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01-20-2011, 10:42 AM | #1 |
Owned by my yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Coats, NC
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| Uh-Oh! What do you think of this? Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie in Your Bed Can Kill You
__________________ My little dog-a heartbeat at my feet. -Edith Wharton jeanne BrooklynBenjamin |
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01-20-2011, 10:52 AM | #2 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Texas, USA
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| I am not a medical expert... but i believe as long as we take care of our babies and keep them clean and healthy (an we all now YT parents are always making sure we do), the benefits of them sleeping with us are greater than the risks.. IMHO I cannot go back to sleeping w/o Chloe!! sorry..
__________________ Chloe's and Melody's mommy... My babies are the best thing that ever happened to my life... |
01-20-2011, 11:02 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 12K Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Council Bluffs Iowa
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| I think it's a risk I'm willing to take. Everything we do has it's risks. I'm not willing to live in a bubble. |
01-20-2011, 11:02 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 4000 Club Member | If you've got an compromised immune system, then you are at higher risk for everything. If you are healthy and your pets are healthy, then I would think the over all risk of you picking anything up from them is remote. No one is getting my cuddle buddies out of my bed.
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01-20-2011, 11:12 AM | #5 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Fremont, CA, USA
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| We are at risk for contracting all kinds of things in our daily lives - it's a risk just eating sushi! (which I love by the way!). There is NO WAY I'm kicking out Rio and Bullet from our bed!
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01-20-2011, 11:12 AM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2010 Location: Southern,CA,
Posts: 247
| Sleeping w/your dog The article is good TO A POINT, but I don't think it applies to most of us, it talks about people w/compromised immune systems or kids, people w/open sores, bad hygiene and where your dog would get "bad bugs" ie: bad food, eating poop, fleas or worms. Now as responsible caring "parents" we all are we would never let our babies do such things like rolling in something stinky (see me running screaming w/dog in hand to the tub to wash him), lol I mean stinky things are so much fun. AND as if we had a choice as to whether or not the dog slept in our bed or with us. The article gives good points to be aware of. Thanks for the info, we can never know too much.
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01-20-2011, 11:30 AM | #7 | ||
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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-I have laundry OCD, and love doing my laundry. I love the clean, fresh smell. -The more frequent I wash, the less dander from both of us I'll find in my bed and belongings. The less aggressive my allergic reaction. It's been working for over a year. Quote:
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01-20-2011, 11:34 AM | #8 |
Owned by my yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Coats, NC
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| I know.....when i read it the first thing i said was "oh well"...my babies and the snuggle time we have at night in bed is very precious to me..(and hubby!)...I just cant give it up!!
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01-20-2011, 11:38 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: New York
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| Sammy comes into bed in the morning for some cuddlebug time. I would not stop doing that no matter what! |
01-20-2011, 11:55 AM | #10 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Where the deer and the antelope play
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| The Title is Over Kill! I quit reading half way through. There are waaaay to many variables to that article to apply it to "all" or "most". Everything they talked about "could" happen with "close contact" with your pet not just at bedtime, and even then conditions have to be right. Are we supposed to live in a bubble? It was really more of a common sense article. Also, it is hard to compare a small primarily indoor lap dog, to a large free roaming farm dog in terms of where they have been allowed to roam and play to pick up parasites and diseases to spread. I find it hard to beileve they could trace MRSA back to a dog's lick. That is speculation not fact. I was a dirty, barefoot running, animal loving kid who would rather spend the night in the barn with the animals than my own bed and I am pretty darn healthy. Whoa! I think that article touched a nerve. I say, add another they keep me warm! LOL.
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01-20-2011, 11:57 AM | #11 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alabama, etc.
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| Oh, well, guess we will just have to die happy! Besides that, Toto would never allow us to sleep without her!
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01-20-2011, 12:25 PM | #12 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Indiana
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| I'll keep doing it...lol Been doing it off and on for 14 years. |
01-20-2011, 12:36 PM | #13 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Byron Center
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| Lets see my last dog lived to be 16 1/2 years old and the one before that was 13 years and now Pixie who is 2 1/2 years. Have all sleeped on our bed. I guess there are happier ways to die. My furbabies have always slept on our bed and will do so in the future.
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01-20-2011, 12:43 PM | #14 | |
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01-20-2011, 01:10 PM | #15 |
Crazy about Kacee! Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kansas
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| Can you just imagine the hurt look on their faces, if we didn't let them in "their" bed again?
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