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Uh-Oh! What do you think of this?:( Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie in Your Bed Can Kill You |
I am not a medical expert... but i believe as long as we take care of our babies and keep them clean and healthy (an we all now YT parents are always making sure we do), the benefits of them sleeping with us are greater than the risks.. IMHO I cannot go back to sleeping w/o Chloe!! sorry.. :p |
I think it's a risk I'm willing to take. Everything we do has it's risks. I'm not willing to live in a bubble. |
If you've got an compromised immune system, then you are at higher risk for everything. If you are healthy and your pets are healthy, then I would think the over all risk of you picking anything up from them is remote. No one is getting my cuddle buddies out of my bed. |
We are at risk for contracting all kinds of things in our daily lives - it's a risk just eating sushi! (which I love by the way!). There is NO WAY I'm kicking out Rio and Bullet from our bed! |
Sleeping w/your dog The article is good TO A POINT, but I don't think it applies to most of us, it talks about people w/compromised immune systems or kids, people w/open sores, bad hygiene and where your dog would get "bad bugs" ie: bad food, eating poop, fleas or worms. Now as responsible caring "parents" we all are ;) we would never let our babies do such things like rolling in something stinky (see me running screaming w/dog in hand to the tub to wash him), lol I mean stinky things are so much fun. AND as if we had a choice as to whether or not the dog slept in our bed or with us. The article gives good points to be aware of. Thanks for the info, we can never know too much. |
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I know.....when i read it the first thing i said was "oh well"...my babies and the snuggle time we have at night in bed is very precious to me..(and hubby!)...I just cant give it up!! :) |
Sammy comes into bed in the morning for some cuddlebug time. I would not stop doing that no matter what! |
The Title is Over Kill! I quit reading half way through. There are waaaay to many variables to that article to apply it to "all" or "most". Everything they talked about "could" happen with "close contact" with your pet not just at bedtime, and even then conditions have to be right. Are we supposed to live in a bubble? It was really more of a common sense article. Also, it is hard to compare a small primarily indoor lap dog, to a large free roaming farm dog in terms of where they have been allowed to roam and play to pick up parasites and diseases to spread. I find it hard to beileve they could trace MRSA back to a dog's lick. That is speculation not fact. I was a dirty, barefoot running, animal loving kid who would rather spend the night in the barn with the animals than my own bed and I am pretty darn healthy. Whoa! I think that article touched a nerve. I say, add another they keep me warm! :D LOL. |
Oh, well, guess we will just have to die happy! ;) Besides that, Toto would never allow us to sleep without her! :sidesplt: |
I'll keep doing it...lol Been doing it off and on for 14 years. :) |
Lets see my last dog lived to be 16 1/2 years old and the one before that was 13 years and now Pixie who is 2 1/2 years. Have all sleeped on our bed. I guess there are happier ways to die. My furbabies have always slept on our bed and will do so in the future. |
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Can you just imagine the hurt look on their faces, if we didn't let them in "their" bed again? |
;) i would not be able to sleep if poppy was not with me :) |
I think the article makes some good points for people whose immunity might be compromised but I would rather run the risk than go to sleep without Buster. And to go without Yorkie kisses would be unbearable. |
I guess we have to rely on common sense and good hygiene. I'm going with my guess that Dinky does more to reduce the health issues associated with stress. Waking up with my sweetie, taking him out, and going back to sleep on a Saturday morning with the cuddler is good for me. |
My husband just told me about this article and glad you posted the link here, so I could read it. Interesting, but nothing is going to change here. ;) |
The article makes me glad I homecook for my girls, but nothing is going to convince me not to sleep in "their" bed. ;) Sheila |
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I sleep with at least 5 cats and 2 dogs on my bed. There is always someone writting things about things that are bad for your health. If it's not pets it's food or what you drink or what you wear. If you pay attention to everything you might as well live in a closet. |
I think that the article, despite the hyperboles, is good in so far as that "immuno suppressed folks" should exercise extreme caution, or simply don't allow the pup to sleep in bed with you. Immuno suppresed ppl are a bigger share of the population than you might think. Probably around 15-20 % or so. but I do feel that if you aren't (immuno suppressed) and you do all that beautiful care we do for our Yorkies, there shouldn't be a problem. |
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Well well well....another one huh...hmmm....I think I woul;d rather die in bed with my Gizmo than get hit by that person texting while driving, or from all the additives in the food from the grocery store, or even from the worst place of all...a visit to any hospital...germs galore. So I choose to die with gizmo curled up next to me in his bed, we even let hubby join us....lol:kiss::kiss2::teethysmi |
I believe that it is a good thing to die happy. My dogs make me happy and if they make me die, then I die happy. |
I really guess if that was true I'd been gone a long time ago. I can't count the number of nights I slept snuggled up next to a pregnant mare waiting for her foal's arrival. No telling what other cirtters were sleeping with us :) |
I think I will take my chances. :) |
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