Sleeping dogs ~ Your bed, dog bed, or crate?

my dog never leaves my side if I can help it. it averages out to about 17 hours a day i'm with her. she sleeps on a dog bed next to my (very low) bed so I can throw my arm around her at night.

Crates.....
I do not like waking up to find the kitchen (or bathroom) trash all over the house...They usually don't get into stuff or potty in the house but there are always exceptions and when I am getting up in the middle of the night or in the morning, cleaning the house is not what I want to do. Several of them use to sleep with me but after weeks or months (lol) of no sleep I decided it was not worth it.

Hmmm, you have some friends in rescue, maybe the little white terror can be rehomed (lol)...It sucks tho when you have to turn your routine upside-down because of something like that. And no getting woke up in the middle of the night with a claw in the eye is no fun, hence another reason I started putting them up at night. Good Luck

Oh hey maybe if the little 'thing' disappeared for a day or two, they would rethink leaving him out to wonder the streets....or maybe you can get a friend (that the neighbors don't know) tell the people they almost hit the dog when it was out in the street...and if they don't care then they wouldn't notice the dog missing...Maybe someone could have made a call to AC because they are worried about it getting hit by a car?

Well I let Grizzly and King sleep in my room but Can you believe that they end up in my bed anyways?LOL I shoo them off and then we are good for the rest of the night but I am actually considering just crating them being that the little time that I have for sleep is always interrupted by doggie smooches . They are crate trained but I only crate them when I am not home....... I think they may rebel out of culture shock.

My dogs sleep where ever they please. usually it is at the end of my bed or my daughters. Sometimes the couch.
They don't get into anything so i dont have to worry about that.
My foster dog romeo sleeps in a small room off of our kitchen. (with a babygate closing the doorway) It has a crate in it with the door open and there is a dog bed on the floor in it. He is normally in the crate when I get up in the morning.

Well most of them are crated but Bella and Gage does sleep with my wife and me

I used to crate Rocky but as he got a little older i just gave him the liberty of the whole house. He doesn't cause any problems or anything and most of the time he comes up to my room and sleeps at the end of my bed. I can understand the no sleep nights because it used to be like that in the beginning when he used to come up and take up the whole bed but hes gotten used to giving me all the room now and its not so bad. I couldn't imagine doing this with 2 of them though lol

Right now Jaws sleeps on the couch, Dookie and Enzo are in crates (on the bed after 4 am) and Reagan is in the whelping box still.

Four of them sleep outside. Two of them sleep on their dog beds.

Ok I can do an update too...lol....
Sugar (chihuahua) sleeps in bed with me
Missy is in heat so she is in her crate...but usually sleeps wherever she wants
Everyone else is outside

you outsiders are sooo mean JK. I have been threatening to kick EVERYONE out.

riot and tommi sleep in the bed w/me, and rose sleeps in the crate. she is a little shy so the crate has always been a comfort thing for her. im not gonna argue, i d just end up w/ three in bed.

My puppy sleeps in a crate at night and when i g to work he goes in the crate as well. But i have a friend stop by and let him out so he's not cooped up to long:) But he did very good with the crate training he don't even have accidents in it any more. I leave his crate door open in the day time and he naps in it to every so often, but it took some serious training and work to get him use to the crate i didn't force him into it.