I need a bigger bed

[Kiger]

Little Kato likes to sleep between hubby and me - only thing is he's not so little anymore. He also sleeps with all four legs straight out and locked in place providing maximum sleeping area for him. I actually experimented with him last night while he was sound asleep - legs stayed rigid, couldn't bend 'em, and was able to rotate him onto his back while all four feet stuck straight up in the air. I can only assume that this is his anti-squishing mechanism at work. :lol:

[Guest Anonymous]

no kidding! with 3 min pins on the bed, hubby and I barely have any room for ourselves...

:D

[Mary's Mama]

:lol: :lol:

Oh yes, we only have the one jack sleeping with us but we stil need a king size bed. And my hubby and I are both small (<150 lbs). Mary sleeps with her legs straight out also. It cracks me up. Once she hits her dead sleep I can move her to just about anywhere on the bed, but she only weighs 15 lbs :wink:

[Guest Anonymous]

Kenzo is the SAME way! He's either got his back pressed against you or his feet in your back. :roll:

Kika just curls up in a little ball.

I'm thinking, even with a king size bed we wouldn't have enough room! :o

Umm, Newfiemom, how do you do it???

[Guest Anonymous]

We taught our girls the command "bottom of the bed" to teach them to warm our feet properly. :D Also, we know we will have more Springers in the bed in the future so there will need to be room for them! Now the cat of course sleeps where ever on the bed he wants (which really irks the girls), and my son comes and crawls in the bed around 6am. So with 2 dogs, a cat, a kid, plus hubby and I......they need to make a new size called the "Animal Friendly Special" caused the king sized just ain't working! :o

Later,
Trinity
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[mouseatthebusstop]

WE HAVE AND SAME PROBLEM WITH PADDY WE TOOK HIM UP TO BED WITH US WHEN GLADIS WAS INSEASON AUGUST/SEPTEMBER TO KEEP THEM APART NOW WE CAN NOT GET HIM OUT. HE IS 48 lbs HE IS IN THE MIDDLE LEGS STRETCHED OUT :D HOPE HE DOES NOT GROW ANY MORE

[bk_blue]

BK sleeps next to me with his head on the pillow, it's very cute but when he's asleep he sprawls out and takes up most of the bed and is hell to move because he's a dead weight when he's asleep. Then he might stretch out his legs and scratch me accidentally, OUCH on bare skin... he burps and farts as well, it's not unlike sharing a bed with some boys I know. :wink: but his cuddles make up for it!

[Bensam]

More MIN PINS! Look out board, we will take over the world :drinking:
Welcome! Friend and I would go showing for weekends, her with her three Shibas and my three. We classed the overnight weather as 'one dog night' - two dog night - three dog night' depending how many we had under the blankets to keep us warm!
Hint here, girls - besides yourself, who else takes up most of the bed? This doesn't apply to Newfiemon, she has that worked out already :lol:

[Bensam]

BK..WHERE'S 'BK'??????

[bk_blue]

here I am!!! Bk the dog is- well, where is usually is- on my bed, asleep, or looking out the window!!! :)

[bk_blue]

Bensam napisał(a):

Hint here, girls - besides yourself, who else takes up most of the bed? :lol:

OK well seeing as my bed is only a double (it's an antique, I swear if I ever find someone I like enough to live with, we are getting a kingsize bed), I take up about half-3/4 of it if I stretch out (best thing about being single- you get to sleep on the diagonal!). BK also likes to take up half to 3/4 of the bed. It is a constant battle as to who sleeps where, he likes to sleep where I sleep, I don't like sleeping where he sleeps because there's too much dog hair! As for anyone else... my best friend sleeps where bk sleeps if she stays over (I change the sheets as nobody wants to sleep in dog hair do they?!), and most of my other girlfriends do too, they all love my bed because the mattress is really comfy. I find it really hard to sleep with anyone else, I like having my bed to myself!!! It's ok if you have a boy to cuddle but even that's annoying... my ex used to like to sleep pretty much draped over me like a carpet. Now I like cuddling but I like sleeping too and I can't do that with a hairy triathlete squashing me! :roll:

[Bensam]

lLook to the left - Did you wash him, did he shrink, did his colour wash off,
did he divide like an ameoba (sp)????????????????????

[bk_blue]

ah no :oops: :oops: :oops: he has vacated the building for a while. :wink:
My avatar is now of Oscar and Fritz, my grandpa's old dachshunds (the fat twins). Oscar is the beautiful chocolate coloured one on the left. It's got crappy resolution though, if I enlarge it it's all blurry. It really is a good photo though, but I might have to rescan it or something.

[Bensam]

OK, they are lovely, but not YOU! I tend to identify the dogs with the name, not the name with the dogs. :P Have met people who show dogs in other settings and without their dog in tow, darned if I can remember their name. Not a nice habit, but I'll blame alzhiemers (sp?) :roll:
I've just GOT to get a scanner, then I can confuse myself :lol:

[bk_blue]

LOL you sound like the people at the dog park, who only know your dog's name and talk to your dogs!! :lol:

I thought I would rotate my pics, since I do talk about the "sausages" a little bit and even though none of them have ever come close to being as smart, loving, gentle and cute as BK, they're not TOO bad! Next I might put the Basset there. Now SHE was beautiful. The best dog we had before BK IMO (though Mum would disagree, she just loved her Cocker to bits).

[Kiger]

Well tonight he fell off. He must have been sleeping on my husband's feet when my husband rolled over and pushed him right off the end of the bed. I heard a WHUMP and found him still half asleep and wondering why he was on the floor. :lol:

[Guest Anonymous]

Kiger napisał(a):

Well tonight he fell off. He must have been sleeping on my husband's feet when my husband rolled over and pushed him right off the end of the bed. I heard a WHUMP and found him still half asleep and wondering why he was on the floor. :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Oh the memories...

[Nancy B]

newfiemom napisał(a):

Try having four dogs weighing between 120-195 lbs. get in bed with you. No wonder I always wake up with a back ache!!! :D

OK, I thought we had a tight fit in a king size bed with two Dobes, a 58# and 74#, but you've certainly got that beat!!! :)

[Guest Anonymous]

Oh K that is such a poem!!!

[eric]

My wife and I used to have a double bed, which was always fine until Sam got bigger.

After a few sleepless nights with rough dog pads pushed into my back, we went out and got a king size bed. The bugger would actually put his feet into my back and PUSH. I'm crowded, roll over. People think I'm nuts when I say we got a bigger bed because of the dogs.

Travis usually stays on the bed for about half an hour or so, but then get off and sleeps on my wife's side. Sam will usually spend the night between us, but he usually folds his legs up and tucks his back paws in so he's pretty compact and doesn't wake us.

Its funny waking up in the middle of the night and the whole bed is shaking. Always takes me a few second to realize Sam is having a dream and twitching...

[Kiger]

ROFLMAO at the poem :lol: :lol:

People think I'm nuts when I say we got a bigger bed because of the dogs.

I used to think my parents were nuts for buying a king size because their mini schnauzer took up too much room - now I know the feeling.

[Nancy B]

Whitney and Mason actually start off sleeping in their own beds in the sitting room off our bedroom every night. Sometime during the middle of the night they come into bed between us. This suits us....it allows us to get to sleep without having to "fight" for a piece of bed. The kids know that getting up in bed with us is "fair game" once we've gone to sleep. For two big dogs they're amazingly careful when they come up. You see, they know that if they wake my husband they'll have to start all over sleeping in their own beds until he's asleep again!

BTW, Whit doesn't just sleep between us. When she gets up on the bed she heads up toward the pillows and finds the top of the covers. She slips her head under the covers and "burrows" her whole body down under! <G>

Oh yes, I loved the poem too!

[Carolk9s]

Brittany will come up on the bed for pats and a cuddle then jump down and go to an empty bed to sleep. Jesse will come up, might stay 1/2 the night then get down. Candy likes to snuggle up HARD against me, many times tucking herself into my throat/chest area or right under my chin. I feel guilty when I'm squirming around trying to get comfy. She's gives me such a look... One night I went to sleep with my back against the big pillows as usual. If I don't sleep this way, I wake up VERY sore. Well, I woke up a few hours later, totally turned around, lying on my opposite side, SHE was curled up within my big pillows! The little sneak.

[eggrolyn1223]

Duck doesn't usually sleep with me, but once when my dad wasn't home, i let her on the bed and went to sleep..Mine's a TWIN bed. 8) She slept next to me, decided it was too small a space, and stepped right on top of my stomach(woke me up then and there), and then she just flopped down and...slept.ON ME :o When I woke up AGAIN, i was all cramped up, and I wonder how I happened to be stuck in a tiny little corner while Duck stretched out with her head on my pillow! :lol:

[Guest Anonymous]

you all are fortunate to have dogs nice enough to be allowed to sleep on your beds. lady likes sleeping in her crate safe and secure and she likes her space. dresden is very pushy as it is and the couple times i let her sleep in my bed which is antique (about three fourths the size of a single ie teeny tiny) she got this attitude like she owned the whole house. so she sleeps in her crate in my room.