To be very honest....

[Christine]

...are your Setters allowed to sleep in/on your beds? `Just asking.....

:-)

[Kristina]

Not to me it isn`t. My setter is not allowed to go on the bed unles I allow it (few times a year). She would never go on her own. I like dogs, but they should know their place.

[Christine]

I do agree with that on one hand! When I tell Vito to leave the bed, sofa, whatever, he leaves immediately! If he would`nt I wouldn`t allow him to have all these privileges. Our other dog would have abused these rights. Vito would never!

[Michelle Briggs]

I have 3 who sleep on th bed but only 2 in the photo

[lyn hathaway]

lovely photo michelle

[Lynn Spencer]

Yes, my two girls have always been allowed on our bed, in fact they're allowed on any bed, & the couch, in fact, they're allowed anywhere they like. They don't usually start off with us. Tess (Irish) sleeps on her own single bed in the study, whereas Megg, my English girl, sleeps on her own cushion bed in our room. Then, always during the night sometime, they both get into bed with us. We all love having cuddles in the morning, well I do, don't know about my husband (lol). It does get pretty squashy.

[lyn hathaway]

this is a nice picture lynn

[Karen McKelvey]

yes but as I have 6 not all at once.

[Gayle Sheridan]

Of course! But as Karen has said, we have six so only the two girls sleep with us at night but they all spend their days inside on the couch or where ever they prefer. We not only have cuddles in the morning we also have songs! The favourites at the moment are Sugar Sugar and Cinderella/Rockerfella. The perennials are Kisss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me and Daisy, Daisy Give me your answer do... And we are not mad!!

[Kerstin Thaens]

This discussion answers a lot of my questions and reassures me that I am a totally normal Setter owner. I have recently thought of asking if anybody knows how to get rid of the setters out of the bed because there is not enough room for all of us. I always end up in the space betwen the beds because my husband does not allow them getting near him. Sometimes the older bitch quarrels about the best position so that I am slowly getting a nervous wreck!
I have tried everything: put away the baskets and bought new cosy dogbeds and tried to persuade them to sleep there in front of my bed. First they seemed to be willing to do so but when I woke up during night we were all together in bed again! Summer time is not as bad as the rest of the year regarding the bedclothes. But autumn and winter is soon coming ... :-((

One setter is missing in my bed!

[Christine]

Dear Kerstin,
Do you really want to get rid of them at night? I don´t think so :-)
How about closing the bedroom-door at night? Just imagine how boring this would be :-)
I myself had to close mine as I had to get up really early the last two mornings and I do sleep better (deeper) when Vito`s not in my bed at nights when I have to get up early the morning after. Normaly I sleep longer and he can sleep wherever he likes to. The good thing is that he seems to accept everything I suggest. He got along well with the closed door: In the morning I found him sleeping and snoring on the couch in the living room. Thank god it`s Saturday tomorrow. So I will leave the door open again.

[Barbara Simpson]

My Irish sleeps on the floor (her choice) but my red and white Borzoi girl Traveler sleeps on the bed. It's more like she shares her bed with me! The other 3 Borzoi residing here sleep in super large wire crates as there's no more room on the bed. When I travel with the dogs, they take turns sleeping with me or on a 2nd bed in the hotel room. I always book a double room with 2 queen sized beds so that there's room on a bed for all 5 of the dogs and myself too of course. There are times when they all try to get on the same bed with me underneath the pile but eventually they sort things out and settle into their own space and go to sleep. Wouldn't have it any other way. I tend to draw some strange looks from people when they see me walking all 5 dogs at the same time. No one approaches me to chat however, probably afraid one or more of the dogs would eat them! LOL!! What they don't know is that they'd just lean on their legs for hugs and pats on the head.

[Patricia Bouch]

I lost my beautiful boy 8 weeks ago (feels like a life time) but yes, he was allowed to sleep on our bed. When he was a pup and until about 2yrs old he used to jump up and spend most of the night on the bed, but as he got bigger he realised he couldn't get as comfy as he wanted to anymore so he slowly gave up the idea but always came upstairs at night and slept on the floor at the bottom of the bed. I felt so guilty!! In the daytime whenever we went out shopping etc. we would come home and hear him jump off the bed to greet us! He always ran upstairs and "went to bed" when the hoover went on! So miss him.