{"id":21395,"date":"2016-04-14T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puppyintraining.com\/?p=21395"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T00:38:21","slug":"where-does-your-dog-sleep-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puppyintraining.com\/where-does-your-dog-sleep-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does Your Dog Sleep At Night? In Your Bed? In A Crate?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where does your dog sleep?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Where does your dog sleep at night? In your bedroom? In your bed? In a crate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re bringing home a puppy for the first time we highly recommend crate training and teaching your puppy to sleep in his crate at night<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about your well behaved, well trained older dog?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should he be allowed to sleep on your bed at night? It’s a personal choice and as long as everyone in bed is comfortable and safe then by all means allow your dog to sleep with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are definitely pros and cons to allowing your dog to sleep in your bed and in our house the pros outweigh the cons as we allow our two elder dogs to sleep in bed with us at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Our Dogs Sleep At Night<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We just got back from vacation (actually it was our honeymoon) and one thing my wife and I noticed was no matter how tired we were we both had trouble sleeping at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s true we slept in a wide range of beds from a regular queen sized bed to a murphy bed to a pull out and maybe this was a big reason why we had some issues with our sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the flight home from Colorado we both conclusively decided that the main reason for our restless nights was that we did not have a dog(s) sleeping in the bed with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess we missed the dog fur, stealing of the blankets, hogging the bed, snoring (Stetson snores louder then anyone I’ve heard), etc that comes with having a dog cuddled up against you at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raven & Archer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So where do our dogs sleep at night?  For starters, all of our puppies in training start by getting crate trained and will sleep at night in the crate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After our puppies in training master the crate, potty training, and display good house manners they are given the opportunity to sleep anywhere in our bedroom except in the bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raven and Archer have both graduated from sleeping in closed crates, but even with the opportunity to sleep outside the crate I often find them sleeping in their crates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linus & Stetson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

However, our pet dogs are a different story.  Linus is allowed to sleep on the bed and he has made the large king-sized pillow his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will usually start the night sleeping above our heads, but often times I wake up and Linus has taken residence in his crate for the majority of the night and morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stetson is our original Puppy In Training<\/a> raised to be a guide dog and career changed to mentor future guide and service puppies. Stetson was trained not to be on furniture including the bed all the way until he was career changed and transitioned from a working dog to a pet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that we’ve allowed him to be in the bed Stetson absolutely loves the bed! LOVES IT!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Does Your Dog Sleep At Night?<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Toby’s Rockin Bret Michaels Dog Bed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Dogs are social animals and so are people so it’s no wonder many of us like to allow our dog to sleep in our beds at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few pros and cons we thought of for allowing your dog to sleep in your bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n