General Chat

Our dogs always slept downstairs, but for some reason cats have always slept on the bed if they wanted to, a cat purring is a lovely way to go to sleep.

Ha Ha!! It's the Daily Mail - and it's an American survey!!
Apparently, though you may catch any one of a variety of diseases from your pet, a vet suggests this may be reduced by ....regular visits to the vet!! Of course he does!!
Sleeping with a flea-ridden cat - or even having one in the house isn't something I relish - so my cats are regularly doused in varius unguants.

When I was a toddler in Malta - the cat used to sleep on my bed - so he was under the mosquito net and didn't catch various diseases that way.
When a child, living in a caravan in the North East of Scotland, the cat used to sleep IN my bed - kept her, and my feet warm.

Since then, any family cat has the chance to sleep ON my bed -- and the children's when they were small - central heating means they never get as cold as poor Mickie in Scotland and get in the bed.
Neither of my children has asthma or any animal-related allergies.
As for worms, if a cat is wormed regularly (and most anti- flea stuff now includes a de-wormer) a child is more likely to catch them at school!!

The cats are only allowed on the spare bed, when the duvet & pillows my son in law uses when he occasionally stays are removed (he has asthma, and is allergic to cats, dogs, fur, hair etc etc!! LOL - I blame his over-clean mother), and there is a covering of at least a plastic cover and 2 throws on the bed.
He sleeps okay here, and doesn't use his inhaler any more than normal.

Bed bugs are grateful to have someone to chew on at night.

So far ,In all the years I have had a dog in my bed ,or a cat on top of the duvet ,I have never caught anything from them.They have all been well treated for fleas and worms.The only problem I have is the muddy paws ! (sometimes)
No Bed Bugs Dermot lol

You don't get bed bugs from pets! They appear to be on the rise in luxury hotels - certainly not what you could call my house - brought in to the hotel in luggage!
Forgot to mention, my cats have other sleeping places apart from my bed - bottom of the wardrobe, chairs, sofa, floor, stairs, on plastic bags, or in large paper bags (Betty's penchant), or indeed, anywhere I'm not sat!

one of my old cats would always head for the fresh laundry pile and he would lick my hands "clean" to earn his place on the bed !

No

It may be different for you city slickers with your pampered
and perfumed pooches, but on the farm dogs very definitely
stay outside!

xxxxxx mick

Mick~~~
Country girl me.
Mine were never pampered or perfumed pooches.lol
More like mutts :) Loved and adored but always slept indoors.... deffo not on the furniture.
Didn't have a barn or kennels, poor things would have frozen outside in our winter weather.
Sandie.

Your wife or an electric blanket - which would you prefer to have in your bed on a cold winter's night?

(Right - I think I'd better go out now for a long walk to let the feathers settle!)

Neither being female:)

But hubby does warm the bed up very well :)

ooooooh Dermot ! At least animals don't break wind and laugh !

My jack russel terrier Millie, has shared our bed since she became frightened of fireworks around 4 years ago.
Now we love having her, and sometimes during the night she will creep right up between us to keep extra warm. It would seem strange without her now.!!!!!
She is always clean, and as Julia says, I know where her b.m bas been.!!

Talking about that survey........excerpt from my local paper last night which made me laugh my head off:

"We heard this week of woman who shared her bed with a python! All was well until she became worried that the python was ill when it stopped feeding.

The vet informed her it was preparing itself for its next big meal -- HER!!

Apparently, the penny did eventually drop when she got home one day and noticed that the python had put a bottle of ketchup next to the bed!"

Mary

LOL

LOL Mary

Sandie, you've reminded me of my first night under a 'proper' roof in Shetland (after spending 6 months living in a very small tent!)
We'd only just moved in and I was alone in the croft, my (now ex) and the lodger only having one weekend a month off work, had moved their stuff in and gone to work.
With me was the lodgers border collie, Ben, who I had only just met.
Our (mine & ex's) bedroom was the 'other' downstairs room, which, strangely had wallpaper, but it was missing from about a foot from the floor upwards.
There were gas lights in the 'main' room, but we had to use candles in the other 3 rooms.
When I went to bed, I shut Ben in the main room, and took my candle and a torch to the bedroom.
I settled down, red a few pages of a book and blew the candle out.
I fell asleep almost immediately, only to be woken up by 'feeling' something across my hair.
I lay awake, but very still, and felt it again.
To be honest, I didn't really want to know what it was, or what was happening,but then felt something brush past my face.

I grabbed the torch and shone it on the bed - there were mice everywhere - all over the floor - and my bed!!!
That explained the missing wallpaper - eaten by mice!
I jumped out of bed and got Ben in.
Gave him a swift lesson in killing mice - and he stayed on the bed henceforth!!
So - what was the worst 'danger' - marauding mice or the dog?

He did a damn good job - the mice were gone within a week and I eventually trained Ben (more used to the environs of Edinburgh than the sheep infested Shetlands) to herd sheep rather than chase them and go for their throats!!!

Lol Maggie~~

Lovely story:)

Sandie.x