Where and How does your dog sleep?

My little ZOEY sleeps with me in my bed.  Sometimes under the covers with me or just lays next to me on top of the covers.  She likes to sleep either in my stomach area or by my legs.
 
She is a little Min Pin ..... only 6 months old.

Hi, just a question! How do you let your dog loose without tearing up your house, my pup sleeps in his crate and i would love for him to trust him not to tear things up, every chance he gets he tears something up so he has to be constantly watched when he is loose in the house, he is 8 months old? Even when I buy him a bed to put in his crate he tears it to shreds, now i have an old jacket in there, which is actually lasting, any suggestions on how to stop the chewing problem so he could be trusted outside his crate while we sleep?????? Thanks

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I have one young dog who was placed and returned.  Tylers never gotten into anything...well, except for the milk jugs in the recycling outside, and he's not slept in his crate since he came home at about 7 months.  I have one who's two years old who I don't trust further than I can throw him......give him time.

Thanks, glenda! My little monkey just love munching on things, toys only last two seconds in our house...... At least the jacket is keeping him comfortable, he didn't even try to tear that up, maybe cause it has our scent on it!
Its funny how people give up their dogs for the smallest reasons? We have all the patience for our pup, our pup really tests us and is totally stubborn [] but he is a real sweety!

You know that old threat about giving/selling the kids/dogs to the next band of passing gypies??  I SAW SOME TODAY!!  I was sitting at the puter and Sheba started barking out the window that faces the road...this is a county road that has a fair amount of traffic and she doesn't bark at vehicles....then I heard the boys outside barking so got up and looked and sure enough, there was a cart full of gypsies, horse drawn with a mule tied to the back of the wagon.
 
Now, lucky for my crew that I saw the gypsies BEFORE I discovered that someone had snacked on the pull start for the lawn mower....it takes FOREVER to get my son to fix stuff!

bruno
like to sleep in his crate with a cover over it and it has a bed inside.

I've started to let Panda wonder the house more, so he now still mostly sleeps in his bed in my room, but now he'll also go to the living room and cuddle up next to the couch, I also saw him bit a pillow and drag it down to cuddle with it.

gus always sleeps at the foot of my bed. usually right by my feet. he's still a puppy so he's pretty small...i wonder if it will be hard to get him to sleep elsewhere when he gets older?

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thirdday, YOU should be the one who controls the bed...and everything else.  I'd suggest that you start now telling your dog where it's ok to sleep.  And if you think he's going to be too big to sleep in your bed then I'd not let him do it now either.  Of course, I have german shepherds and there's not telling what part of them I'll find in my face.......

Thirdday, I do think you might have trouble getting him to sleep elsewhere later on. Max sleeps in my bed, but the other night he was bugging me, so I didn't wanna let him in. I have a chain lock on my door so he can't get in during the day, so I left the door cracked, and I was gonna have him sleep right outside my door. He whined constantly until I finally let him come in and sleep with me. 

Ben sleeps on his bed by my side of the bed.

Maggie sleeps on her bed by Patrick's side of the bed.

Zhi sleeps on her pillow and lets me lay my head on it, too.  She also lets Patrick and I sleep on the part of her bed she can't possibly use as a 10 pound dog.

Rocky puppy is crated in the hall.  So are the two foster dogs, also.  These dogs are all in varying stages of socializing training, hence the house priveleges.

Doug the Dog, Ann, and Jen sleep outside.  It is imperative that they remain acclimated to the weather - plus Jen has a condition that makes her incontinent on and off.  She is much comfier in the kennel. 

Doug can't be trusted in the house - all those stories about BC hell-on-wheels that tear the door off the fridge and eat the walls?  That's Doug.  I can't tell you how many times I've called the vet to ask whether I should bring Doug in after he ate 1000 yeast pills/250 vitamin B pills/10 rimadyls/roach bait/hairspray/25 pounds of birdseed/8 pounds of instant rice/lightbulbs, etc (by the way, if your dog eats a lightbulb, feed him cotton balls soaked in milk and then go to the vet.  If he eats 8 pounds of instant rice, feed him a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide and stand back.  If he eats 25 pounds of birdseed just clear your schedule because you'll be spending a LOT of time in the backyard!).

 I don't like to crate him because of his hip dysplasia, so he hangs out in the kennel when he's not with us.  He's tired of us most of  the time anyway.[]

Ann actually sleeps inside about half the time, really, since she's not full time in the working rotation yet.  She's still my baby dog.  She sleeps on the bed, with her head trying to push Zhi off the pillow.

That's life on the farm!