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My Border is 10 months now. He'll happily sleep in his crate for as long as we leave him at night. He's been in for 12 hours without a peep and quite happy. However when we leave him for a couple of hours in the day he barks and howls though he doesn't chew or anything else.
Am thinking maybe it might be time to let him not sleep in crate and then he'll happily spend a few hours in crate in daytime if needed.
Where does your dog sleep at night? Am I just asking for trouble by changing a secure nighttime routine that he is happy with?
wherever it wanted to.
Also only barked and made noises when it was alone- so i was told.
One on a beanbag in my daughter's bedroom. The other in a chair at the top of the stairs. Unless there are foxes about, in which case no one sleeps...
On his bed next to ours. Used to be downstairs until he worked out he could open the bedroom door, which he used to do at around 2-3am when he thought we'd not notice. Gave up trying to keep him out.
Downstairs in the kitchen but with free run in there, which is also where we leave her when we're out.
+1 to foxes though.
On his bed in our bedroom.
Downstairs in the kitchen/diner.. She started off in a different room in a baby pen type arrangement, and quite often we wouldn't hear from her until 7, 7.30 am. Since we moved her, she's up at 6.30 scratching at the kitchen door to be let out. Been like it since October half term. She's still only 7 months old, so we're hoping she'll start lying in when she is older.
on the sofa on her blanket.
Our Border roams the house, but isn't allowed on Sofa's, so the lounge door is closed.
He has his own chair in the dining room, but generally sleeps on an old beanbag on the floor in my daughter's room. He's not allowed on beds.
in here in the daytime
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She used to sleep in a crate and loved it just fine but my heart melted when we let her sleep on the bottom of the bed one night as she was the happiest dog in the world.. Now me and the misses are split up and I get dog custody 2/3 months a year she has free reign of the house like any spoilt child!
She sleeps here..
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or here..
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sometimes here..
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and when shes not sleeping usually the same places..
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downstairs
Basket or floor
Keep routine
Shitsu on the stairs or on bed in cage or bed in passage.
Springer on our bed or his bed in our bedroom.
Mad Spanish guard dog thing on our bed.
If it's really cold thou it's doggy pile ons on our bed otherwise they seem to alternate sleeping spaces thru the night.
I just tend to see how they work most started as puppies left in crate(got big crate though) with gate open on evening not encouraged onto my bed and I've got a few of the nice pillow type dog beds scattered about the place.
+1 for foxes and full moon seems to make go a bit weird an the
My wife is soft as shit, so one sleeps under the covers in between us and the other at our feet.
It is not my favorite part of having dogs.
On their beds by our bed or if I'm out then on our bed.
+1 for foxes though.
Kennel outside.
Our border sleeps in her bed in our bedroom. During the day if we need to leave her she sleeps in a bed in the kitchen.
Kennel outside, it is fully enclosed and in a sheltered part of the garden, it is stuffed full of rugs and we change the straw in it once a week! She runs outside at night when we tell her it is bedtime!
She is from working dog stock though, and the breeder advised that she would prefer being outside! Out neighbours also keep their working labs outside.
Working cocker, outside in the stable where she has a large wooden 'box' with her bed in it.
She loves her bed and comes to me all excited at 10pm with a shoe which means it's bed time.
Edit: Same as Phil ^. I think working dogs that have been brought up sleeping outside just love it regardless of the weather
By our feet
Our Beardie sleeps outside in his kennel even on the coldest nights!! He has lots of warm bedding and a very insulating coat but hates being forced indoors. The breed is noted for its stubbornness.
Lab and westie both in cages in the kitchen. Never hear a peep unless my wife gets up and lab starts whining. If I get up first don't hear a thing.
On our bed(s), in monkey jnr's den, on the landing, on either of the downstairs sofas.
All of the dogs since I was a nipper - bar the one owned by my posh ex - have been given free reign around the house. They're furry children (unless they're working for their keep)
Both my dogs sleep in one laugh crate. There very happy in it.
Night time at the bottom of the stairs, during the day one of her 3 beds, 2 in the living room and one in the kitchen. The only time she's allowed up stairs is when she's bricking it cuz of fireworks.
Downstairs in utility room (closed door to kitchen) on a http://www.tuffies.co.uk
As others have said working dogs should sleep outside, my neighbours dogs didn't ever go in the house. Our dog was a "show" Lab so we where a bit soft with her.
She used to sleep in her basket next to my bed but then she made it onto the bed and now sleeps under the covers snuggled up to me.
Our border has the free run of the place, so wherever he likes. He often starts off in our bed (under the covers until he gets too hot) and then jumps down and goes somewhere else. He'll often come back to bed at some point though. I'd not have it any other way...
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Border in kitchen, on sofa in her own bed.
Sometimes we let her upstairs if fireworks etc.
I have a Lurcher she sleeps where ever she is!! Spends days when Mrs works in kennel outside. Used to sleep in it at night too until anagallis junior arrived and she used to bark when he cried so she moved inside onto the sofa. Now she splits her time between sofa, bed in spare room and juniors room.
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Newfoundland - she sleeps anywhere downstairs, but isn't allowed upstairs (has great difficulty getting down again) and spends roughly 99% of her time asleep. This time of year when we have that heating on she spends most of her time sprawled on the patio to keep cool
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He's got a little bed next to ours.
Working English Cocker Spaniel that sleeps either in a cage in the garage, or if it's too cold, then a cage in the utility room.
She's far too mad to let her sleep 'on the loose' in the house, 😆
All three in crates in the utility room , they all disappear off too the crates for power nap when they feel like it . Utility door and back door have dog flaps so they have access to the garden .
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Wherever they want. Free to roam the house.
Their actual beds are in the hallway outside our room.
Separate crates in living room; one large and one medium but as the puppy grows we'll have to make space for two large!
What did you do with their eyes Cheesy? 🙂
Beautiful looking dogs, what breed are they?
Mine sleeps on the table. Tends to stay there all day too!
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What did you do with their eyes Cheesy?Beautiful looking dogs, what breed are they?
Soft coated wheaten terriers , believe me they can see a cat/ squirrel at 200m with out a problem 😆
We did plait thier fringe for the Christmas party sausage race .
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On their bean bags in the top hallway, unless my son has left his bedroom door open then it'll be on his bed; Working Springer and Working Cocker but we've no central heating so they don't overheat.
They never lie near either the Aga or wood burner, even when they've just come in from a run and are 'damp' (Springer was swimming yesterday..., snowing here).
Those of you who have their dogs in bed with them, do you kick them out when sha99ing or let them watch? 😉
Those of you who have their dogs in bed with them, do you kick them out when sha99ing or let them watch?
Kick him out. There's nothing like a cold, wet (dog) nose on your arse cheek to put you off your rhythm...
Our Vizsla Pointer cross sleeps in his crate in the kitchen at night and when we're at work and is perfectly happy. Get's the run of the house any other time though.
Right now next to me on the sofa but overnight they'll be on the their bed in the kitchen, its almost the size of single bed though so they dont grumple.
In a cage at the end of my bed,Very rarely in the bed with us.
Is only a mini Daschund so dosent take up much room