Does Your Dog/Cat Sleep In Your Bed

[Razors Edge ★]

My dog does, and she is progressively taking up more and more of the bed (a king) despite staying the same size (~20lbs).  Last night, I rolled over, and got a kung fu kick to the nose.  Apparently, my movement disturbed her sleep and she needed to re-align herself.  My wife seems to protect her 50% of the bed, but my side is fair game for my pup to muscle in on me.

Of course, I talk to some other dog and cat owners and realize it could be far worse.  My pup doesn't sleep on my pillow (yet) and we only have one dog to contend with.

[Square Wheels]

The cat comes and goes, it's a cat.

[Longjohn ★]

The best dog we ever had always slep at my wife’s feet on the bed. Their was no room at the foot of the bed on my side. When he was old he couldn’t get up on the bed anymore so he slept on the floor by her side.

[Razors Edge ★]

2 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

The cat comes and goes, it's a cat.

I've had a few cats in my life, and they were surprisingly different in sleeping styles.  As a kid, we had one cat who would just curl up on the bottom of the bed and sleep soundly.  Her younger brother, though, would rarely spend time on the bed at night. Another cat would be ape-shit active during the night, and would probably get most of his exercise running and jumping during the night and then would sleep all day.

[jsharr ★]

Yes and Romeo will spend about half the night on top of the covers, usually by Martha's legs or feet and then he will move under the covers, sometimes without waking us up, and sleep by my feet or back.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 minute ago, jsharr said:

Yes and Romeo will spend about half the night on top of the covers, usually by Martha's legs or feet and then he will move under the covers, sometimes without waking us up, and sleep by my feet or back.

Ha - last night, besides the kung fu kick, my pup decided to relocate from above the covers to below the covers by coming up to me and nosing me until I woke up and lifted the covers.  No respect at all.

[Guest]

They both do. The dog will get in bed when we do then after a few hours she will sleep on the floor. She climbs back in around 4 am. The cat usually shows up around 4:30. 

[jsharr ★]

8 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Ha - last night, besides the kung fu kick, my pup decided to relocate from above the covers to below the covers by coming up to me and nosing me until I woke up and lifted the covers.  No respect at all.

Romeo does this to Martha... Mildred.

[maddmaxx ★]

One cat sleeps on womaxx's pillow and the other is welded to my hip all night.  The other two are youngest son's problem.

[Kzoo]

39 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

No respect at all.

We side with the pup.

 

[Prophet Zacharia]

As a rule, no. The dog used to, but the time he growled when I rolled over and disrupted him, he lost his bed privileges. He now sleeps on a bench next to our footboard. The cats would sleep on top of us if they were allowed, so they are closed out of the bedroom on all but an exceptionally rare occasion, when it doesn’t matter if they awaken us repeatedly at night.

[groupw]

When our border collie was alive, she would hop on the bed and sleep at the foot between us. After she got too old to hop up, we put a blanket on the floor by the bed for her. 
Our cat will come and sleep on the corner by my feet sometime during the night. If it’s really cold out, she will snuggle against my back. If we sleep too late in the morning for her pleasure, she will lay on top of my side or chest with her nose in my face and a loud purr!

[Airehead ★]

Yes and no. They like to get on when we first go to bed and then again around 5 am. Otherwise Ryan sleeps in a dog bed near Einstein and Lindy sleeps in his own room. 

[Kirby ★]

The cat comes and goes as he pleases.  He usually starts out in the bed, but then he goes on his adventures around the house.