well he’s short and fat and part of the last one is my fault so I kind of have to help the dog out.
This poll voted on while petting a one eyed tortie in bed.
@melonscoop Tortie up vote! 'cept mine has 2 eyes and a big ass tude.
@irishbyblood Don’t all torties? I thought it was genetic!
When I had pets I sure did let them sleep with me. Except for the squid.
One of the dogs is usually in bed with us, unless only one of us is in bed, then sometimes both will be there. If there is a thunderstorm, the one that isn’t on the bed much will always join us.
The snakes are never in bed with us.
I have cats; “let” is not an option.
@jadefishes Beat me to it. Cat owners don’t get this thing called a"choice".
@Pixy sure you have a choice. It’s called closing the bedroom door.
@RiotDemon
The cats in my life have always been very good with opening bedroom doors in they really wanted to.
@f00l I’ve never had that problem, luckily.
@RiotDemon Clearly you have never had a cat that will then proceed to howl and rattle the bedroom door until a) it opens or b) the neighbours complain.
@Pixy I had one like that. After ignoring it for a few nights, it quit.
@RiotDemon
I knew someone who, when the cat would rattle the bedroom door, would open the door a crack, and shoot the cat in the face using a mid-sized water pistol. The cat never got in. He kept the fur-monster out of the bedroom because /lawyer. Went to court a lot.
Kinda worked. But sometimes the cat would rattle the door and howl anyway. Just to torment him. If he didn’t respond at all, this cat would not get bored for a long long time.
/giphy art of war.
@f00l my one cat, I would occasionally open the door and hiss at him, but then I learned that completely ignoring him was more effective in the long run. My other cat will howl and cry if his buddy accidentally got locked in my room. I guess he doesn’t like being alone.
@RiotDemon Actually I live in a studio home. No doors means no choice. I can’t even put my older girl in the bathroom because she has no trouble opening the pocket door.
My Mr. Whiskers likes sleeping on me. He’ll wait until I’ve pretty much settled down and climb up onto my haunches. Either that or he’ll snuggle down between my legs so I can’t turn over.
Not normally. My dog is never allowed on the bed. She has her own comfy bed next to mine. I’ll let the cats come in during the day if I’m taking a nap, but never at night because they’re crazy bastards in the middle of the night and go jumping on me as they try to fly across the bed. I need my sleep.
I used to let my other cats sleep in my room until the one night I woke up uncomfortably contorted because one cat is sleeping in between my legs, the other cat was behind my back, and the third was sitting on my head like a hat. That was the last night.
@RiotDemon
You have the opportunity to be a kitty trampoline, and you choose to sleep?
Huh?
@RiotDemon You mention at least two sets of cats in your story. How many cats do you have?!!?
@ELUNO riot mentioned three
@Shadowcat She mentioned 3 after implying it was another set of cats. “I let my other cats sleep in my room”
@ELUNO I have two cats currently. The other 3 are no longer on this earth.
@RiotDemon Aww, may they RIP.
Are you kiddin? What is sleep? We’d never get any.
Our dogs were not on it with us unless invited. But they slept on it during the day when we were at work. Sometimes when I came home for lunch, if I was quiet enough, I could sneak upstairs and around the bed, start tickling their ears and end up in a happy snuffly tail thumpy dogpile before I took them out for a walk.
Since they passed on, sometimes on cold nights or during storms, I wake up and think some furry warmness was just there… They don’t ask now but that’s ok; they’re always invited.
My cat is cooler than everyone on this thread. Including me. I love my cat.
@NASTYSKINSUIT
/giphy cool cat
I’d like my dog to come up sometimes, but she gets too hot almost instantly. She is a Newfoundland. She sleeps on the tile hearth most of the time, with her nose touching the box fan, even in the winter. She will come up if it’s thundering or there are fireworks.
I used to, but kicked them out about 6 months ago. I find I get a better nights sleep, and actually can wear black pants to work without the back side being covered in white hair.
The dogs, after 4+ years of sleeping with me, are still trying to understand. Yes, I feel bad about it sometimes.
@ruouttaurmind I’m confused; do you sleep in the pants you’re going to wear the next day?
@jqubed LOL! No, I sit on the bed to tie my shoes. Miss Belle sheds so much her hair is EVERYWHERE. I could change the bedding every day and it would still be covered in fur top to bottom by the morning.
@ruouttaurmind ugh… Animal fur is ridiculous. It’s so hard to get off the couch, and I do let them on the couch. I have to make sure I have lint rollers available for anyone that comes over, unless they don’t care about having hair everywhere.
@RiotDemon He doesn’t mind.
@ELUNO that’s a gorilla right? 0_o
@ELUNO
I hope he found a good home.
@f00l Not yet. He was wondering if you had room for him.
@ELUNO
Hmmm. Allergies.
@ELUNO woah.
@ELUNO How does he shave so neatly around his eyebrows?
Even if I had a pet, it wouldn’t be allowed in the bed with me.
See, I let my dog be in my bed, but he never is willing to get up on my bed, so its more like he won’t let me sleep with him.
That’s how ya get the plague.
Our cat sleeps in bed with us. Usually under my blanket, between my legs, sometimes right next to me. Sometimes he wakes me up, so that I could let him under the blanket. Which is a very good thing in the winter, as he’s warm. Not so good in the summer, as he’s a heatpad that doesn’t turn off and regularly catches fleas even with medicine applied. Oh well, he’s a cute little bastard.
If you have kittens:
Those little bastards with the razor claws and no proper mature attitude toward sleep and napping and being lazy - every time part of you moves under the covers, esp your extremities, they instantly become kitten claw targets.
And the claws go right thru the sheets and blankets and bedspread. Right into your toes or soles of your feet.
Kittens have s natural instinct for striking in order to wake you up in pain. Then when you are about to lock them in the bathroom, they suddenly stop targeting your toes and become ultra-cute. And cuddle. And so you don’t follow your primitive instincts to destroy or at least confine a predator who thinks you’re cute when you wake up yelling.
And then you go back to sleep.
Kitty toy!
Repeat cycle.
Oh yeah. One more thing. Got a nice down comforter? Yes? Expensive? Perhaps heirloom? You are such a sweet person.
Kitty toy!
@f00l
@f00l or you know… Just trim their claws
@unksol
Yeah, but I have one of those weak minds like in Star Wars. Kittens use The Force on me and it works.
Aww, how cutsie cutsie swoooshy-cutsie you are when you torture me.
Awwww. Torture me some more. Stick your claws in my toes. Awwww. Cuddle cuddle.
The only true equalizer or defense I have is a laser pointer.
And if I trimmed their claws it would make it more difficult for them to shred the curtains. Awww. So darling.
/giphy "jedi kitten"
@f00l
http://www.teeturtle.com/products/bad-kitty
I don’t allow any of my dogs upstairs even though they are all house trained and wouldn’t do anything up there. They do go upstairs for a bath but they are carried up and once they’ve been blow dried and are all smelly fresh and lovely. They have own beds in the kitchen and pleasure ithttp://jonsguide.org/best-top-serta-dog-bed-reviews/ This is just my personal choice
When I was still living with my parents, our family dog always slept upstairs from the day we had him but it was their house and their rules.
At the end of the day, it’s your house, your decision and only you should make it.
If you don’t let a cold pussy who is begging to get under the covers with you you are a monster
@unksol I had a pussy that would want to go out at 2am and discovered that if she jumped on my balls I would wake up and she would run off before she got clobbered. The 3rd time she tried it I went to the door and called her over, picked her up and proceeded to throw her across the room and bounce her off the wall. then I let her out. She never jumped on my balls again.
@cranky1950 Boy you really like tennis huh.
@therealjrn Nothing like being in a deep sleep and having that happen
@cranky1950
If she was bouncing balls with that much expertise, I hope at least you gave her a nice racket.
@cranky1950 why does your cat want to go outside at 2am. I think you are doing it wrong. Cats shouldnt go out. Also wanting to go out and wanting to be warm/snuggle are not related. Your comment doesn’t make sense.
@unksol She probably wanted to take a dump, and things were more interesting outside, cats are nocturnal hunters. Plus there’s the territory to enforce.
@cranky1950 cats use litter boxes. You made a choice to train your cat that going out was an option. An entirely unneeded one. You then chose to throw your cat into a wall because it wanted to do something you taught it to want. Then you brag about throwing your cat into a wall. You probably shouldn’t have a pet if you think this is an appropriate response.
@unksol It’s called biofeedback, a valid behavioral modification method. Your namby pamby yuppie bullshit mostly responsible for the current social malaise.
@cranky1950 don’t worry officer, I’m sure they won’t press charges! It’s not assault, I’m just using a valid behavioral modification method to teach them that bragging about animal abuse will get them punched in the face.
@anemones Good lord, get out of the basement and go play in the sunshine.
Some people don’t have pets? That’s inconceivable. That’s not the way God intended it. Who will take care of you when you’re old?
@OOB Unless you get a turtle, you don’t need to get a pet until you are old.
@ELUNO
Didn’t you mention wishing for True Love or something? Pets do offer that sort of thing, on a companionship level.
But-wait-there’s-more.
One should get a pet only for having a pet. For life. Someone who would get a pet for appearances or other weird reasons is treading into manipulative or sociopath territory.
But if one is inclined toward pets: a pet will keep you company and give you love and a better social life at home; until the day arrives when the pet can give two of you company and love and a better social life at home.
And pets can humanize people into becoming better and more attractive and decent and warm beings. And pets can have their own capacity to attract affection and attention from others who might then take a liking to you.
And pets will give you stories to tell. And listen to your stories when you don’t want to tell them here or to your friends.
Precisely: make you more attractive to the sort of people you might actually want to spend years and decades with. And make those sorts of people more inclined to wish to get to know you.
If they know you are the sort whose pet is cared for and beloved, not a disaster relationship, and you are great with your pet, that’s already a plus for many people.
/image terrier
/image kitty
/image Boo
@f00l Great points! I’m going to go buy my pet tarantula now!
/giphy tarantula
@ELUNO
I think this will lead to great things in your personal life!
I hear tarantulas are very empathetic listeners.
@f00l My daughter also gave me a recipe to cook them too… so they can be an emergency meal.
@Kidsandliz
cook them before you eat them? ok. sounds interesting.
@f00l I might eat it if I accidentally kill it while cuddling with it.
@f00l And I quote “grownup takes the poison thing out. Kids pull out the hairs. Cut them up and stir fry them”. I was afraid she’d want that for dinner (oh - my kid is adopted from SE Asia as a grade schooler) and wondered how I’d ask PetSmart for their biggest, juiciest tarantula and no tarantula food. Fortunately she said, when I asked her, “No mom. Spider no good. In this country we have chicken”.
When you own a pit or an aussie there is no allow, there’s just a dog in your bed when you wake up.
I used to not allow the dog in the bed, but then he reminded me that he makes more money than I do…
Our dog’s crate is his safe/quiet place; our son loves for the dog to sleep in his bed, but the dog prefers the crate.
I’ve never had a problem with my cat waking me up, even when she was young - she’s asleep on my bed before I’m in it, and I’m usually the one who rudely wakes her up by moving in morning! In winter she’ll start whining at me if I’m not in bed by midnight, bc she wants a giant primate heat cushion and refuses to accept an actual heater pad as a substitute.
/giphy cat snuggle
My roommate’s cat has almost been squished a few times because he’ll tunnel under blankets piled on a bed or couch, fall asleep, and no one realizes he’s there until they’ve flopped down right on the poor guy.
I feel like my dog ALLOWS me to sleep in the bed. It’s sad really
Well I had to debate this today. I found lost dog and was expecting to need to take care of her tonight but just found the owners a few minutes ago.
sure my cat always in the bed with me
I used to share my king sized bed with my king sized dogs, but I am such a light sleeper that every twitch in their sleep or change in their breathing woke me up. So I got a twin daybed and a big dog bed and reclaimed enough bedroom real estate to put in a love seat for a reading area since my bedroom has by far the most sunlight in the house.
@moondrake
We are Dog Lovers, and we approve of this Giant Dog.