Nice post, glad to be here.
Where does your basenji sleep?
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Batman, chiweenie boy, burrows under the covers. He's done that from day one. Nayru was alternating between on the covers against my knees or at the foot of my bed on a pile of sheets on my cedar chest. Just the last few nights she's started getting under the covers. She doesn't stay there but I do love her warm little body against me.
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Ellie and Taj have slept fully under the covers with me for years. I too have to provide a blanket portal for their convenience. Before my old man Marco Polo crossed the bridge, he would sleep on the bed part of the night but not under the covers.
When I was bedridden with a horrid flu for a few days last year, I had a foster B with me who had come from a puppy mill and was not well-socialized at all, but even she joined in the nursing crew. Marco would lay by my left shoulder, the foster would lay down the side of my left leg, Ellie would be pressed against my right side with her head on my shoulder, and Taj was curled by my right hip. They took extraordinarily good care of me.
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Penny LOVES to sleep with us. She is very impatient so us to get settled and quickly tries to get her spot right in between Patrick and I which is adorable but i usuallu move her to either one side of Patrick or me so we aren;t separated. She will look at us and digg at the covers saying "lift them up so i can get in now" lol I just love when she sleeps and her sweet face. And when she is out she is OUT lol i can lift her up, mover her around and nothing! But man does she snore lol seriously for such a little thing, i sometimes have to adjust he head so she doesn't. I have never had a dog quite to cuddly and i love it and so doe my finace. Nothing better than the love of a basenji
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Lola came home as a tiny puppy, having never slept in a bed before. The very first night, we put her in bed with us. She immediately started pecking my shoulder with her nose until I picked up the edge of the blanket for her. She ran straight under the covers & settled right in between my legs in a little ball like this was how she had been sleeping every night for her short life. This is where she always sleeps, under the covers. If it gets warm, she becomes "rigor mortis dog", locking her legs straight out, nails dug into my legs. It it gets hot, she wakes up, rushed to the top of the bed, sticks her head out of the covers, collapses & falls instantly back to sleep.
Callie came to me at a little over a year. She had slept in a crate at night at her breeder's house, so the first couple of nights were confusing to her. She finally got the idea of sleeping in the bed, and it took her another 2 confusing weeks before she figured out where Lola was dissappearing to. Once she figured out the under the blanket idea, she decided right by my chest was her spot, and has slept there ever since.
On cool nights, the cat will sleep next to my face on the pillow.
They have gotten used to me tossing & turning, and it doesn't seem to bother them in the slightest. I'm usually the least comfortable, but I wouldn't have it any other way. -
Mine sleeps curled up behind my knees and when I turn over she does too. Occasionally she stretches out and then we have a problem with sharp toenails where they shouldn't oughta be. I'm trying to picture Lisa Stewart and FIVE basenjis in a king sized bed. Some B's are pokers and pushers (and growlers!) in the middle of the night when the human invades THEIR space!
ya my tri colored one growls if the red one invades his space and occasionally thinks me or my fiance is the other dog moving and growls. gets so hot in the bed with 2 b's i end up sweating my ass off waking up at 4-5 am and moving to another room and of course the tri male follows me and like someone else said he his fav position is w his head jammed into my armpit!
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ROFLMAO, here's a thought… when you get up and leave, shut the door.
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Most nights Jake sleeps in a crate. Once and a while I'll let him sleep in my bed.
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my boy also sleeps under the duvet….....and on top when he gets too hot. nice in winter but a pain in summer...lol..
our boy hasnt got the knack yet of finding his way back down under the covers after his spell on top.....he paws me, and grunts quietly i lift the covers ,say, IN and in he crawls funny for a while but the continual pawing does wake us alot...............but, he`s worth it. -
Cricket will nap on top of the covers, near the foot of the bed when we watch the TV. When the TV goes off, it takes a few seconds, but then she pokes Husband to lift the sheets, and snuggles underneath by our knees. By morning, she's sleeping on one of our pillows, either half under the blankets still, or wrapped around Husband's bald head. I have been woken up by tail hairs up my nose…
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Becca does the same thing. When she wants under the covers she will start pawing at your head. Then you lift the blanket and say Under and she contorts her body around and under the blankets. She always sleeps up by my head. More times than not I end up rolling over in the middle of the night and come nose to nose with her head on my pillow. Tucker really isn't an under the covers kind of guy. He sleeps on top right behind my knees. When he gets too hot he will roll onto his back with all four feet in the air and sleep like that. The will not sleep with each other. If Becca is under the blankets and Tucker gets up to move or wants to play he will start pulling the blankets back to find Becca. Then Becca starts to emit this horrible growl until he has the blankets off of her. We also have a king size bed and I think the dogs get more of it than my husband or I. I call them my little furnaces in the winter, they get soo warm!
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Isnt it amazing how they all follow the same sleeping habit….....
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Sayblee would poke me to raise the covers. Arwen sometimes will but Cara is snarky if she is in bed first so I grab her and let Arwen under first. At night sometimes Arwen will be on top of the covers if she got up for a drink because she won't risk Cara to get back in bed. Makes me sad and I wouldn't mind her waking me up to grab the bed guarder Cara, but she doesn't. I keep the bedroom COLD at night so at night they want under the covers.
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We finally got out dogs a cozi cave which has been a life saver. The now sleep in that at night and my husband and i are our alone space. I love my dogs but not enough to give up my time at night with my husband. When they get up at 6am to go outside they can come in the bed then but genrally it's just penny that does. Charlie will go right back to the cozy cave like a good puppah. I know they wish they could sleep in the bed with us cause at night I have to lay by the cozy cave untill they fall asleep (doesnt take long) so they dont get out and try and get on the bed. I feel bad soemtimes but it's just too much. It's like letting your children sleep in your bed every night … its just not doable for me. I miss snuggle time with thme so now we watch movies in our game room instead of inbed and stay out in the living room longer at night to watch tv so they can snuggle with us. But once we say "bed time" they know where to go. It's made the world of difference for us.
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My 2 each have their own beds and blankets. Max sleeps on my side and Shera sleeps on Hubbys side. They have soft blankets and get tucked in. In the morning they are allowed o the bed. Max will only come to bed after I get up and then he rolls,snorts,grunts and groans where I have slept.
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Well i was worried for allowing Maca and the new one, Laika to get on my bed, here on Mexico dongs arent allowed on bbeds, but the troubles starts with Maca growling and fighting with Laika, i left both outside now if they fight but looks like Maca are understanding that Laika can go to bed too. BUT will left outside time to time,
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I've been watching this thread for a few days now and am not surprised by the number of responses…
Our little guy sleeps in our bed, but still in his own little bed at the foot. Sometimes in the morning when his Daddy gets to go into work late, he gets a "bed-ride" to the top to cuddle. Lewie can totally tell when one of us needs actual furry cuddles, because on those nights, he forgoes his bed entirely and sleeps between us, all curled up... until he decides to stretch- at which point one of us will get out stretched paws to the chest...
When we go camping, he sleep inside the sleeping bag at the foot of the bed... I personally think he likes this arrangement the best
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Kipawa is the biggest bed bug I have ever seen! And many a night, like Sharron said, I am sleeping on the extreme edge of the bed while he is happily snoring away and taking up my side of the bed in a horizontal fashion. Do I push him away? No. Do I attempt in any way to reclaim some bedspace? No. Why? Because it is so darn comforting to feel his warm body against me.
Kipawa spends the entire night going under the blankets, coming out, going under the blankets, coming out … you get the drift. My husband sleeps super soundly, so I am on 'guard duty' every night, ready to lift the blankets for him to get under them. I have somehow built this into my sleep pattern. I can do it without actually waking up. And I know there must be a smile on my face when I do it.
Each time he heads under the blankets I get a free lick or two on my feet. I admit it feels really nice.
The first time he goes under the blankets every night, I get quite the foot and calf lick. Sometimes he spends a good 10 minutes on it. I think it relaxes him - it surely relaxes me.These are the kinds of things that endear this breed to us. They are such characters!
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Such cute stories. I wish my mix could sleep in the bed with me but he wants his own space. He likes the hardwood floor right now. I put pillows and blankets and towels on the floor but he wants nothing to do with them. Maybe when it becomes cold he will want to cuddle up to me a bit more. Other then that I am left with a bedless puppy.
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**This has been a fun read. I do so much enjoy reading these type stories and I'm often amazed at how simular yet different our B's are.
Peanut would hop on the bed the minute I climbed in and head right under the covers behind my knees. He wouldn't come out till morning no matter how warm it got.
When Zander entered the picture they would both share the bed, but it was 1 on one side of me and 1 on the other. As Zander got older and grouchier, Peanut just quit comin in at all and went & slept with mom.
Now it's just Zander, on top of the covers if the TV's on, but under the covers when it goes off. He stands and stares at my face till I lift the covers too. He'll also squirm up with his head on the pillow on occassions if it gets to warm under the covers.
That's when I get to wrap my arms around him and really snuggle him up….but those occassions are few and far between.**
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I got my boy when he was 5. When I went to pick him up, the guy I was getting him from was napping, with the dog. (He worked night shift). The wife went to get him and I met a couple other B's while she did. Guy comes out with
my boy, and I'm in love. He tells me that fella loves being under the covers. OK, well, I just don't want him under the covers. As with my first B we learn to make it work. My boy knows when I say "bedtime" to come to bed and he knows that he has his own blanket on top of the comforter to get under. Occasionally he will be active enough, in his sleep that the blanket falls off the side of the bed. That's when I get the cutest, little, gentle paw at my shoulder…. "Mom, I need a blankie"! Now, the couch is a whole different story... we fight over that. I'm constantly trying to tell him that we have to share, "blankie" included.:D:D:D
