Dogs on furniture

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Fools Motto

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So, who lets their dog(s) on chairs, sofas and beds? What are your personal views on allowing this? Did the dog just 'get on it' or did you call them up?

And if you do allow it, how do you ''cope'' with the added cleaning?

Throw your experiences at me!
 
My dog has her own sofa.. But she does use our other two as well! She is not allowed on the beds but does sometimes sit on the chairs in the kitchen as well unless she has come in muddy/wet when she's not allowed on anything except her own sofa.
 
So, I'd sound very strict to you both if I said my dog is not allowed and I'm training puppy to stay down!? OH picks puppy up for lap cuddles though much to my annoyance!!
 
We have recently got new sofas. Before that they jumped around and had a free run but I was always covered in white hair.
Since the new sofas came they are no longer allowed up although they do try as soon as I leave the room!! They have their own floor cushions, chair and bean bag though.
I have noticed such a difference and am not constantly trying the pull the hair off my clothes. Do miss the cuddles at night though!!
 
Our dog is allowed on the sofa in the kitchen but only when invited, not allowed on the sofa in the lounge, allowed on the sofa in the lounge at my parents but always asks permission, only allowed on the bed when hubbie has gone to work shhh! She is so clever to understand all those rules!
 
Soffa, chair, bed. And the dog actually sleeps on pillows above my head.

We have leather furniture, which is easily wiped over - and linen is washable......
 
Our Pip is non-shedding which helps with not having hairs all over the furniture. I love to have her on my lap on the sofa and she is allowed up most times when she asks, though not when we have just got back from the yard and she has that muck-heap-water effect on her paws! She also sleeps in my bed… which is what I like! (Except when my daughter is home, and gets preferential treatment). We are not the most disciplined household…
 
Dog can go anywhere she wants - it is a cold house she cannot possibly sit on the floor! She always comes up to bed with me and spends an hour snoozing on the bed before OH comes up. Her bed is next to my side of the bed but she is always back on the bed by morning.

She was a rescue - I think we invited her up on the sofa can't remember really. She is an affectionate dog - today I was in the garden reading on the lounger and she was on it as well! The sofas are white (not the best choice!) but we have throws all over it.

To me life isn't complete without a dog next to you and a cat purring away somewhere.
 
Mrs Spaniel is most definitely not allowed on the sofas! She was obviously allowed to in her old home and it took a while to get her head around the fact that she wasn't here. It was the first thing I enforced on the day she arrived.
To begin with we kept a throw over the sofa (she only goes on one not the other strangely) to prevent dirt.
She knows now that she's only allowed two front paws up and on us only, and only when we invite her up for cuddles but she is still sneaky about creeping into the living room when we're out and jumping up. We combat that by putting a broom in front of the door.

She isn't allowed any further than front two feet in the bedroom - I wouldn't have a problem with her sleeping on our floor but OH put his foot down about that. So her basket is in the upstairs hallway.
 
Poppy isn't allowed on any furniture or beds, she has her dog bed/sofa. Can't stand dog hair on bed/sofa maybe my ocd or due to being asthmatic!.
 
No big dogs on the bed overnight because we don't all fit, when OH leaves in the morning they come up if they want to. I specify big dogs because the spaniel does fit, generally under the covers or on my pillow!

Otherwise they're allowed everywhere, they sleep on the sofas during the day and on dog beds in our bedroom at night.
 
Fools Motto said:
Is this on her say-so, or do you invite her up?
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Oh, she rules the roost, so it's o her say so.

BUT, she's a Bichon, so small. I can totally understand you wanting your pup to remain on the floor unless invited to do otherwise - she's going to be significantly bigger :)
 
Where I sit or I lay is mine. I have my couch and my dogs have theirs and strangely, when I've wondered what the response would be when I've laid with them in their beds, they've never been 'comfortable' with it. Still, each to their own! :)

Alec.
 
Poodles and schnauzer,low shed....allowed free reign on leather furniture with throws that are washed daily.They sleep on our bed as well.Like amymays bichon,the little dog likes to sleep on the pillow if she can fit there.
when I had a dogue de Bordeaux and a rottie,they stayed on ground floor as they both were heavy shedders, and slept on the carpet by the sofa or in their own bed...we have tiled floors .The. Rot actually preferred to sleep outdoors if she could as it was cooler there,but was never left outdoors at night.
I have a large dog cushion at the side of my armchair and in the day the dogs like to lie next to my chair as its too hot to be on my knee,but in winter they do like their cuddles as do I.
 
Little non-shedding terrier is allowed everywhere but our bed, and sometimes she's invited onto the bed in the mornings for cuddles. Our new newfoundland is downstairs only and not on the furniture as he's an extremely heavy shedder and generally slightly damp.
 
I once had some suited "official" visitors who sat on one of my sofas while we discussed what they came for. When they got up to leave their smart dark suits were covered in white and brown JR hairs :) These days only the elderly wimp gets on the sofa and I have a throw to save my seat covers. The others stay in the kitchen - their choice but imposed now and again because Jake chases the cat so the rest of the house is cat country.
When I did behaviour training it was advised that it was okay for dogs to be on the furniture - so long as it is our choice and they can be told to get off without argument. Otherwise it can give them the wrong idea about where they are in the social structure.
 
The dogs have the run of the house during the day and are allowed on all the furniture. However they will all get off straight away if asked. The furniture is covered with cotton throws which are easy to wash and dry and do not trap hair. At night they are confined to a downstairs room. They ask if they can join us if we are already sitting on a sofa but will get on it if nobody else is there.
 
No, except my sons lab sleeps on his bed at night. They are also not allowed in the sitting rooms or upstairs unless we are there, during the day they are in the back of the house and kitchen. My house is dirty enough as it is!
 
Fools Motto said:
So, I'd sound very strict to you both if I said my dog is not allowed and I'm training puppy to stay down!? OH picks puppy up for lap cuddles though much to my annoyance!!
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You have to agree to train her to the same parameters otherwise you will confuse her.

Mine has her chair, which she knows she is allowed on, the other items of furniture she knows she isn't allowed on, she also isn't allowed up the stairs without being invited.
 
Currently allowed on the sofa, which he has trashed by nesting in it, we are currently doing a huge extension and will have new living room and new sofas (paid for yesterday!) and he will not be allowed on those as he's a big dog with big claws (GSD x Rottie). So it will be new house, new rules.

I'm wondering if we can get a rumble strip or something to put on the sofa as a deterrent as we can keep him off whilst we are there, but I'm under no illusion that he'll be straight on when we go out!

He's not allowed upstairs either (bad for his hips anyway) and since mini SF has arrived, the days I forget to close the stairgate are awful, why do dogs rip up/eat dirty nappies?! Bleurgh! In fact I'm hoping that as the new sofas are higher that it won't be as easy for him to get on anyway and if I get him a new bed so he's off the floor he'll be happy - new house will have underfloor heating which I think he won't like!
 
No dogs on the furniture or upstairs. Shut in utility when we are out, access to utility, kitchen and snug when we are home. Invited into sitting room on special occasions but they have to be quiet and lie down (usually when fire is lit).
 
planete said:
The dogs have the run of the house during the day and are allowed on all the furniture. However they will all get off straight away if asked. The furniture is covered with cotton throws which are easy to wash and dry and do not trap hair. At night they are confined to a downstairs room. They ask if they can join us if we are already sitting on a sofa but will get on it if nobody else is there.
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I hate dogs on furniture and on beds. My own dog was never allowed on furniture, in my parents house but my partners dog is allowed to climb over everything in his house and it drives me nuts!
 
Dog always been on the furniture and beds, I used to sit on the floor and the Setter would drape himself in the armchair and bash me on the head if I stopped stroking him. Present dog sleeps on the bed for company for me, used to have to sleep with OH and two setters on the bed! doesn't bother me at all but only me in the house.
 
They are not really allowed upstairs unattended, but we all sit together on the sofas. I have fleecey throws that go in the wash frequently. We are one big happy pack, of which I am the leader ( sometimes:) ). The only reason they are not allowed on the bed at night is because I am a restless sleeper and I think they are better off in their own bed in the kitchen. :) They are small though so that makes things easier. I understand the "working dog" living outside etc thing, but house dogs have always been part of our family and that means snuggles in the evening, sod the furniture.:)
 
The two working dogs live outside; the two oldies live in the house, as does any new pup that I acquire. No dog is allowed upstairs, but they have free-range downstairs. To be honest, the new super duper extra large Orvis dog bed is more comfortable than my 25 year old lumpy sofa, so am happy for dogs to have the sofa and me to have the dog bed which is slap bang in front of the fire! :D
 
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