My mom and I decided to make this dog bed. Lately, I have been really thinking of ways to get the dogs off of my bed. I knew I had to find a way that would make the dogs think they were still pretty much sleeping with me but not really sleeping with me. May I remind you that up until this point Oscar has slept with me in my bed, under my covers spooning me? Diego sleeps at my face. We sleep like a pack of wolves…well we are a pack and I am the alpha of course. You may have seen something similar on animal hoarders. This whole getting them off of my bed transition has really been difficult but I knew it had to be done. My lovely mother came down on a Saturday night and we contemplated ways to make this possible. We ended up going to home depot at 8 pm with a master plan in mind; we were going to build a wooden dog bed that would go over their two crates (covering them) and then have stairs leading up to the bed. The bed would be placed right next to mine so that they were still near me but no longer on top of me. After walking around trying to figure out which wood to buy and who would cut the sizes we needed we headed home around 9 pm to get our hammer on. We hammered away and before we knew it our masterpiece was created. I have to say---it is amazing. I have had it up for 2 weeks and her e is the progress:
Night one: they were too afraid to go on it
Night two through night seven: I put them on it at bed time and have to wake up and put them back on it pretty much every hour. Oscar paces around my bed crying and when he jumps up I push him off; heartbreaking.
Night 8-10: I am lonely and cold and so I cuddle and spoon with them all night- who cares about my progress or goals
Night 11-15: they sleep on it until I am fast asleep and I wake up to them spooning me, underneath the covers
Tonight: I want to cuddle with them so badly but this is the first night they are both sleeping on it soundly. But I want them in my bed. I can’t be selfish and give mixed signals. I leave them on the bed and we cuddle and spoon in the morning right when the sun comes up.
Stay tuned for future progress and enjoy pictures of the dog bed which inspired me and the dog bed that we created.
