That can be applied to humans as well, right? 
My Aunts dog has his own full-size human bed complete with quilt and pillows.
He will not go up to bed until you turn on the stairway light for him, even though you can see he is dog tired and nodding and he will not sleep downstairs during the night.
He has worked out how to get himself under the quilt with his nose poking out by the pillow.
I swear that that dog thinks he’s human.
When we first got Daisy-Bob, we couldn’t help but have her sleep with us. She is such a cute little lovable fuzz-ball.
However, we have now come to an understanding. Namely - if she promises not to squish my feet, I promise not to kick her.
These days when we go to bed, Daisy-Bob hops up on the foot of the bed and curls up. After I give her enough poking, to get her off my feet, she hops off and sleeps on the floor beside me, kind of between the bed and the wall - her own private little cave.
If I’m gonna sleep with a 125 pound bitch, it will be a human, not a dog. She can visit, and nap there while I’m awake, but when I go to sleep it’s alone.
My dog has a double-coat, kinda like a sled dog, so he sheds a lot. I’m not allergic or a hypochondriac so it doesn’t bother me. He sleeps on my bed every night. Really cute habit of sleeping just like a person, he lays down parallel to the edge and rests his head on the pillow. He used to get off after 20 or 30 minutes, now he is content to spend the entire night on the bed. There’s just me so there is plenty of room(30lb dog), and I certainly don’t mind the company.
Ok. I’m new to this. My dog likes to sleep wherever she pleases. I dont mind her. Although she likes to make me get up at least 3 times a night to let her in or out of different rooms. But i don’t think that your wife/girlfriend/mistress should let your cat sleep on your bed since you don’t enjoy it
I stopped sleeping with pets when I realized they never called the next day.
sigh
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
you put our dog on a bed, she will lie down by your feet and bite through the covers whenever you try to move. so she usually sleeps on the floor,
and a horse cant really fit in a bed, so thats kinda out…
Years ago I let my pampered pooch (had all shots & vaccinations, etc.) sleep on my bed for a couple of weeks.
He slept on the passenger side at the foot of the mattress. Shortly thereafter, when washing the sheets, I decided to also wash the mattress cover. When I removed it, there were these teeny weeny crawly (worms?, maggots?) on top of the mattress where he had been sleeping. EEeeeewwww! On My BED!
No more sleeping on bed, couch, chair or anything I mite sit my hiney on. I got him his own doggy bed & strickly enforced his sleeping there. Yuck.
Although largely controlled within the U.S., there are lots of parasites which can invade our bodies. I don’t know about dog-to-human ones, but I ain’t takin no chances.
Not poodles, they don’t hair,
they have a different fur.
So even some people that are allergics to dogs
can have poodles.
I hope you took your dog to the vet’s…worms are NOT fun.
My poor little kitty had them…they can cause the animal to lose weight.
I don’t think it occurred to me that he mite actually have worms. He was well cared for & got all his shots & all.
I just assumed he had teeny little poop germs that fell off his butt onto the covers and they eventually nestled down next to the mattress and magically worms were born. …hmmm.
Cats…no. Their purring and pushing on you is a pain. All my pets are outdoors now, but when I raised Pekingese they still slept in their bed not mine. I do have a friend that has this really spoiled dog that I love and she has slept with me when I stayed over. Believe it or not this dog saved me from a terrible headache. I was having severe headaches around 2a.m. every night that would last for hours and of course ruin my sleep. One night she must have sensed something because she woke me up about the time I should have gotten a headache so therefore I didn’t get one. Guess it’s your choice on letting your pet sleep with you.
Around my house it isn’t do I let the cats sleep with me, it is more like do the cats let me sleep with them? 
And yeah, you can catch lots of different kinds of parasites from your pets, but you would have to have really bad hygiene. I am a veterinary nurse, and if it were that easy to catch parasites, I’d have been in trouble a long time ago.
Ummm… No. The shots cover rabies and leukemia, distemper, etc. Stuff like that. Does not address worms. Dogs and cats get some kinds of worms from biting fleas. Give 'em a dose of worm pill and follow up with a good topical flea treatment: no worms, no fleas. Tiny little poop germs would not make worms unless your pet has been eating something that some bug laid its eggs in. Like, if you leave animal food outside so flies can… eyeeewwwww. This is getting gross. Please take your pet to the vet.
BTW: all three of my animals sleep with me. Dogzilla (IRL) sleeps under the covers next to me, head on her own pillow. Cats sleep on my feet and at my head, depending on how cold it is. Anything under 80 degrees, since this is Florida, constitutes a “cold” night for these spoiled brats.
I’ve decided I just don’t completely trust anyone who doesn’t sleep with their animals. It means you think of 'em as animals and not furry members of your family. It’s just me and you’re, of course, free to make your own choices. But know that if you refuse to let your animals sleep with you… I will think there’s something a little not-quite-right about that. As if you care what I think! 
Dogzilla, I don’t know or care if you are male or female, but I have to say, I think I love you!
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Michi, considering that Dogzilla posted in the PMS thread, I’ve got a pretty good guess as that she’s a female.
[sub]Please don’t ask why I opened the PMS thread. Would you believe I clicked on it by mistake?[/sub]
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I now know more than I want to about certain posters’ dating habits. :eek:
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Anyway…
I have no problem letting pets sleep on the same bed. HOWEVER, there was one time when I was sleeping over at a friend’s house, sound asleep, when SOMETHING GRABBED MY LEG.
This just scared the living shit out of me, and my leg jerked so abruptly and violently, that I’m a bit surprised that I didn’t pull a muscle. (I also thank god that my bladder wasn’t full, or else I’d have had to explain to my friend why I pissed all over his sleeping bag)
Anyway, I go from being sound asleep to panicky alert, and I become dimly aware of a ball of fur tearing off in the opposite direction. And I belatedly realize that what I just felt was NOT the grasp of a serial killer about to mutilate me, but a harmless kitty who happened to step on my leg.
Poor kitty. (I hadn’t had a pet in a long time, and certainly wasn’t used to being walked on, or having one sit or sleep on top of me.)
Previous posters have mentioned cats walking around on, or eating from, their kitchen table. I’ve been known to let a friend’s cat eat from a piece of cake I was eating. My friends were totally grossed out when I ate from the same piece that the cat did.
“Dan, how could you let the cat do that? They lick their butts, you know!”
“Thanks, Lisa, really needed that little visual. Love ya.”
:rolleyes:
I was once sleeping over at a friend’s house and I was in that half-asleep, half-awake state when this THING popped up in my face. I screamed. It turned out to be her dog!
With my first cat (named dwyr incidentally) I was determined not to let him get into the habit of sleeping on “my” bed. Said resolution lasted oh, about an hour I think. When that little fuzzy kitten finally fell asleep that first night, curled up on my neck and purring, I knew I was sunk. He’s been sleeping with me off and on, when he chooses to, for the past 14 years now. As I acquired further felines I just bought a larger size bed and they all learned to watch out when I roll over. We’re happy with it.