Gracie slept with me from the first night. I have to admit I have never crate trained. Back when I was growing up it was unheard of. Either you confined you pup in the kitchen or you tied it up out back. Well, the kitchen thing was fine during the day when no one could watch the pup but no one wanted to hear a puppy crying all night in the kitchen so I was the one who usually had the puppy in my bed.
I have to say the invention of puppy pee pads is a great improvement over the newspaper thing. Gracie almost always slept all night when she was a puppy and when she did wake up I would put her on the pee pad and we went back to bed. She now has pet steps so she gets up and down off the bed as she pleases. One side of my bed is against the wall and I blocked her from getting to the other side. I put one of those body pillows along the edge of the bed where it was up against the wall to make sure she wouldn't slip down off the edge.
I'd guess more than half the people on YT let their dogs sleep with them while the rest prefer not to have their dogs in the bed. Our family always trained our dogs to have run of the house. Even when I worked outside the home our dog had run of the house once he was house trained. He stayed in the kitchen when we were not home until he was totally trust worthy. |