Heyo bloggers, yay it's finally keyboard time for me again *wiggles butt while doing happy dance* I heart my momma so much because she lets me snuggle in bed with her. Yups, lots of snuggle time for me and her. I loves it lots. I remember the first two nights, momma only let me snuggle on top of her while she was reading and then I had to go in the crate. BOoOoOoO. Then I keep whining instead of sleeping so momma put my bankie on the bed and I snuggle up to her and didn't move for hours. Had to show her it was better to have me in bed. Momma said she slept so much better with a real doggie snuggling up to her. 

Now I get to sleep there all the time. I even gets to snuggle under the covers and sometimes use one of Momma's pillows. She even lets me bring hippo to bed or that sock I *stole* from the clothes pile. So nice of her. I even get to take up most of the bed, guess my cute mug is irresistible. Hmmm, must explode that super power further. 

Momma sleeps weird hours. She goes to bed super late and I have to sleep on the sofa or chair in the office until she is ready to go, but then she sleeps in a little during the day so I gets enough rest and snuggle time in. Sometimes...okay most of the time, Momma is like me. We no wanna wake up and just want to sleep more. When that happens I takes momma's arm hostage and instead of getting up she goes back to sleep. Hehe. But then I want up cause there's stuff to see out the window. I might be missing something very important by sitting at the computer so toddles.

Finley taking a nap with her stuffed dog pal

using the purple bag as a pillow

the blanket must be a comfier pillow

or maybe the purse is

Finley with the loot we collected from 3 PetSmarts, 1 Petcetera and 2 PetValus
includes 1 bag of food, a box of dog biscuits, Northern Biscuits dog biscuits, Fruitable, Kong toy stuffers in peanut butter and bacon n cheese, water bottle for her crate, soft pin hair brush, a leash, three collars, a clicker, Blue Buffalo wet dog food (the chicken dinner kind for christmas), Zoe sticks, Zuke's mini in peanut butter (3 bags), Blue Buffalo soft treats (2 different kinds) and a Greenies Dental Chew

One of my favourite things to do with Finley is cuddle up in bed and sleep. I never got used to sleeping alone after my old dog died. He used to sleep curled up at my feet most nights and let me tell you, stuffed animals just aren’t the same.  

It was only natural that I see if Finley would like to sleep on my bed too. I did try getting her to sleep in her crate though starting the first night she was with us. I even left the light on so that she could see me. She was very clingy those first few days and would get very nervous when she couldn’t see me. She whined a lot of though and woke up every time I shifted in bed.  It almost broke my heart but I was strong – that night. My resolved lasted all of two or three nights. Now she won’t sleep anywhere else and I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.

I had read that if the dog sleeps on the bed with you, it could make training them harder or impossible. I never really noticed any real problems when training her or working on some of her behaviour issues, other than the barking one but that will be something that takes time and lots of patience. So I came up with a compromise, I’m teaching her that she has to be invited onto the bed before she can be on it, and that is whether or not it’s time to go to bed.

I removed the crate from my room and put a nice doggie bed in its place, so when it’s time to go to bed, she has to sit or lie there until I tell her it’s alright to come snuggle up. This behaviour did take a while to stick since she didn’t know how to stay so we worked on stay and since then it’s gotten better.

If she comes into the bed before I’m ready for her, I get up and put her back on her doggie bed. It gets pretty annoying when she won’t listen and I have to do this 4 or 5 times, especially when I want to go to sleep. Some nights, she thinks it’s a game and wants to play instead of going to sleep, though usually she can be pacified with her hippo (a stuff animal that she loves).

Recently, she’s taken a liking to snuggling under blankets. I don’t let her in between the sheets with me since I have some minor issues with dirt and germs, so instead she snuggled between the two blankets on my bed or under her blanket. It’s really cute to watch her arrange the blanket so that it’s perfectly comfortable.

Readers, is it a good or bad idea to let your pets sleep in your bed, and do you let them (if you have any)?