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Originally Posted by Amanda7  This is great stuff! The part about the king-size bed really made me laugh. Why do they all sleep perpendicular and stretched out to the max? We wake up stiff from being crunched up at the edge of the bed, while my two yorkies have the whole center......something is very wrong here..lol |
Many years ago, I had a Great Dane. He used to sleep with my (then) 5 YO daughter on a twin bed. He would start off at the foot of the bed, with lots of room. Then he would scoot higher up, parallel to her, but between her and the wall. Then he would straighten out his legs put his feet against the wall and PUSH.
Leslie, of course, would end up on the floor. He then had the whole bed to himself, and he would rearrange himself on the bed, head on her pillow, and snooze the rest of the night away. I can't begin to tell you how many mornings I would go in to wake her up and find her soundly asleep on the floor!
It did have one very good side effect: she rapidly learned to keep the area around her bed toy-free so when she fell out, she didn't break anything
I've always wondered why dogs sleep perpendicular instead of parallel. The only thing I can think of is that then, they know where BOTH "parents" are. I put a satin covered pillow down by the foot of the bed, where their stairs are. Most of the time, they'll come up and give us a sniff or two, then go back to the pillow to sleep. That way, we don't have to fear squishing them.