According to Dog Training:  Hot Tips for the Bedroom, about half of dog owners allow their dogs to sleep in bed.  This blog post makes some really good points and offers some excellent advice for those of us who do share their bed with their pups.  However, I think I have inadvertently ignored every single piece of advice given and I will probably continue to ignore this admittedly sound advice.

Why?  For one simple reason…in my book, there is absolutely nothing better than waking up to find that your dog has nestled under your armpit with his chin on your shoulder…

I enjoy this simple pleasure so much that I don’t even mind that Oscar tries to push me out bed!  Yes, you might not believe me, but it is possible for a 20lb dog to push a full-sized human being out of bed.  How, you ask?  Well, Oscar has this amazing ability to continuously adjust so that he is as close to you as possible.  So, every time you move an inch - he takes it.  Before you know it, you wake up in the middle of the night to find that you’re hanging onto the edge of the bed by a cheek and a shoulder.

Now I know someone is going to try to tell me that this is an act of dominance and Oscar is trying to assert himself as pack leader by pushing me out of bed, but that is just pure bull honky!  Little Osky just loves to snuggle!