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| | Pets in BedPage 5 of 20 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20) | ok, lets keep it real now! If my 2 lb. kitten takes a dump and scoots her butt across my bed, (ewwww) thats a lot less to clean up then if my 250 lb. boyfriend does the same. (triple eww) Please visulize that, thank u very much. Oh by the way...as to it being unhealthy to have a pet in bed, did u know dog's mouth's has less bacteria then a humans? Hmmmmm.......... makes me think how UNHEALTHY people's mouth's are these days, especially if one REALLY thinks where folks put their mouths these days ...IF u know what I mean.  | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 5:52:10 PM | | I consider my dog as a family member. King bed......and he is right next to me. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 6:09:35 PM | You know one great thing about a cat is?
If there is a snake in the house she'll bolt out of the room, then come back in right quick realizing she forgot to tell her Owner about the snake she saw in his bedroom.
Ever see a woman do that???? ::smirks::
Okay maybe that wasn't a good example. I tried. | |
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locnar
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Msg: 104 | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 6:53:48 PM | | No problem with cats since they are small and usually sleep at the bottom of the bed like mine did. Dogs I wouldn't be crazy about sleeping with them. Snakes I will pass on as well. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 7:43:21 PM | | Big fat puddy always sleeps with me and whomever. I never had anyone object to puddy. Very sweet girl. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 8:30:06 PM | | I love pets...have 2 cats that sleep with me when they want to. I also love dogs..... however...my last bf had a huge lovable yellow lab that slept in his bed. I loved the dog BUT the bed was so full of dog hair that I felt like I was sleeping on fur sheets! The dog shed so much that even washing the sheets could not remove all of the dog hair...you know how hair gets caught in the fibers and won't come out!! YUK!! I always felt like I was sleeping in a dirty bed because of all the dog fur. If pets sleep with you they MUST be on the blanket not in the sheets!! | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 8:55:51 PM | Sharing my house/hearth with a balinese cat and a Shih-Tzu dog make for interesting dialogue, but they're both welcome in my bed, unless I have bed company. There's a line drawn in the sand where I part ways with my pets. If I'm sleeping alone, they're more than welcome, but otherwise, they need to sleep beyond the doorway.
That is unless my bedmate decides to harness one to her own desires. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 8:58:09 PM | I have five ferrets and they have the run of the house ...
ferrets tend to be most active at night ... ferrets like to tunnel ... especially under the sheets ... I sleep nekked ... curious critters ... tunneling ... under the sheets ... noses wanting to explore those forbidden zones ... are you feelin' my pain here?
actually, now only one of my kids gets on the bed at night ... it's kind of reassuring to know that he is just checking in because he climbs aboard, nuzzles me and jumps down ... I just have to make sure that ... he ... doesn't ... tunnel ... under the sheets ...
jeffery | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:18:08 PM | Ok I have to first say that it really depends for one on the pet. I have a cat that is my baby and I have always loved cats and felt that they are very clean pets. My cat sometimes sleeps with me, unless there is a thunderstorm and then hes convinced that the rain outside will somehow get his beautiful fur wet so he gets scared and lays on the stairway so he can't see the rain from the window.  He does this all the time, funny thing is I really don't have to watch the weather report on TV, my cat senses the weather really well! If kitty is glued to the stairway then I know a storm is coming and kitty is always right!
Ok, got off track with my cat story, sorry but I really love my cat. hmmm dogs in bed would be a big no way to me because dogs are not as clean as cats and take up too much space, unless you have one of those football size dogs, but then usually they yap to much. I'm single so I have no problem with my cat sharing the blankets with me and my pillow whenever he likes.
If I was married then my wife would need to accept that my cat would be on the same level of acceptance as most any woman might say who has children. "accept me accept my kids or get lost" The only time that my cat would not be allowed in the bedroom would be during love making with my wife. I love my cat, but there are certain moments and things that I don't want cat eyes seeing. Other then at that time though, I would have no issue with my cat coming to snuggle with my wife and I in the bedroom.
I had a cat in my life for almost 20 years. He lasted longer then some of my relationships and I find that to be true with many other people too. Love me, love my cat. Or...u are not worth my time. C'mereeeeeeeee ""snookums" have your pillow ready right next to momeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. LOL
^^^^ This was the best I love it! LOL Thank you for making me smile and laugh. We really do love our pets and want the best for them. They are family and yes I talk to my cat in very interesting ways too. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:26:21 PM | | i have two dogs and both my girls have their places to sleep, my hound sleeps on her own bed most of the time... sometimes she sleeps with me.... my little girl is a snuggle bug...never too far from me.. the way I look at it is if they like you, maybe we have a chance... if they don't, then good luck with someone else.. as for the bed, they were here first and that would be something that you would have to deal with... | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:35:51 PM | Flipper jones wrote:
I think our Human relationships should come first. I think it's pretty unhealthy (in every way) to have a pet in your bed with you.
I think there is something fundamentally wrong with this sentence, just my opionion. The poster has segregated the species into the compartments. Cats have their own compartment, dogs have another and humans are in the third one, and the most important, because he belongs to this spices. If I was going to take it further, I am certain the same poster would suggest that the life of animal is of less importance than of human. I am sorry I don't feel this way. My relationship/interraction with my animals, in my case cats is different from relationship with human, but I would not call it less important than human. I do communicate with my cats on a different level, non-verbal .... just because they are not able to speak for themselves, it doesn't qualify them as less important. I think certain cultures revered cats, and found they had healing qualities. So to say that to have a pet in your bed with you is unhealthy, is some sort of unhealthy opinion based on no facts? How is it unhealthy when opposite is true.
same poster writes:
Some people just feel like there should be a line there. A point where pet space ends and people space begins.
I am certainly not that person, and why would anyone feel there has got to be a line? Not allowing them on bed with me is this drawing a line? Maybe not allowing them scractching my furniture, allowing them on tables where people eat, etc. I agree, but as long as I am able to sit on this chair or lay down on this bed, there is no line.
OK, I will share with you a poem that reflects how I feel about cats, I believe they are more advanced than we, human are:
I put down my book
The Meaning of Zen
And see the cat smiling into her fur
as she delicately combs it with her rough, pink tongue.
‘Cat, I would lend you this book to study
but it appears that you have already read it.’
She looks up and gives me her full gaze.
‘Don’t be ridiculous’ she purrs. ‘I wrote it’ | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:45:50 PM | Tut at who ever wrote pets belong outside!
I have a small yorkie , its a pet not a guard dog !
Sorry im pissed off i hate people who think animals should be stuck in the cold, wind and rain and hope who ever wrote that does not own an animal!
I agree pets shouldnt be in the bed.
Its not healthy.
However i had another yorkie who went senile before he died and became like a baby and kicked off for attention and easiest thing was to take him to bed and he would chill out.
I wouldnt have brought him to bed with someone else in it tho!
Im a soft touch when it comes animals and the ones i own have needs and wants too!
Tut again at pets outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gone to bed seethin | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:48:01 PM | Oh and just one more thing, my exs dog was a heavy weigh shar pai.
Always came slept with me when ex went to work and i wasnt arguin with him lmao | |
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| The Ancients Respected Animals-- Cats--They Prob. got their own bed...lol
Posted: 10/17/2007 9:54:12 PM | CAT FACTS, SUPERSTITIONS AND BELIEFS THROUGH THE AGES
ANCIENT EGYPT
In ancient Egypt, a rich man's cat was elaborately mummified, wound 'round and 'round with stuff and cunningly plaited with linen ribbons dyed two different colours. His head was encased in a rough kind of papier-mache that was covered with linen and painted, even gilt sometimes, the ears always carefully pricked up. The mummy might be enclosed in a bronze box with a bronze statue of the cat seated on the top. Even a finer burial might await a particularly grand cat. A poor man's cat was rolled up in a simple lump, but the rolling was carefully and respectfully done. William Martin Conway (1856 - 1937)
When a cat died, a wise Egyptian tried to be someplace else so that he couldn't be accused of its murder. If a cat died in a private house by a natural death, all the residents shaved their eyebrows. Herodotus (480 - 425 B.C.)
The Egyptian Fertility Goddess Bast was often represented by a cat and worshipped in a vast cult in Egypt from 1780 B.C. until A.D. 392. One version of her name, "Pasht", might have given rise to the English term "puss".
Ra (also known as Osiris), Egyptian Sun God, supposedly changed himself into a cat to do battle with the serpent-like darkness.
ANCIENT ROME
In Ancient Rome, not a single cat's bone has been found at Pompeii, in spite of the fact that it was regularly visited by Greeks from Eygpt. Rome knew so little about the uses of the cat that their rough soldiers and their vain leaders never understood the feelings of Egyptians for their cats. Once when the Nile area was occupied by Caesar and his army, a Roman soldier was mobbed and murdered savagely in a street in Alexandria. The crowd, accusing him of having accidentally killed a cat, threw themselves on him, lynched him, and dragged his corpse the length and breadth of the town. Deaf to the Roman threats of severe reprisals, the Egyptians rose and resistance began. It did not stop until the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, when Egypt, at last effectively defeated, became a Roman province; and the cat, formerly worshipped, was ostracized. Fernand Mery, The Lift, History and Magic of the Cat
Diana, Greek Goddess of Wisdom, was represented by the moon, a potent cat symbol throughout the ages.
ENGLAND
Charles I of England (1600 - 1649) had a black cat, which he carried with him everywhere he went, claiming that the cat was his luck. When the cat died, the king wailed, "My luck is gone!" He was arrested the next day and later beheaded. Leonore Fleischer, The Cat's Pajamas
She useth therefore to wash her face with her feet, which she licketh and moiseneth with her tongue; and it is observed by some that if she put her feet beyond the crown of her head in this kind of washing, it is a sign of rain. John Swan, Speculum Mundi (1643)
There are some who if a cat accidentally come into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat, and ready to die Increase Mather (1639 - 1723)
In England, the superstitious still hold the cat in high esteem, and oftentimes when observing the weather, attribute much importance to its various movements. Thus, according to some, when they sneeze it is a sign of rain. T.F. Dyer (1889)
SWEDEN/NORWAY
In 1699, at the Swedish town of Mora, 300 children were accused of employing demon cats to steal butter, cheese, and bacon. Fifteen of the children were killed, and every Sunday for a year, 36 were whipped before the church doors. Time, December 1981
In Norse mythology, two gray cats drew the chariot of Freya, Scandinavian Goddess of Love and Beauty. The cats also played around her ankles as a symbol of her domesticity.
MISCELLANEOUS
A crafty, subtle, watchful Creature, the mortal enemy to the Rat, Mouse, and all sorts of Birds, which it seizes on as its prey. As to its Eyes, Authors say that they shine in the Night, and see better at the full, and more dimly at the change of the Moon.
It is a neat and cleanly Creature, often licking it self, to keep it fair and clean, and washing its Face with its fore-feet. They usually generate in the winter Season, making a great noise.
Its Flesh is not usually eaten, yet in some Countries it is accounted an excellent dish, but the Brain is said to be poisonous, causing madness, stupidity, and loss of memory, which is cured only by vomiting, and taking musk in Wine. The flesh applied easeth the pain of Haemorrhoids; and the back, salted, beaten, and applied, draws Thorns, etc., out of the Flesh, and is said particularly to help the Gout. William Salmon, The English Physician
TO WHIP A CAT
The slang phrases "To whip a cat" and "to draw through the water with a cat" mean to practice a practical joke. The origin is given in Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongues (1785) as follows: "A trick often practiced on ignorant country fellows by laying a wager with them that they may be pulled through a pond by a cat; the bet being made, a rope is fastened round the waist of the person to be catted, and the end thrown across the pond, to which the cat is also fastened, and three or four sturdy fellows are appointed to lead and whip the cat; these on a signal given, seize the end of the rope, and pretending to whip the cat, haul the astonished booby through the water."
The Oxford English Dictionary, which has six columns of fine print on the word cat, cites a 1725 letter to the London Gazette: "We hope, sir, that this Nation will be too Wise to be drawn twice through the same Water by the very same Cat."
A statue of 1618 forbids the inhabitants of Ypres the pleasure of hurling a cat from their tower on the second Wednesday of Lent, as had been their honored custom for years. Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950) The Fireside Sphynx
The cat's homing instinct is phenomenal. One family pet, given to friends in California, set out on a 1,400-mile trip back to its original owner in Oklahoma. When the bedraggled cat arrived in Oklahoma 14 months later, it was positively identified by an old hipbone deformity. The People's Almanac #2
The cat is the only animal, other than the camel and the giraffe to walk by moving its front and hind legs on one side, then the other. William H.A. Carr, The Basic Book of the Cat
Tsun-Kyanské, the Burmese Goddess of the Transmutation of Souls, was attended by priests and their cats, animals supposedly able to communicate directly with the goddess.
The Babylonian Gods of Silver, Gold, and Wood were depicted with cats sitting on their shoulders.
Siamese (Thai) Kings, believed godlike, required a cat for their souls to pass into upon death, so that the soul could rest for the cat's natural life span before entering Paradise.
Malaysians venerated the cat as a godlike creature who eased their afterlife journey from Hell to Paradise. Anyone who killed a cat was required to carry and stack as many coconut tree trunks as the cat had hairs...
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Posted: 10/17/2007 9:58:56 PM |
I consider my dog as a family member. King bed......and he is right next to me.
Amen
I could never put my 4lb. or 7lb. dog outside...not even my three legged Shepard is left outside-I know if she could get on the bed she would. I would have to draw the line...no place for me...mind you if I had a king-size bed!!!
I can handle 11lbs of dog on the bed...they even have their own blankie! | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 10:19:56 PM | Just adding few pieces of informaton to agelesspirit:
BASTET - The goddess Bastet was usually represented as a woman with the head of a domesticated cat. However, up until 1000 BC she was portrayed as a lioness. Bastet was the daughter of Re, the sun god. It may have been through him that she acquired her feline characteristics. When Re destroyed his enemy Apep, he was usually depicted as a cat. As portrayed as a cat, she was connected with the moon (her son Khonsu was the god of the moon). When shown as a lioness, she is associated with sunlight.
....Egyptians believe, when a cat in the family dies, to show respect, they display the body outside of the home.
Bastet was the goddess of fire, cats, of the home and pregnant women. According to one myth, she was the personification of the soul of Isis. She was also called the "Lady of the East". As such, her counterpart as "Lady of the West" was Sekhmet.
Because domestic cats tend to be tender and protective toward their offspring, Bastet was also regarded as a good mother, and she was sometimes depicted with numerous kittens. Consequently, a woman who wanted children sometimes wore an amulet showing the goddess with kittens, the number of which indicated her own desired number of children. | |
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Posted: 10/17/2007 10:57:52 PM | | You should object if its a dog! What other animal on earth eats cat shit rolls in dead animal carcasses. Eats garbage eats there own vomit then want to bring there Fleas to your bed and lick your face ( after they lick ,,well ya know) | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 4:31:45 AM | Reasons #76 through #82 why cats are better than dogs...lol.
But seriouslysilvertone52, other than that, what's so wrong with it?
I don't discriminate against non human animals. They don't discriminate against me. | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 9:18:01 AM | | What about mice and gerbals in bed? Is that going a bit far? Just curious? | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 9:27:58 AM | If the animal is keep groomed I really dont have a problem with it  | |
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u
| | Joined: 5/24/2006
Msg: 121 | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 10:19:32 AM | Well when I used to sleep in the dog house they didn't mind to much
as long as I had a bath first | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 10:28:26 AM | I live with animals. And you never know when i might rescue and drag something home. I have lived with coons, skunks, cats, dogs, etc. As long as they leave me a corner of my pillow, and some of my freaking blanket, i'm fine.
And as for dumping someone over them. I had a girlfriend for awhile, and she yelled at my Namek, (Shitzu and yellow lab). Namek still has his own pillow that he sleeps on with his head on mine. She was gone that day. Does that answer your question? Yell at my babies, and out you go. No questions asked. | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 11:07:15 AM | ^^^^
Love your post, kallamis, I'd do the same. Some folks come and go, but your pets are your true soul mates. My ex pretended to love cats in order to get into my good graces. Imagine my surprise when our son came home and told me that the very same fellow was badmouthing cats and didn't actually like them! If I'd known then what I know now, I never would have married him. | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 11:29:17 AM | | I've made it pretty clear even in my profile i think, that my animals are the true rulers here. I just kind of serve them, and they let me stay around. Works out perfectly. | |
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handsm
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Msg: 125 | |
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Posted: 10/18/2007 11:44:29 AM | No. I personally do not let any pets in my bedroom. I have a pitbull - and HE has the other bedroom - AND the KING bed...with a fancy brass headboard...mine is simple wood :( I've found out long ago not to p*ss him off with anything - or he will have BOTH beds.
As for my 'honey', (she) would have to object to...the dog. | |
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