The friend who I got Voodoo from always shared his bed with her.  However when I got her, I crate trained her as I thought I would be returning her and he was very ill - so could no longer share his bed.  The day I got the news that my friend was not going to make it I let her sleep in my bed for the first time.

That worked fine as long as my b/f didn't come over.  The king size bed is not big enough for the 4 of us (Voodoo, b/f, Raggedy Ann (my cat) and me).  Voodoo is such a bed hog that my b/f ended up in the guest room that night.

So Voodoo was told to go back to her crate.  My preference is to leave the crate open so I have tried really hard to train that the crate is her bed.  For the most part she is really good about it - except when she's not.  She puts herself to bed every night but sometimes she sneaks to my bed in the middle of the night.  If she wakes me up, I send her back.  If not she gets away with it.

Of course she is invited up in the morning.  So here is a pic (don't tell the b/f it's here, not his very best moment) - I've also attached a pic of Voodoo demonstrating how she kicked the b/f out of bed - lol.

Wow sorry I've written a novel in response to a yes/no question!

OH MY doesn't everyone LOL! This is Einstien at 8 weeks.

-- Edited by luvmybabies at 20:27, 2008-02-27

Well, mine are not allowed to sleep in our bed. Hubby put his foot down on that one single thing. There is simply not enough room. We tried to allow Crystal in bed with us years ago. But she had a running dream and kicked hubby in the face. LOL--he loved his girl and was not mad. But decided that clearly such a situation was not going to work out.

If hubby is away overnight, all the Boxers sleep with me. And in the morning when he goes to work, they sleep with me for that extra hour before I get up. All traveling for dog shows that require a hotel stay will have the dogs in bed with me.

But the typical place the PawPrint gang sleeps is anywhere else in the house they want ;)

Daisy sleeps with me half the time. Usually she will start out under the cover laying across my legs. Then she will either get too warm and want out or moms legs go to sleep and I make her move then she will either go sleep on her pillow right next to me on the floor or it's out to the spare bed or couches. SHe makes her rounds, haha! When I leave for work she is right next to DH and does not leave his side until I get home (I leave at 5:30 am) or until he leaves and puts her in her crate.

When Rob still sailed all the dogs slept with me when he was gone. But now that he has a land job, it is impossible to let 5 sleep with us. The "twins" sleep in their crates because they are not trustworthy yet. The rest sleep where they want. We do have dog beds in our room if they want to use them.

When DH is gone, the The Boys usually sleep with me.
Everyone has their specific place on the bed:
Zammi at my feet, Tanner next to my shoulders and Pilot by my side.
They are all very good when I want more room, all I have to do is say the magic words,
"Moose, Moose," and they all move.
This is the way my DD at 18 months just to tell our first Girl, Shiva, to move. It stuck with all of our subsequent Boxers!
When DH is home they have beds in the bedroom and they have their sofa to sleep on.
They just immediately migrate when he's home.