Cats/dogs on the bed - what are your thoughts?

rising_from_the_ashes

MarilynMonroe wrote: »

Your dog looks cosy enough on the couch anyway!

Yup!:rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

So I compromise. He's not allowed on the surfaces, but I clean them before cooking every time, as the odds are that he's been on them in any case.

I'm a bit like this and while they won't go on the worktops when I'm there ..... I know they'll do it when I'm not!

FattyBettyBoo wrote: »

Its not only that she smells and moults all over the place .... its the horrendous snoring that keeps me awake even when she's downstairs in the kitchen!

:rotfl:I'd forgotten about the snoring - 'cos Maisie's downstairs it's not too bad (but I can still hear her!) ...... I'd forgotten how much noise Ben made lying on his bed (which was at the side of my bed):)

valk_scot

Lancslass1982 wrote: »

We got a little rescue kitten about 10 weeks ago. She was incredibly shy when we first got her and didn't come upstairs for weeks. We thought nothing of closing the bedroom door on her, until one night she cried and cried outside the door to get in and scratched up the carpet. We have no choice but to let her in the bedroom at night, as she has already done far too much damage to the carpet outside the door, after only a couple of nights shut out.

I really didn't think i'd ever be ok with a cat on my bed, but now I really don't mind at all. I even think it's cute when she comes and wakes me up in the morning with a nose rub!!

I don't let her in the kitchen though and I'm never too impressed when she's scaling the curtains!!

She's clearly decided you're her new mum. Be honoured!


The only place our cats are actively discouraged from going is the kitchen worktop. They get a hiss, a loud clap of the hands and shouted at to get down if I see them do it and this mostly works. I know they sometimes go up there if I'm not around though. Big Cat only goes up if he smells prawns (I don't leave food out, no, that's the other purpose of a microwave, a cat-proof storage area!). Middle Cat goes up there if he's chasing moths, he's even been seen up on top of the cooker hood. Little Cat goes up there to steal the scrubby sponge for the dishes. You can train them but only up to a point, they're chancers if they think they can get away with it. I make a point of washing down the food prep areas just before I use them.

FattyBettyBoo

My Mum had an idea that worked a treat for keeping her very furry dog downstairs. She gave him a bath every time he dared climb the stairs ... soon stopped him!

We had cats when I was growing up and there's not much worse than fuzzy undercarriage hairs on your pillow!!

luvchocolate

I had a lovely cat, I always put something on the bed for him to sleep on so not on my bedding, but that meant if I was getting ready to go out I could not lay clothes on the bed as he had been trained to not lie in the bedding!! can't win but as I said lovely pet:j

catkins

No, I love my cats and dog but they are not even allowed in the bedroom. I don't want pet hairs on the bedding plus have a fairly expensive wallpaper on the walls and know they would scratch at it.

Each to their own though. My dog is allowed on the settees which I know a lot of people don't like

geri1965_2

My cats have equal status to me & the OH so they are allowed on the sofas and the bed. They are not allowed to walk on the worktops but then neither are we!

tibawo

A definate no from me only because of a bad experience...

my BIL dog is part of the family so much so that my DD2 invited her to her bday! Anyway the dog is getting old and usually goes under my stairs when she comes. So not a problem.
At the end of party BIL shouted for her and nothing. Numerous family members started putting on coats etc to go and look for her. The she suddenly appeared from upstairs. i wasn't too bothered as when she has stayed over she sleeps on floor at bottom of my bed.
My girls decided they were sleeping in my bed so i jumped in dd2's.
In the middle of night my chest got really tight and had massive asthma attack and was still debating to go a and e as nothing seemed to be easing it.
To cut a long story short we sussed out the dog had been on bed and although i've not had an allergic reaction to dog hair since little it had set me off!!

zaksmum

Wonder why some people have said a cat's ok on the bed but definitely not a dog?

My dogs can go on the bed anytime they want.

They are clean and flea free, so why not? They don't sleep on the bed with us but can nip upstairs for a snooze on it if they want.

They both get their timing spot on for a siesta when the afternoon sun's coming through the bedroom window onto the bed, too.

HeatherintheHills

How do you go to sleep without a cat purring beside you?

Mara69

I've not voted as none of the options apply but we have our dogs up for a cuddle just before we go to sleep and again in the morning. They don't stay on the bed overnight though, as there is simply not enough room.