Dogs on furniture

Dog not allowed in back of house (hallway, bedrooms and bathroom), free run of living room and kitchen. He's not allowed on furniture (30kg setter). Have had them in the same room in hotels etc but drives me batty and don't want dog or cats in bed with me.
 
Ha ha I have greyhounds - you have to be VERY disciplined to stop them getting on the furniture! Yes, they all get on the furniture, covered in easily washable throws. They don't generally sleep on the bed any more unless I am ill, in which case Amy takes advantage and sneaks in to be with me :)
 
We have mini schnauzer. She is currently curled up on end of sofa on her big cushion. Sleeps in crate at night. Furniture is leather so wipes clean. Sneaks upstairs if door left open. She will come for a cuddle and is a mobile hot water bottle in the evenings in an old somewhat cold house.
 
Lévrier;13020406 said:
Ha ha I have greyhounds - you have to be VERY disciplined to stop them getting on the furniture!
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...and watch 24/7! :D

My pair is allowed to go upstairs for a short time (to wake daughter up or keep an eye on me if Im doing something) but not on beds. Free movement downstairs, greyhound would use any chance to creep up on a couch (I dont mind) but won't dear in OH's presence. Fat git loves to pretend he is a lap dog but being about 40 kilos heinz57... its quite difficult to succeed. :lol: In the morning there usually are two (still warm) dents on the couches. :lol:
 
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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IME, that will really casue problems in the future. We got 2 Rottweiler bitch puppies, absolutely adorable and so tiny when they came home, that they struggled to get up the step into the kitchen. We knew that they would weigh about 8st each as adults, so decreed to no-one should pick them up to cuddle and definitely no sitting with them on your lap. 2 people ignored that instruction, my Dad and a good friend. Guess who now complains that when they come to visit, they get 2 big Rottweilers trying to sit on them!
They are not allowed upstairs either, although if they ever do manage to get there, they do enjoy trampolining!
 
Lévrier;13020406 said:
Ha ha I have greyhounds - you have to be VERY disciplined to stop them getting on the furniture! Yes, they all get on the furniture, covered in easily washable throws. They don't generally sleep on the bed any more unless I am ill, in which case Amy takes advantage and sneaks in to be with me :)
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Whippets here and I am reading this slightly incredulously at the concept that you can keep them off the furniture :lol:

We tried very, very, very hard to get my boy whippet to sleep in his own bed not ours, but it was making him and us miserable. Hes just hardwired to sleep in the bed under the duvet. He does it whether we are in there or not :lol: His favorite place is under the duvet, pressed along the back of your legs.

We bought a super king sized bed in the end, as hes a spiky little thing when he stretches his legs out! My other dog is whippet x collie probably, and while she likes our bed, she doesnt like to sleep in it and is happy in her soft padded dog bed, with a fleece.
 
I have a lurcher who has the choice of two sofas and two rooms to sleep in. I have Ikea Ektorp sofas that you can wash the covers and also buy additional ones, he also has throws on his sofa.
The rottix is not allowed on the sofa, she is just too huge although she thinks she is a JR and try's to get on your lap. They are not allowed in the bedrooms, house rules and neither are the five cats.
 
Allowed on chairs in the dining room and kitchen and bedroom allowed in sitting room and my den with permission and on chairs in there my invitation .
Allowed on bed but get pushed off if we have had enough .
They get off anywhere from a hand signal.
Leather chairs and sofas which wipe and a couple of fabric ones which have throws and I hover them and wipe with a damp cloth .
I never spend huge money on chairs and sofas not worth it in this house .
 
Have 2 malamute neither of which are allowed on sofas or upstairs. The girl is fine with this and the boy doesn't even consider getting on a sofa if you are there but clearly sleeps on one every night and quite often during the day when we are at work. He is excellent at making sure he is not caught so little bit difficult to deal with, will try upturned cushions though as suggested by a previous poster. We are getting new sofas soon so sitting room will have doors on then and dogs will be shut out when we are not there to prevent him (OHs instructions :-(
 
When I got my lab puppy I had a rule - not on furniture or in the bedroom.

That was successful for a whole 18 months, and the no bedroom rule is still strictly enforced (for the cats as well!).

Unfortunately at 18 months I moved closer to my parents and my wonderful mother taught him the pleasures of the sofa!! I'm now guilty of letting him on and he generally chooses to sleep there instead of his bed too. It's leather so just wiped clean.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
IME, that will really casue problems in the future. We got 2 Rottweiler bitch puppies, absolutely adorable and so tiny when they came home, that they struggled to get up the step into the kitchen. We knew that they would weigh about 8st each as adults, so decreed to no-one should pick them up to cuddle and definitely no sitting with them on your lap. 2 people ignored that instruction, my Dad and a good friend. Guess who now complains that when they come to visit, they get 2 big Rottweilers trying to sit on them!
They are not allowed upstairs either, although if they ever do manage to get there, they do enjoy trampolining!
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We're suckers for this too! We've never really minded dogs upstairs/on furniture/etc to be honest. It's their home too, in my eyes.

We've got a rottie bitch she's actually very small (by rottweiler standards haha she's only just scraping into the breed height for bitches) and weighs 6.5 stone. She has a bed but spends all day when she's not being walked sleeping on my parents bed (with a cover on it) and she sleeps on the sofa over night (again with a cover). She does rather just climb onto your lap when you're sitting on the sofa but we're all softies here so just enjoy a cuddle. She doesn't stay on your lap very long unless she falls asleep as she does get hot!

What a soft touch we are! To be honest she molts so much that the hair just goes everywhere anyway. We're constantly hoovering so the furniture isn't really the problem as we just use covers when she's using them.
 
I own a lurcher and am too reading this amazed that dogs don't get onto sofas !! He does curl up really small and does move off it whenever I ask him. He comes up to bed with me and snuggles in. We managed to keep him out of the bedroom for 2 days when we got him before OH brought him upstairs as he was upset, OH not the dog !
 
Well that's What happened to us. Two nights of me sleeping downstairs with the new puppy and OH said ' bring her to bed' 😊
 
Mine are allowed everywhere. When I had the baby I re-trained the dogs to sleep on a blanket at the foot of the bed to make sure they never slept anywhere near her and I always expect the dogs to get off any furniture as soon as I ask them but that's all in terms of rules.
 
Sofa yes, beds no. He also has to get off the sofa when told to and if you are on there, he has to wait to be invited. We were getting a bit lax about the latter of those rules, but with a baby on the way we're firming it up again. Not causing any problems so far.

I couldn't have not had him on the sofa when I first got him, because my house at the time was freezing beyond reasonableness! I think we probably saved one another from frostbite some nights :D He used to crawl under the blankets (yep, multiple blankets required to sit on the sofa some nights) and curl up on my feet. He still sees a blanket as his call to action to save my poor frozen toes!
 
I have always loved to be able to take my dogs on walking holidays and family holidays, so that means no dogs are allowed upstairs or on any furniture (the lurcher would sometimes try to change that rule), if someone wants a dog cuddle (it is usually me) then they sit on the floor-if my dogs were allowed on furniture/upstairs then my family would have objected to them joining us.
 
No dogs on furniture, or in the kitchen, bedroom or bathroom. The GSDx is very good at behaving, even grasses up the Rottie on occasion! She's a sneaky creature, who will wriggle her way onto my lap and the laps of any visitors she perceives as being a soft touch! Thankfully, she is only little, weighing in at 32kg :D

Just been out to unload a van, on my return I found a bone in the bedroom....... Someone's been up to no good. Luckily for her, she is very cute :)
 
I have a border collie - she isn't allowed on any furniture at all and is not allowed upstairs.

She was already an adult when we got her, is a trained working dog and had previously lived on a farm where she was either in a kennel with run or a stable (when she wasn't working). I'm sure she would happily climb on the furniture if I invited her to but she has several foam dog beds scattered around the floor and she just lies on those.

She doesn't jump up either - she will come and tell me when she wants to go out by putting a paw on my knee.
 
Lévrier;13020406 said:
Ha ha I have greyhounds - you have to be VERY disciplined to stop them getting on the furniture!
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My Grey is currently flat out under a blanket on the people bed.

Funnily enough for a Greyhound she has never even attempted to climb onto the sofa (!!) and I have kept it that way.
A Greyhound who doesn't want to lie on the sofa.. I think she could be broken?
 
KVH said:
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My Grey is currently flat out under a blanket on the people bed.

Funnily enough for a Greyhound she has never even attempted to climb onto the sofa (!!) and I have kept it that way.
A Greyhound who doesn't want to lie on the sofa.. I think she could be broken?
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Good heavens what HAVE you done to your poor, clearly traumatised greyhound :D :D

When I got my first greyhound I was astonished that they didnt like to get 'in' bed - the whippets I had previously only ever had one ambition, to get under the duvet and curl up asleep, so to find a greyhound that said 'sorry, no, don't want to do that' was really strange. In fact Amy (my whippet x greyhound) is the only one of mine who likes to do that, the others will lie on the bed but never get under the covers.

I've had 8 greyhounds and lurchers over the years now, and they have all made a beeline for the sofa.... :)
 
Since we moved they aren't allowed on our bed anymore. New house, new bed. But they are allowed on the brand new leather sofas lol. And they have their own sofas in the conservatory. Infact I don't think a human has ever sat on the new 2 seater. The jrt has claimed it for his bed and general lounging spot.
 
Ours aren't allowed on furniture unless invited, which isn't that often (particularly in winter as they're always wet!) They have a fabric bed each next to the fire, and are quite happy there.

They aren't allowed in bedrooms or on beds, apart from Sundays, when we have a lie in. The dogs get let out at 6am then OH comes back to bed and they go back to sleep in their baskets in the kitchen, When we get up later and have a coffee/breakfast in bed they come up too and can get on the bed. These dogs have a built in calendar, they know when it's Sunday! I don't know how anyone copes with dogs sleeping on their beds, I couldn't! (How do you have a love life!). But my biggest lab weighs six stone and snores quite often!

That said, we have recently got a terrier who flaunts the sofa rule all the time, springing up from nowhere, and who is so cute and charming she gets away with it sometimes!

The cats do go on the sofas, so we have hair on them anyway. We bought a second hand caravan that had a small Hoover in it. Since we only use the caravan at horse trials and never use electric it has become the sofa Hoover and it's wonderful.
 
Cocker spaniel - Not allowed upstairs. Allowed on chairs but mainly just pops up for a minute then goes to her own beds. Likes sleeping in front of the fridge on the tiles :p. is crated at night, chooses to go to the crate herself when it's bed time.

Cats - go where ever they please :p
 
Just to say I'm loving everyone who sleeps with a dog in their bed. If you do thus with a baby you are informed regularly that its a bad habit and you'll never get them out of your bed, which is complete you know what of course!!
 
stencilface said:
Just to say I'm loving everyone who sleeps with a dog in their bed. If you do thus with a baby you are informed regularly that its a bad habit and you'll never get them out of your bed, which is complete you know what of course!!
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Mine has bedtime snugs, settles at the bottom of the bed (or my side, if OH takes her to bed before I'm in) and then gets too hot and defects to the bedroom sofa.

She's one of my bestirs. I love her to bits, of course she can come on my bed, or anywhere else for that matter - I bought her to be part of the family, even if she does ruin my badedas bath for one.
 
stencilface said:
Just to say I'm loving everyone who sleeps with a dog in their bed. If you do thus with a baby you are informed regularly that its a bad habit and you'll never get them out of your bed, which is complete you know what of course!!
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So do I. I'd love to sleep with my doggie. She is chihuahua, so small but really adorable. She always wake me up every morning.:)
 
Definite yes to dog in bed - and comes into his own as a superior hot water bottle at this time of year. I was "strict" with my first dog years ago and he wasn't allowed on the bed or on the sofa - took me several years to realise what I was missing and I didn't make that mistake again :-)
 
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