Is your dog(s) allowed on the couch?

[GSDElsa]

Heheh.

I used to be strictly a no furniture mom. Then. Well, I got sick once. And I reeeally wanted to cuddle. And liked it!!!

So, now Elsa is alllowed on the couch and bed sometimes when we tell her it's ok.

[selzer]

Yes, I bought the leather couch already fatigued because I knew the dogs not allowed rule wouldn't last.

[Gib Laut]

this is my first dog ever allowed on the bed...no other furniture tho....and on "his" side when the blanket is down....he is only allowed up if he behaves, otherwise he gets told off and he sulks until told it's alright again.....he's almost never up there if I'm not anyway.

[mjbgsd]

They are allowd on the furniture. Isa for some reason doesn't like the couch too much but she will lay on the chair. I love snuggling them at night time. Akbar is a weirdo, he doesn't like any furniture unless I tell him to get on it, lol.

[Sigurd's Mom]

Sigurd is allowed on all furniture. I like it when he lays with me on the couch or cuddles me in bed! When I tell him off he usually gets off. I haven't had any problems with him going on other people's furniture when visiting friends/family.

[selzer]

There is really nothing in my house so valuable to me that I would be heartbroken if my dog soiled or ruined it. I let them on the couch and bed because I want them there. I do not mind a little hair. If they are wet or muddy I crate them in the sun room until they are dry. If they are in heat, I use a diaper. I do not give them the run of the house, because there is always the chance that they could chew an electric wire, or something equally dangerous. For this reason, they are kenneled when I am not there to supervise, normally. Babsy has the run of my bed, bath, and hall. Jenna has her half of the sun room, and Joy has an x-pen in the sun room and the patio

[UConnGSD]

Originally Posted by selzer

There is really nothing in my house so valuable to me that I would be heartbroken if my dog soiled or ruined it. I let them on the couch and bed because I want them there. I do not mind a little hair.

I heartily agree! Wolfie is allowed on all furniture. But according to DH, Wolfie apparently always plants his hairy butt right on DH's pillow when he gets on our bed and DH thinks it's an act of defiance We bought Wolfie a bed of his own thinking he'll use it. Well, it is being used alright, for his jollies

[selzer]

Babsy does that too, I sometime have to push her over to lie longwise in the bed instead of across all the pillows.

[valb]

Sierra and I have sort of a don't ask don't tell policy. She never gets
up on the fabric covered couch. She "never" gets up on the leather
one, unless it's at night after I've gone to bed. Funny thing is
though, when I get up and go to the kitchen in the middle of the night,
I see her on the couch and she sees me, but she doesn't scramble
to jump down!! She just looks back at me. It's really cute, smart
little dickens figured out she gets a pass!

[Chicagocanine]

Originally Posted by Josiebear

No furtnitures allowed i also like it that way because if we go to someone's house who happens to be a neat freak i don't have to worry about the dogs jumping on someone else's furniture.

Bianca never tries to get on the furniture when we are at someone else's house. She only gets up if invited.