I gave in to my husband's OWN rule that there would be no sleeping dog in the bed. We gradually loopholed the original rule with she could come up to cuddle in the morning (as she is usually a lazybone until about 10 if we don't have something fun planned immediately for the day). My husband (again...his rule) found a loophole in the loophole and woke up one morning around 5 and let her up.

SO...I gave in after her stick injury since she wasn't feeling herself and let her stay in bed with us ONE night. Well, guess who has been coming and putting her little chin on the bed ever since asking to be let up. And guess who is more than happy to break his own rule (she has got him absolutely wrapped around her paw). I'm obviously not fighting this, but I seem to be the one losing my spot lol.

Guess whose pillows she stole when I got up for two seconds to refill my water glass We're gonna need a bigger bed.

Yep, i'm definately hearing ye on this one!!

Kintra gradually worked her way onto our bed during the night after approx 2 years of being chucked off during the night (by me - ridiculously light sleeper), but then allowed on after the alarm goes off (i know, it's unfair, mixed signals and all that ).  She was so tenacious in her pawing during the night that he just began lifting the covers for her in his sleep.

We then agreed that Keely wouldnt be allowed on the bed at all and by the time she was big enough to get on it by herself it had become apparent that she's a girl with disgusting eating and rolling habits (i dont want to cuddle a neck that's been rubbed in seagull poo, or have fox poo breath in my face) so i was adamant.  OH, however, AGAIN, starts letting her up during the night - "s'okay, it was only 20 minutes before the alarm" strange that, it must have been HIS four hairy twitchy claw-ended legs and "exfoliating" paw pads that were poking and scratching me in the back during the night, must also have been him whom i heard jumping off our squeaky bed at 2am to noisily slurp water out of the bowl, it also must have been his black furry bum that let off a massive silent but deadly (stinking ) chuff in my face at 5am.

I dont actually mind her being in the bed really like a lot of others on this forum, what actually bothers me is that generally speaking he gets the cuddly warm furry side against him, but i always get the claws, and she twitches and stretches her legs ALL night  Kinda love it though

Archer & Zoe both sleep in the bed but they have to be completely under the covers near the foot of the bed and next to each other - they could care less about being next to me! They will jump up and nudge the covers for me to lift them and then under they go till the morning.

I snapped this with my iphone - here's an example of how they sleep:

Thats awesome, I completely don't blame any of you guys for giving in.  They are so clean-fealing and love to snuggle.  To not experience it would be a big bummer! One of the few rules we have actually stuck too is that joey isn't allow upstairs in our house. We baby gated the steps when she was a pup and shes been great with it. Its been the cat's respite.

Staying off the couches was a rule that got loopholed big time over 3 years. We sleep with her whenever we travel anywhere, on the couches, and sometimes we have sleepovers with her in our own basement--but shes never been in the bedroom. Its a good size split level so she still has lots of house.

Lol, my husband just texted me from apparently this morning on his way out to work. I am clearly just so bothered by these two (wink wink)

We usually go to bed at 10pm precisely during the week and the routine is let Keely out for a pee,open baby gate, Keely goes up and takes over the bed while we get a glass of water, book etc then go up.  Well, we stayed up late on Saturday as we didnt plan to get up early for change, but Keely asked to go out for a pee at 10pm exactly.  When she came back in we assumed she would jump back onto the sofa - no, she whined to get through the baby gate and went up to bed without us  and we have thinking all along that she wanted our company but it was really just our bed she was after all along

I sympathize with Sadie, I like my own space when I sleep...which I no longer have Bella actually seems to go from cuddle bug to loner when she is ready to actually sleep for the night, but as I mentioned the hubbs pulls her up in between us from the bottom of the bed...and she stays that way.

Second morning I woke up to her head under the covers and her butt out where her head should be. I hope this doesn't end up her preferred sleep pattern After I woke up the first time I woke up to her completely wrapped snug as a bug in the covers. I don't know how she tucked herself in so tightly.

My husband texted me the second pic. I don't know how to sleep through it.

I can really sympathise with you on the light sleeping thing - esp just now as it's so muggy over here at the moment, i really struggle with a furry hot water bottle in the bed with us.  I actually had to tell her approx 5 times during the night "own bed" but she would come back after 30 mins every time - it's actually really starting to get to me but i'm being outvoted 2:1 unfortunately

Smatulewicz - is that a raccoon that's nearly smothering you in the 2nd photo ?  Seriously, i dont know how you can sleep with a dog AND a cat - cats try to get as close to the heat as possible dont they, even if it means blocking your air intake