wants to sleep with me

[celstu1]

Mine started sleeping with me at about 6 months old. They are now about 4.5 years old and one sleeps under the covers between my legs. I always worried I was going to kill him but he goes there when I'm sleeping so I can't stop him. apparently though I must subconsciously know he's there... I've never hurt him. My bigger guy sleeps on the pillow next to me most of the time. They do have a bed for them ON my bed with blankets for THEM that I start out the night with them both in THEIR bed and covered with blankets. LOL

[Lee B]

Originally Posted by kate07

My bed is pretty high and after my little girl jumping out of my arms and breaking her leg I'm not sure if I would feel comfortable having her sleep with me in the bed. She's been in her XPen with her doggy bed since her accident. The first night I got her home she fell asleep curled up in a little ball next to me on my coach (it was the sweetest thing ever!) and was fine and she also took a nap with me once and my fiance in our bed and was okay too. I know she loved it, and she always wants to cuddle, but I'm just so scared she'd jump down and hurt herself again. I got stairs, so maybe once she's all healed and better from her broken leg, and trained with the stairs, I MAY let her..I just hear horror stories too much though about the little ones jumping down off beds and breaking their legs to much to feel completely comfortable with it. My little girl is only 3 months+ and 2 pounds a few ozs. and will be about 3.5lbs fully grown so she's a little fragile one.

My bed is high, maybe 30" or so off the ground. I have a set of 5-step stairs for them in the bedroom so they can go up and down by themselves. In the living room, the furniture is arranged in an L shape, with 3-step stairs at one end. Puddie is a bit bigger, so he just hops up and down from the seat of the couch these days. Bella uses the stairs for both up and down. In fact, I can trap her on the furniture by taking the stairs away ... she won't jump. I really wasn't too worried about stairs until I joined here and realized how fragile their knees are, so I got stairs as soon as I could (stairs are less expensive than LP surgery ). I only had to teach one of the dogs to use the stairs, and he taught the others

My next "thing" will be to put a doggy door in the bottom of my bedroom door. I have to leave the door open a crack so they can come and go to hit the piddle pad, or patrol the perimeter or whatever it is they do at night. But my family has moved back in, and it would be nice to be able to close the door completely while allowing the dogs access.