Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not?

• 07-20-2008 6:07 PM

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  mudpuppy Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 5,497 Points 100

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact Once again, I am trying to agree with you that dogs are best off when knowing what the rules are and where they fit in yeah exactly. Consistency is THE most important thing to dogs. We purchased heavy leather furniture after the dogs destroyed the cloth furniture - not by "being destructive" just by inflicting their rough pads and huge claws on them- and I have no criticism of anyone banning dogs from their furniture. The letting dogs sleep in the humans bed thing, I don't get. Maybe it's a little dog thing. I would hate to have several great danes kicking and snoring and stealing the pillows while I'm trying to sleep. Plus humans generally shower daily and dogs don't so unless you're willing to wash the sheets daily which I am not the bed would soon start to smell like mud and fox poop and stinky pond water. Leather couches easily wipe down but the sheets and pillows and mattress don't.

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• 07-20-2008 9:18 PM

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  luvmyswissy Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 1,542 Points 25

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact In my house River sleeps in his crate.  Hailie sleeps with my daughter and Brooke sleeps with my son.  Brooke would sleep with us but she takes up to much room so the cats is in our bed every night. Except for Hailie non of them sleep under the covers.  I don't' really see anything getting dirty because of them but love is blind.  I don't' blame those who don't like though - I understand that.  I have one friend who won't let her dogs in her living room at all because of her white carpet.  To each there own.

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• 07-20-2008 9:56 PM

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  BlazinB Joined on 12-31-2007 New Mexico Posts 22 Points 0

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact  Yea, he's allowed on everything, he sleeps  on the bed next to me and loves sitting on the recliner. He gets off or moves when I tell him to, also if he sees I'm coming to sit down he moves aside to give me room before he snuggles up next to me.  He is quite considerate!!  Also he's a clean little dog and doesn't shed hardly at all so I don't have a problem with it!!

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• 07-20-2008 10:52 PM

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  sillysally Joined on 09-10-2007 Indiana Posts 3,442 Points 0

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact mudpuppy: Once again, I am trying to agree with you that dogs are best off when knowing what the rules are and where they fit in yeah exactly. Consistency is THE most important thing to dogs. We purchased heavy leather furniture after the dogs destroyed the cloth furniture - not by "being destructive" just by inflicting their rough pads and huge claws on them- and I have no criticism of anyone banning dogs from their furniture. The letting dogs sleep in the humans bed thing, I don't get. Maybe it's a little dog thing. I would hate to have several great danes kicking and snoring and stealing the pillows while I'm trying to sleep. Plus humans generally shower daily and dogs don't so unless you're willing to wash the sheets daily which I am not the bed would soon start to smell like mud and fox poop and stinky pond water. Leather couches easily wipe down but the sheets and pillows and mattress don't.   Mine aren't little, more medium sized (55 lbs and 60 lbs) and they sleep with us without issue.  Actually Sally prefers her own blanket on the floor usually because she dislike being bumped or poked while she sleeps, and with 2 humans who move while they sleep and a 60 lb lab who doesn't much care whether Sally is comfortable or not---all in a full sized bed, she is better off on her blanket.   Jack actually ends up draping himself over us most of the time--usually over our legs and feet.  Even if only one of us is in the bed he wants to be touching us somehow.  While DH was away on business Jack slept on my feet.  The only time he varies from this is if he gets too warm--then he stretches out on the floor for a while. Besides, I shower after I get up in the morning, which means both DH and I go to bed after working in an unairconditioned factory all day.  We just wash the sheets a lot.  "Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

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• 07-20-2008 10:53 PM

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  BlackLabbie Joined on 01-28-2008 South of Boston Posts 1,142 Points 175	Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact Nah, not a little dog thing in our house- Apollo is 100+lbs and sleeps on our bed...but, he doesn't sleep under the covers, and stays at the bottom as he liked to use one of my legs as his pillow. It doesn't bother me one bit. If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution. ~Author Unknown
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• 07-20-2008 11:29 PM

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  jennie_c_d Joined on 09-10-2007 Southeast Georgia Posts 8,710 Points 75

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact My dogs are totally allowed on the furniture. I love them sitting with me. If I want them to go away, they do. There are a couple of pieces of furniture they're not allowed on , and they're ok with that. Those pieces are rarely used by anyone but guests.   And they sleep under the covers, with me, every night. They are kept clean, and they really don't shed. The hairless dog has no hair, and the PRT is kept carded. A well carded coat sheds very, very little. Their nails are ground completely dull, all the time, so that isn't an issue, either.  Mischeif N Miracles, CGC, RE (PRT, 10/13/2003) Libby's Monkey N The Middle (Chinese Crested, 1/26/2008) Teenie Weenie at the Bridge (Dachshund, ???-12/28/2007)

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• 07-20-2008 11:43 PM

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  rwbeagles Joined on 09-10-2007 DFW, TX Posts 14,907 Points 2,035	Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact No....why not? Because it is for people only...and cats. Gina H. dog.community Moderator "Carne Asada, is not a crime."
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• 07-21-2008 12:10 AM

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  willowchow Joined on 09-10-2007 Posts 6,321 Points 300

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact mudpuppy: Plus humans generally shower daily and dogs don't so unless you're willing to wash the sheets daily which I am not the bed would soon start to smell like mud and fox poop and stinky pond water.   When Willow is on the bed she's not actually under the covers.  She just lays on the comforter or on a blanket I put on the bed.  However, her smelling like any of the above mentioned things would be unacceptable in any part of the house.

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• 07-21-2008 9:18 AM

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  2shelties Joined on 04-30-2007 suburb of Atlanta Posts 652 Points 85

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact willowchow: mudpuppy: Plus humans generally shower daily and dogs don't so unless you're willing to wash the sheets daily which I am not the bed would soon start to smell like mud and fox poop and stinky pond water.   When Willow is on the bed she's not actually under the covers.  She just lays on the comforter or on a blanket I put on the bed.  However, her smelling like any of the above mentioned things would be unacceptable in any part of the house.  Same here, they don't generally lay under the covers, and they would get a bath instantly if they smelled like any of those things..I bathe them every couple weeks anyway and use coat freshener between washes...my kids get much stinkier in a day than my dogs, and they get my sofa crummier and my carpet nastier too. Ripley - Shetland Sheepdog Frosty - Shetland Sheepdog Shiner - Border Collie Muffin and Pookie - the kitties

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• 07-21-2008 9:32 AM

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  snownose Joined on 09-29-2006 Michigan to Southeast Posts 5,178 Points 405

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact mudpuppy: Plus humans generally shower daily and dogs don't so unless you're willing to wash the sheets daily which I am not the bed would soon start to smell like mud and fox poop and stinky pond water. Leather couches easily wipe down but the sheets and pillows and mattress don't. I don't know about our dogs.......but, mine have access to outside and smell nothing like that......if that was the case, I would not let them in the house until cleaned up.

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• 07-21-2008 9:45 AM

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  dogslife Joined on 08-22-2006 Posts 1,184 Points 150	Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact  I just want to say I love  the iluvmyswissy pics!  That is where a picture is worth a thousand words, beautiful.  Lol, cute Siberian huskies are a lot like potato chips. We need to have more than one!
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• 07-21-2008 10:06 AM

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  kpwlee Joined on 06-17-2006 North Carolina Posts 4,032 Points 380

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact luvmyswissy: My husband is a shedding snoring farting man, I would prefer the dog some nights.   LOL when did you sleep with my DH? chelsea_b: Unless you sleep naked or something, I really don't see why it's grosser than a dog being on a couch.  chuffy: Our dogs are not allowed in bed with us.  I say no more.    oops me neither as for bed sharing - just not for me, sorry but Bugsy is a meticulous dog but he still has walked barefoot through whatever has been left on the grass (urine, anal gland secretions, animal poop - rabbit, deer, bird, etc.)been mole hunting, etc.  So although he doesn't smell and is not greasy, there is more germs and dirt there than I care to have in/on my bed.  Add to that I am a light sleeper and DH&I like to have our space, our bed is no place for the beast. I feel lucky that he has never had any inclination to use furniture as anything other than agility course obstacles.  Right now he is lying on the tile floor when he could be on fluffy carpet or one of his 3 dog beds or in his crate.  My friend's golden who is allowed on furniture sleeps on the tile floor. "I think Karen should get a BC next time because she deserves a more mellow laid back dog! Or a Maremma because she needs a more clingy, biddable, easily trained dog." Brookcove 2008

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• 07-21-2008 8:42 PM

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  noblewoman Joined on 09-10-2007 Western Pennsylvania Posts 202 Points 0

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact  Murphy sleeps wherever he wants. It doesn't bother me in the least. I waited soooo long to finally have a dog, I was 45 when we adopted him. I love him snuggling on the couch with me, or when I'm sitting here at the computer I look over and he's sprawled on the couch on his back snoring away it just warms my heart. He sleeps in my bed- on top of the covers in the summer, under the covers in the winter. In fact, if he's not in my room I don't sleep as well. When he sleeps next to me I feel that all is well with the world..... and that sometimes means a world with snoring.

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• 07-21-2008 9:17 PM

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  georgie4682 Joined on 09-10-2007 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Posts 1,155 Points 425

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact Mine are allowed.  Although they don't all take me up on that. Lady can't get up on anything anymore because of her arthritis so she spends her time on the dog beds or the cool wood floor. Buster almost always sits with me.  Sometimes on the couch, sometimes on the floor, usually not on the dog beds.  However he does sleep with us at night. Max prefers to me on the floor.  I think he feels that he is in the way if he is on the furniture.  He will occasionally lay in bed with me before DH comes to bed or sit on the couch, but he prefers the floor. Benny likes to find odd places to lay.  He likes the back of the couch and lately he has started sitting on the rocking chair or my computer chair (I swear he's part cat )  He also likes to lay on the hard wood floors because they are cool. GeorgAnne, Buster (greyhound mix - 14 years), Lady (beagle mix? - 14 Years), Max (GSD/cattledog - 9 years), and Benny (pom - 3 years) - CGC

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• 07-21-2008 9:19 PM

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  IrishSetterGrl Joined on 05-19-2007 Posts 715 Points 110

  Re: Is your dog allowed on the furniture? Why/why not? Reply Contact I have a question....I'm not a cat person so this doesn't make sense to me. Why are cats allowed all over the furniture and dogs are not in some homes? Is that fair to the dogs? One of the reasons I will not have cats ever is that they climb all over tables, kitchen counters, everywhere! One time I was at my uncle's house and we were about to have pie. He had 4-5 cats at the time and there was a little pawprint in the pie and hair on it. Ew. If you think a dog sleeping in bed is gross, then this has to be 100x worse. Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of people enjoy cats immensely, but isn't it kind of nonsensical to allow one pet and not the other? And neither of my dogs ever smell like poo, mud, etc. They're pretty darn clean, actually. If they did smell and it wasn't a lack of bathing/brushing problem, they would not be on the bed. But I like that my dog always follows me up to bed at night and scoots right in next to me. I feel safer and quite simply, my dog is my friend and I enjoy spending any time with him! : ) ~ISGrl Cadie - 8.5 yr/o Irish Setter Riley - 1.5 yr/o Irish Setter I love my shelter dog. Adoption IS the BEST option! =)

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