Do you allow your doxie on the furniture?

[Heide]

They are allowed on their couch that is pretty low to the ground. I cannot have them in our bed as it is way tooo high for them and I know if they were to hear a little noise from outside they would not wait for me to put them down... They would run and jump.

[Otto'sMom]

My pups have the run of the house, and go where ever they want to. I couldn't imagine restricting where they wanted to sit or sleep. All my furniture is pretty low and the stuff that isn't, has stairs to it for them. Otto and Gert will make noises waiting for me to get them off the bed and Gert will wait paitently for me to come and get her off of anything she can't jump down from. (She's really getting brave with the jumping, she even ran up a carpeted flight of stairs this weekend!)

[lotsadox]

As my husband told one little boy who asked where our dogs sleep "Anywhere they want"!

[Meemoo]

but NOT on our bed unless we pick him up and put him down. He will jump otherwise..and that is a *no no* because it is very high and he thinks he is *superdog.*

[onebigmickeyfan]

is not accurate. THEY RUN THE HOUSE.:D I have dogs therefore I have dogs on my furniture, in my bed, ect.... The living room furniture is low and our bed (sorry Missy's bed) has a ramp. :D

[juliette]

Personally I am waiting for my dogs to pay the mortgage! :)

We never considered keeping them off the furniture. Otto will cry to be lifted up onto things if we are sitting on them, otherwise he will jump up and down himself. We have tried to get them to use the Ottoman for the sofa and the bench for the bed, but it never works (much to our dismay).

I have to keep my fingers crossed and keep taking them for their weekly chiropractic!

[Katy]

I agree with with everyone else...How could I tell them not get get on THEIR furniture? Molly already uses me as something to climb to reach the furniture, if not she cry in front of it. She figures if that is were my sister is, that must be where the dogs go! Maddy's absolute favorite is when we have guest over and we use the sofa bed in our office. She won't let us put it up after the visitors leave, it is great to have a bed in the room with hoomom and hoodad!

Katy

[Frzframe]

Originally posted by Meemoo
but NOT on our bed unless we pick him up and put him down. He will jump otherwise..and that is a *no no* because it is very high and he thinks he is *superdog.*

That's why when I bought my house I ended up just putting the top mattress on the floor!! This is because the bedrooms all have hard wood floors and my bed was a tall one. So now I have a rug so Moo and soon Dud can jump on and off of it. :sarcastic :D

~Shonda & Moo and Dud

[doxunzX3]

Yup they even have the couch that has no legs under it. This makes it easier for them to get up and down. But in all truth it was bought from a neighbor that way. But if someone is a little bit off. I take the one cushion off to make it even easier for them.
I do have a ramp that isn't out right now. We used for senior doxies in the past. But these guys think it is just something to jump off of. So we put it away.
I do crate them when I am gone for their own safety though. :flower:

[Jennie]

My boys are allowed anywhere except my bed. They seem to have no problem knowing this is off limits. Plus, their crates are in the bedroom, so if we're in there, it's usually to sleep or be crated for another reason (while I'm getting ready in the morning, etc).

[joeysmom]

Before JOEY's IDD problems in December, he had access to all of the furniture in the house, now we don't give JOEY access to anything that he could jump from. He doesn't seem to mind though since my husband and have stopped using the furniture too. Now everyone just hangs out on the floor.

[LisaH]

I think it would be more to the point to ask the dachsies, "Do you allow your Hoomans on the furniture?" Annie and Molly do encourage us to join them on the sofa and (in Annie's case) the bed, but they seem to feel we take up WAY too much room.

LisaH, Annie, and Molly

[crock]

Do you allow your children on the furniture? Of course and they are an extension of our kids. They are terrible hogs of the bed. Only 3 in bed. The other 3 have a bed on terh floor.
Char

[christy]

Rocky and my basset hound Bayley are controlers of the furniture in the house. They are gracious every once in a while and allow me to sit on the couch or lay in the bed...:D :scratch:

[Cathy]

Max has access to both our family room and living room couches plus the BIG Bed of course.

Our family room furniture is leather, so it's easy to clean up. Our living room couch is old, and Max's wear and tear just gives me an excuse to buy a new one, one of these days.:bounce:

[Alexis' Mommy]

Alexis is allowed on the bed & on the couch but only has access to them while we are supervising her & she knows she has to wait to be picked up & let off of them. Mario will be the same way.

[Christena]

There is a way to keep them off????? LOL!!!

[Joyce]

I love the replys, yes Dexter goes wherever he choses. Some people say when they see him on the furniture "is he allowed on the furniture" would he be there if he wasn't:D

[HawaiiDoxieLover]

NO

It can only take one time...we found out the heartbreaking way...

[Sara]

Yes, it would be cruel to have the cats walking on the furniture without the dog being allowed on it. Savannah and Robin are black and Muffin is grey so I have black furniture, you can't even see any animal hair :rofl:

Yes, I admit it, I bought furniture to match my animal hair. It cuts down on my house cleaning...

[Aurelia Ash]

My animals are my family. They can go anywhere in the house they choose (sometimes the guests have to sit on the floor, Haha, kidding) and they love it.

[daionara]

What do you mean allow? You mean we have a CHOICE??? Skyler goes where Skyler wants. After his injury last year he won't jump down (thank goodness) but he'll still climb up the couch and curl up. If he wants up on our beds with us, we pick him up and he settles right in. He won't jump down from the beds either.

[Ellie]

After the problems Tucker had with his neck, and Buffy's shoulder injury, I tried very hard to keep them off the furniture, to no avail. I bought stairs for the bed and the living room furniture is low. Unless of course, Buffy the flying squirrel takes a leap off the arm.
My son told me tonight he couldn't get comfortable on the sofa with me because the dogs were taking up too much room. I asked him why he was hogging up their sofa. lol.
Whatever furniture I'm on, you can bet Buffy will be on too. And the pups and kitts own the loveseat. My husband was over visiting the kids and sat there in his black work trousers. When he left he was complaining about the cat hair. I told him he should sit on the floor. THEY live here.

[Lisa1968]

Our vet feels that allowing Max to jump on and off the couch contributed to his back problems.:(

We were told jumping down from furniture is hard on a doxies spine and trust me, you don't want to have back problems. We learned this the hard way.

Max now has his own little couch that sits on the floor by our couch.

Sometimes he is allowed up on the couch with me, but he knows that he must be invited before he can come up and that means me lifting him onto and off the couch. When I get up, I put him back down on the floor.

It took awhile for us to break him of jumping up on his own, as he was used to doing this as he pleased.
:angel:

[Dackel Clarence]

Clarence is allowed to use the couch and we share the bed with him.

Sometimes he tries to filch something from the couch table - but just food stuff, which could be delicious in his mind :D

On Christmas at my parents he took 3 pieces of Spekulatius (traditional german christmas cookie - in american perhaps something like gingery cookie) off the table.... Satan :D :D :D

But he's well-behaved, so this actions happening very rarely :pray:

[Ruthi]

Our babies each have their own couch under their own window in the Az room. Right now we have 5,that's right 5, couches in our Az room.LOL!!! They also have a twin size bed on the floor there and we sleep on the floor in the bedroom so they won't have to jump up and down. I guess our babies are a little spoiled!

[Basil'sMom]

Basil is not allowed on ANY of the furniture. I'm not saying that he hasn't tried to join us on the couch, but he's promptly lifted down and that's that. He has his own little pet couch/bed/thing that he LOVES, so that's where he can hang out. I'm just not so excited about pet hair all over my furniture!!

[EdieBird]

GingerSnap goes on the couch and the bed. She has to be lifted on and off the bed, and for that, she waits (not patiently!) for help. However, since my dad is a sucker for a wrinkly forehead and grunty puppy kisses, she has a ramp for the couch, which she charges up and down at will. Now that she's used to using the ramp (after a whole week LOL), she never forgets to use it.

In fact, tonight when I got home from work, she was sleeping on the couch until she heard my voice. Then, as fast as a Dachshund pup can go, she flew across the couch, down the ramp, around the kitchen, and smack into the baby gate that blocks her from the back of the house, where I had gone to drop my coat off in my room. Despite her apparant desperation, she remembered to use her ramp! Whoosa Good girl?? GingerSnap is!

[Jones Beach LG]

We have a understanding I dont sleep in their beds,( they dont know I cant fit in them ..LOL ) , all 7 in house , 2 in car and they dont sleep in/on our furniture,....

[Suzanne R]

Boy, this is an ancient thread!!:D

[Dinosmom]

Dino has the whole house when we are home (he is crated when we are gone) he will let me and mine husband use his bed (just to keep him warm on cold night) but he is our baby so he can go where he likes

[Rodney'sMom]

Rodney is allowed on the couch, chairs and the bed, but he rarely jumps, and NEVER off the bed. I think he is afraid he'll fall (no complaints here). He does have a set of stairs for the couch too.

[DixieDoodle]

Our bed is sky high so I only let her on it when we are in it. Not to sleep though. Just to come in to bed with us in the am to snuggle. She sleeps in her crate in our bedroom at night.

All other furniture is fair game though....to her and her feline brother and sister:D. She still "asks" to get up on the furniture since she hasn't tried to jump up YET.

[Bingo]

I don't use a bed frame, my mattresses sit right on the floor, to make it easier for my puppy to get in and out of bed.

[7-Ups]

Actually, the furniture is their's and they allow us on it - LOL.

[Caidanbi]

Ringo is allowed on certain pieces of furniture. I sit on a zabuton in my room, which is basically just a cushion on the floor. He's allowed on that - in fact, when my leather bean bag shows up, the zabuton will actually be his! We don't have a couch, only chairs. There's no arms on them, so he can't sit on them, but he's always in my lap on them. As for the bed, he gets to come in it right before we change the sheets, otherwise he can only be on it in my lap. To be honest, I'd like to let him on it all the time, but he has a tendency to, umm, leak when he's overexcited, or when he hasn't been out in a while, and I really don't want him to get pee pee on my bed. I've tried putting him up there with a towel, but he just digs in it and ends up on my blanket anyways! *sigh*

[Squirt]

it's all about the dogs! they are free range here.

[Hannalei]

but NOT on our bed unless we pick him up and put him down. He will jump otherwise..and that is a *no no* because it is very high and he thinks he is *superdog.*

Yeah I agree here. Our bed is very high and I'm terrified of allowing her up on the bed and making a habit of it. If she got down in the middle of the night and hurt herself in the process I'd just die. She is perfectly happy to sleep in her crate though at night it seems. I tell her goodnight and she trots over to it, curls into her bed and gives me the look of.... ok put my blankie over me and shut my door I'm sleepy. :hearts:

[peanut0315]

They run the house. I'm just allowed to sit on the couch.

[Dogmother]

The furniture here belongs to the weens and they are kind enough to share it with us. lol About a year ago Wayne got me a chair and a half so I could fit all the gang in the chair with me and whenever I get up and come back there are doxies all over the chair and no room for mom.

Three of the 7 sleep with us and I my bed is pretty high also but I have a step for them to use to get on and off the bed and they have all been taught to use it even the ones that don't sleep with us at night as they are allowed on the bed when we take naps or wahtever. They just can't sleep with us as they abuse the privledge so they sleep in crates at night, except Mira who has her own bassinett next to my head.

Terri

[pwrca]

I responded no, not at all but, the truth is that Mooshie is allowed on the couch or the bed if he lays on his quilt. He is usually quite happy, as long as he is covered. If he is not covered he will burrow his way underneath the quilt. So, in reflection I should have answered "sometimes" Here is a pic of him in his bed when he was a couple of months old.
http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww21/pwrca/DSC02350.jpg?t=1257522126

[doxiefollies]

[quote=juliette;44495]Personally I am waiting for my dogs to pay the mortgage! :)

That is just about right!!

My furkids let me on the furniture!