LOL...'Eight is Enough', eh? (Who here remembers that show? I think I just dated myself!)
Wow, I bet that means a LOT of lead separators! 0_o
In Alaska, there's a child's story called the 6-Dog Night...it basically talks about how many dogs you need sleeping on the bed with you when it gets bitterly cold in winter. I think it was on Reading Rainbow years ago.
Jenna has always wanted to be an 'on the bed' dog ever since we got her this spring.
But when she first came home, she was supposed to be my daughter's dog, so we kept her in a penned area in the kitchen so they'd have an opportunity to bond.
Unfortunately, she was also a climber, so it wasn't hard for her to vault the pen sides and then you'd hear the little 'ticky-ticky' of toenails on the floor headed your way....those big brown eyes became harder and harder to resist.
Now that she's basically my dog, and follows me everywhere, nappy time has to be wherever mummy is. This means in a cuddly cup on the chair in the kitchen, or in the computer chair behind me, or on/in my bed: blankets and pillows are all fair game here.
She did start off by sleeping at the foot...then moved gradually up the bed until she got to around the top of my head on the pillow one night, (much to my cat's chagrin), but now she has to be under the blankets where she can get at my kneecaps, which get a thorough washing each night before she passes out. (It's part of what puts her to sleep, works better than a bedtime story!)
The worst part for me is I am instantly awake any time she moves, for fear of crushing her. And when she has to get up around 2 AM for a drink of water, I have to get up with her since she won't go by herself.
And she used to growl at the cats if they tried to get up on the bed too, but she found it's more effective to pick out a toy and go with it in her mouth, tail wagging furiously, for a play invite. That gets rid of the cats fast! The looks on their faces are priceless as they scarper!
Eh...it's all good. Jenna and I would be lost without each other now. The little quirks turned into perks rather easily.