[JadeD]

I grew up with a fox terrier sleeping with me. He slept with me from the time he was a few months old ( I was 12) until my parents sold our house and he had to go live with my older sister when I was 21 years old. Then he lived to be 19.

My husband did not like animals in our bed and for many years we had dogs that slept on the floor in our bedroom. My english setter somehow got to sleep at the foot of our bed though until she got sick. His english setter slept in a crate in our bedroom.

Then Teek came along and my husband told me the dog could stay as long as it slept in a crate. First night, I put him in his crate and went to bed. 2nd night I put him in his crate and went to bed. 3rd night my husband went downstairs and stuck me with walking both dogs, locking up the house, turning everything off. I do all this, put Teek in his crate and go downstairs and my husband is playing video games. I ask him if I can bring the dog down to hang out for a while since he is playing and I wanted to be on facebook. I tell him I will put him back in his crate before we go to sleep. Teek climbs into the bed with me and goes right to sleep. An hour later I fall asleep, and I told my husband to put the dog in his crate if I fall asleep. I wake up at 9:30 the next morning with Teek still curled up with me. I get up and ask my husband why he didn't put him in his crate and he says "he was so cute curled up asleep with you I couldn't."

We get the puppies and one puppy is ours and I am the one telling him to put the puppy in his crate because I don't want him to pee/poop on our bed. He is mostly housebroken now and does not get up in the night to pee/poop so he has slept with us all this week!

Now, we have 2 yorkies in our bed and the little one slept snuggled against my husband last night and he slept great. LOL

Sometimes you just have to try it to see if you like it. I sleep better with a dog snuggled against my leg for some reason.