OT: are your dogs allowed on the furniture?

[lizajane]

um, yeah, neither are mine.

of course, i walk into my bedroom and find this:
http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/user_files/31560.jpg

and 10 minutes later, i walk back in and find this:
http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/user_files/31561.jpg
(at least tyler looks guilty. tucker doesn't even know i exist...)

[mariza]

To funny! Mine aren't supposed to be either, but of course it's a rule that is never really enforced, so I am always vaccuming the couches! I swear the next dog (if there is a next one, *will* learn to sleep on the floor)!
At least the cat likes to sleep on the dogbed :)

[mom_hanna]

Love the pictures! we have a black lab - sleeps on the couch and on our bed even though he has a very nice dog bed with his name on it and everything. Only sleeps on it when he gets banished from the furniture. If we leave the house and then come back because we forgot something, he is ALWAYS already on our bed. Must take him 2 seconds after we leave to run up there!

[octmom]

:) My family used to have a chocolate lab named Tucker. Sweetest dog to ever walk the planet.

Jerilyn
DS, Sean 10/03
expecting #2! EDD April 1, 2006, but anticipating a C/S in March: IT'S A GIRL!!! :)

"Baby makes days shorter, nights longer, home happier, and love stronger."

[elliput]

I don't even pretend that the dog isn't allowed on the furniture anymore. As soon I we let her back inside before heading off to work, she is up on the sofa. So much for the nice upholstery. :-( And the cats - well, they will steal your seat as soon as you get up.

[karolyp]

LOL...those pictures are tooo cute!!!

I love the first one...his expression is priceless and he looks so comfy.

[bostonsmama]

Adorable dogs...but yes I understand your frustration. My DH is a cleanliness freak, so he wouldn't let the dog on or even near the couches and bed when we first brought him home. Then, we started tenting all the furniture w/ sheets and blankets. It looked awful, and my Dh wouldn't let me remove the sheets when company came (think green and floral sheets on a beige mod-print sofa-yuck!), so off the dog went! He still sleeps with us under the covers at night (it helps muffle the snoring) but one day DH came home and I had thrown the sheets away and ever since Boston has done a good job of not climbing back up (he lays in his puppy dog bed from Costco). Every once in a while, though, we'll find him curled up on TOP of the tops of the couch cushions. Drives me bananas! He does this on our bed pillows, too. But he's usually too cute and cuddly afterwards to scold.

Anyways, thanks for the laugh!

Larissa
***Cheers! Here's to better luck in 2006!***

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
-James Baldwin

[muskiesusan]

Tucker looks just like my chocolate lab on our bed! The dogs are allowed on our beds, but that's it. Chelsea has bad hips, so she is hardly an issue anymore, but Maya has recently started to reclaim her space on our bed with the colder weather. It is making me mad as her claws are scratching the wood on our sleigh bed...grrr.


Susan
Mom to Nick 10/01
& Alex 04/04

[dogmom]

LOL!
I'm just happy my Labs didn't find a way to climb into my DS crib! If I stay up too late watching TV on the couch in the livingroom I get my Lab staring at me to get my butt off of his coach so he can settle down for the night and my Blue Tick Hound going back an forth from my bed to the livingroom trying to get me to come to bed so he has a warm body to sleep with.

My DH was the one that let our youngest, the hound, into the bed. He sleeps under the covers with us. Now DH complains that gets kicked by Blue in the middle of the night and hogs the covers. From my point of view the dog doesn't snore, he doesn't grope me in the middle of the night half asleep and wake me up, and he never leaves the bedside light on for me to wake up at 3 am to find him sound asleep with light and TV on. So the dog is much easier to sleep with than the husband! :)

Jeanne
Mom to Harvey
1/16/03

[tiikeri2]

LOL! Love it! Our dog does the same thing--he knows he's not supposed to be up there, but it's just too comfy I guess. He always hops down if he hears us approaching and looks soooo guilty. He stays off the other furniture though. It's my fault really that he's up there--DH used to have to work a lot of nights, so I would have the dog up with me. Once babies came, that ended though. Now it's his guilty pleasure. :)

Kay

[zen_bliss]

that is hilarious! tucker is too completely blissed out to notice. ahhh down puffiness!

i have a similar picture from years ago when we first got married and i briefly, briefly, flirted with the idea of no k9s on the bed. i love snuggling with them too much. they don't bother as much now that they each have their own sheepskins in their beds (costco one cut in half). try that as an incentive!

ETA: dd came over and looked at the pix and announced "dog happy!" lol

[Melanie]

LOL. That's funny.

[murpheyblue]

Those are great pictures! Tucker looks to be making himself at home!

Our dogs are allowed on the bed (only one of them comes up though) but not the couches.

[Radosti]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/Aaron3weeksold007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/Aaron14daysold006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/snow001.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/critters006.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/gingin086.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/gingin043.jpg
but they like their beds as well:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/three2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/belly002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/pile.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v281/radosti/Aaron5days060.jpg

[bcky2]

wow! you have one full house :) i love the cat sleeping in with the dogs.

[Radosti]

Yup, 3 dogs and 3 cats :)
Both of our male cats (the black and the siamese in the two bottom pics) view the IG's as personal hot water bottles. The grey cat seeks out the dogs when she wants to be groomed - the dogs wash her :)

[TraciG]

So cute, well our cat wasn't even allowed in my room but now she sometimes sleeps a little while with us on our bed,I gave in & even like it, too bad her claws ruined my comforter !

[jd11365]

A favorite pic...

This was before we got new furniture, now he's banished to the living room to HIS couch...it's a couch no one sits on but him!



http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/user_files/31565.jpg

[elliput]

The peek-a-boo picture had me cracking up! And here I was expecting that you were serious in the subject line. HA! Fooled me.

[elliput]

oops

[elliput]

Darn network!

[set81616]

I have always let my dogs on the furniture. I want a newfie so that might need to change if I get one. I had planned on teaching my dogs to not sleep on the floor for when the baby was born but my DH can be a violent sleeper so he said the baby couldn't sleep with us (which I agreed with) DS has had different ides though so DH, DS Snoopy, Shelby and I are all on the bed. Sometimes I can't move my legs or my chest. Here's a picture of them helping me through labor.
Shannon

[nitaghei]

Of course!! What's the point of spending $$$ on leather couches if the dogs don't use them? :)

The cocker typically slept under the covers, until he got too hot and then would sprawl on top of the duvet. The PWD starts the night out on the bed and then moves to her crate. The nice thing about the PWD is that she will promptly give up the place on the couch if I need it.

Nita
mom to Neel, January 2003
dog mom to a PWD and a cocker (at the Rainbow Bridge)

"Moderation is best in all things." Hesiod

[mommy_someday]

Mine were allowed on our bed (WITH us) prior to DS. Our first dog was sometimes allowed on the couch when we watched TV, but we nixed that when we got the second dog because there just wasn't enough room. We stopped letting the dogs on the bed during my first trimester so that they wouldn't associate the priviledge-revocation with DS's arrival. My first dog is really good about it, but the second one (whom we didn't have since puppyhood - she was already set in her ways at 1.5 years) constantly sneaks into the living room during the night and sleeps in DH's favorite leather chair.

Semi-OT: We have a lab and a shepard/collie mix. I bet we could swap horror stories about the amount of dog hair in our houses, Liza! :O

Adorable dogs, btw!

[Radosti]

Hehe... we ran a dog rescue prior to DS and some of those dogs have lived on chains outside. We actually taught them things like stairs and furniture and housebreaking here. So everyone is allowed on furniture.