dog in bed

[Viking1]

Lord B

You do not have to go out side your house to catch some nasty thing.

Cut and past this

http://www.newscanada.com/canadianliving/nc_mplayer.asp?type=digital&lang=en&vol=archive&cat=12&articleID=nc434&mode=view&id=nc434.asx
and this one as well

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/vdust1.html
Mark

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

I agree with Katherine and Lord B.

My dog is regularly wormed/frontlined, she is groomed regularly, clean, and always dried off when wet before entering caravan.

She sleeps on my bed occasionally (not in it) and I have never caught anything from my dog. I dont see the point of having a dog and then putting it into kennels everytime you holiday, our dog is our family and our holiday is her holiday too!!

I also prefer my dog's company to certain humans too!

That's because your dog is a pet Sarah and so is part of your family. You are right also regarding the company, and your dog will also be more faithful and loyal to you than some humans. They never let you down.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Lord B

You do not have to go out side your house to catch some nasty thing.

Cut and past this

http://www.newscanada.com/canadianliving/nc_mplayer.asp?type=digital&lang=en&vol=archive&cat=12&articleID=nc434&mode=view&id=nc434.asx
and this one as well

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/vdust1.html
Mark

It's like I said though Mark, if you listened to the scaremongering you wouldn't even use your bed for sleeping, infact you wouldn't need a bed because you would be too stressed to sleep, lolol. One thing for sure is, like rats, you aren't going to eradicate them :O)

 

[LMH]

When I was a child (not too many years ago), the parents of two children who lived next door had a fixation about hygiene. The children were not allowed any pets EVER. The parents and children bathed in detol each night. Everything was scrubbed clean to perfection. Every work surface and floor was drenched in bleach and scrubbed several times a day. No shoes allowed in the house. The children were kept out of school if any 'bugs' were going round.

Anyway, the wife contracted an illness (sorry, but I'm not sure what it was), the upshot is she had to be isolated in hospital for nearly a year. It was touch and go whether she would survive. The hospital staff said she had contracted this illness due to the sterile conditions in which she lived.

I'm sure all our homes are clean and tidy. I've had more tetanas injections than I care to remember due to my hobbies. Apart from toxacara, I've yet to hear of a human contracting a diesease directly from a dog.

The only issue I have with allowing a dog on your bed is from a canine psychology point of view - the dog has to know it's place and with certain breeds, make ups, it's place is not your bed but it's own. I appreciate this doesn't affect all dogs.

No offence.

Lisa.

Lisa.

 

[Viking1]

we won't have to worry when we go on our main holiday our dog is staying with the mil.

 

[Wendy-Norfolk]

I have to agree with Lord B, Katherine and Sarah. We are great doggy people, and although we do not allow our dog in the bed, he visits us first thing in the morning for his one finger of KitKat, when we drink coffee and 6am, which means he will be on the bed.

At no time am I concerned about the possiblity of catching anything from my dog. He is wormed, deflead, deticked and vaccinated, and looking around at some of the filthy s**ds that are roaming around the streets and using my local Tescos I know who I would rather be rubbing shoulders with!

My children were brought up with the dogs. I wasn't one of the paranoid parents that went around and sterilised my children when the dog tried to unsuccessfully grab the biscuits out of the kids hands. The biscuit went straight into their mouths complete with dog licks before I could get there :O)!

I know alot of people will be throwing their hands up in horror. But I can assure you, my children did not suffer any ill effects from their close association with our dogs, IMO it made them more responsible pet owners themselves!!

 

[LMH]

Hi

Where are you going for your main holiday? Why arn't you taking Bess?

That's one of the reasons I bought a caravan, to take Daisy as most kennels wouldn't take her.

Lisa

 

[Viking1]

Hi lisa, we are going to pembrey in wales, we don't want to take bess because we will be going to a couple of farm parks and onto the beach and a lot of places like that where dogs aren't allowed.

sharon

 

[LMH]

I have to agree with Lord B, Katherine and Sarah. We are great doggy people, and although we do not allow our dog in the bed, he visits us first thing in the morning for his one finger of KitKat, when we drink coffee and 6am, which means he will be on the bed.

At no time am I concerned about the possiblity of catching anything from my dog. He is wormed, deflead, deticked and vaccinated, and looking around at some of the filthy s**ds that are roaming around the streets and using my local Tescos I know who I would rather be rubbing shoulders with!

My children were brought up with the dogs. I wasn't one of the paranoid parents that went around and sterilised my children when the dog tried to unsuccessfully grab the biscuits out of the kids hands. The biscuit went straight into their mouths complete with dog licks before I could get there :O)!

I know alot of people will be throwing their hands up in horror. But I can assure you, my children did not suffer any ill effects from their close association with our dogs, IMO it made them more responsible pet owners themselves!!

Hi Wendy

As long as the dog, family (with children in particular) muddle through and there's no challenging issues, that's fine.

The talk about ticks on dogs and Lyme Disease is extremely rare, infact I would like to see documented figures based on fact. As long as the dog knows its place and is sociable and aimiable and happy, and children respect the dog, it's fine.

As my dog number one has serious behavioural problems, she has to be treated as a dog (i.e. the lowest member of the household). Dog number two is brilliant but still knows its place.

Each case on its merits, in my opinion.

Lisa

 

[LMH]

Hi lisa, we are going to pembrey in wales, we don't want to take bess because we will be going to a couple of farm parks and onto the beach and a lot of places like that where dogs aren't allowed.

sharon

hi Sharon

Hope you have a great time.

Don't forget to mail a photo to me.

Lisa x

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Excellent post Wendy and it made me smile. We can all identify with your comments about dirty s*ds and rightly, our dogs are cleaner :O)

My mother in law was a person who hated dogs and instilled fear into her two daughters. It is only in the last 12 years that my wife became more aware of dogs and cured her fear of them and realised they weren't dirty like her mother said. Now we have three and her sister has a GSD.

Its quite comical now to see my 90 year old mother in law sat at our home with a dog snuggled up to both her legs. She's actually proud that they do this and tells other people, she even enquires about the dogs when we are away in the van. What a turn around :O)

 

[chelsea1]

isnt it weird how generations try to pass on their fear. our next door neighbour hates dogs (for no reason - never bitten etc) her children are frightened to death of dogs (again no particular reason)...all because her mother (the kids grandmother) has never liked dogs...therefore the whole family have steered clear from them and suspect the cycle will continue.

 

[Wendy-Norfolk]

Excellent post Wendy and it made me smile. We can all identify with your comments about dirty s*ds and rightly, our dogs are cleaner :O)

My mother in law was a person who hated dogs and instilled fear into her two daughters. It is only in the last 12 years that my wife became more aware of dogs and cured her fear of them and realised they weren't dirty like her mother said. Now we have three and her sister has a GSD.

Its quite comical now to see my 90 year old mother in law sat at our home with a dog snuggled up to both her legs. She's actually proud that they do this and tells other people, she even enquires about the dogs when we are away in the van. What a turn around :O)

My mother-in-law, being the most superior ex dog owner :O( would have thrown her hands in horror at the sight of children. food and dogs. Her motto was, that the kids would get "Dog Fever"??!!- what that was I don't know!!

Needless to say, they didn't get it :O)

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

isnt it weird how generations try to pass on their fear. our next door neighbour hates dogs (for no reason - never bitten etc) her children are frightened to death of dogs (again no particular reason)...all because her mother (the kids grandmother) has never liked dogs...therefore the whole family have steered clear from them and suspect the cycle will continue.

My wifes boss hates all forms of life, either wild or domesticated. Now can you get any sadder than that - sighhhhh. I'm surprised she had children but she did.

 

[chelsea1]

My wifes boss hates all forms of life, either wild or domesticated. Now can you get any sadder than that - sighhhhh. I'm surprised she had children but she did.

now that is sad....just aswell we all arent like this eh?!

 

[chelsea1]

Off to bed now...tired and not much happening on here.

*shouts to dog* " come on .......bedtime"!!!

*dog following up the apples and pears ready for her bedtime treats and a good nights sleep*

 

[LMH]

Sarah - my older dog sleeps in our bedroom but in her own bed.

Lisa

 

[LMH]

isnt it weird how generations try to pass on their fear. our next door neighbour hates dogs (for no reason - never bitten etc) her children are frightened to death of dogs (again no particular reason)...all because her mother (the kids grandmother) has never liked dogs...therefore the whole family have steered clear from them and suspect the cycle will continue.

Undertaker?

 

[chelsea1]

Bracken has her bed at the bottom of ours, but she always runs up the stairs before us and sits on our bed waiting for her bedtime treats...once ive arrived upstairs she jumps down onto her bed....eats them...then jumps up for a pat and its back down till the morning!

 

[LMH]

I'm supposed to be hard nosed with canines but I'm not. I always take the psychology angle with dogs but whatever works well with the dog and its human family and if the dog and owners are happy, that's fine.

No two dogs are ever the same.

Lisa.

 

[chelsea1]

Bracken has her bed at the bottom of ours, but she always runs up the stairs before us and sits on our bed waiting for her bedtime treats...once ive arrived upstairs she jumps down onto her bed....eats them...then jumps up for a pat and its back down till the morning!

Believe it or not - my dog has 2 baskets/beds..she has a luxury chocolate suede effect bed in the frontroom (to match the decor!) and another bed in the bedroom - she is a german shepherd after all - so got fed up with lugging huge basket up the stairs every night!

 

[chelsea1]

Undertaker?

LOL!...that made me chuckle!

 

[LMH]

Bracken has her bed at the bottom of ours, but she always runs up the stairs before us and sits on our bed waiting for her bedtime treats...once ive arrived upstairs she jumps down onto her bed....eats them...then jumps up for a pat and its back down till the morning!

Hi Sarah

Daisy (dog no.one) had three beds. Unfortunately she was ill on two of them, one had to be thrown away and one of them is in the garden waiting for me to take it to the launderette. (I'm not allowed to wash dog bedding in the washing machine, married to an ex butcher who is manic about hygiene).

Lisa

 

[yvonne6]

I would love to take my Springer on hols with us but he doesnt like the car. We take him to our local K9 hotel where he has a big comfy 2 seater sofa to sleep on, his own water/food bowl and they make sure that he given the same dog food as we do. He is taken out of the kennels for regular walks on the farm fields, and never comes back with kennel cough. i suppose i am lucky to have found kennel owners who treat the dogs as their own.

yvonne

 

[CliveV]

Clearly there seems to be no right or wrong answer, and we all seem to love our dogs. Which is good news because there are far too many that require rehoming. Firmly believe in the "Dog is for Life" principle.

I just think it is wrong to sleep with them or even with them on the bed.

Mind you we get criticsed for allowing our Retriever even in side the house (A North American/Canadian breed that was breed for hunting in the VERY cold) as it does not produce its proper winter coat.

It is supposed to be kept outside in a Kennel - but we could not do that!

Sing along time!!!

To the tune of the Monkeys "I'm a believer"

"And then I saw her face"

Da Da Da Da Da

"She was a Retriever!"