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Showing posts with label Bed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bed. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Couple Custom-Builds ‘Mega Bed’ So All 8 Of Their Rescue Dogs Can Sleep With Them


For most of us, our rescue animals are like family. From the moment we take them home, we blend them into our daily lives and quickly grow to love them fiercely.

It’s pretty clear that the couple in this story feel that way about their rescue dogs — all eight of them! They love their pooches so much, and feel so strongly that they are part of their family, that they did something that not many pet owners do — they allowed all of their pets to sleep in one bed with them!

To read more on this story, click here: Couple Custom-Builds ‘Mega Bed’ So All 8 Of Their Rescue Dogs Can Sleep With Them



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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Couple Has Special Extra Large Bed Made So Their Eight Rescue Dogs Can Sleep with Them


All dog owners will know that once a pet finds the perfect spot on your bed, they’re not willing to give it up.

Nope, not even if you drop a load of cash on the fanciest dog bed you can find. They’re not budging.

After months of struggle to sleep comfortably with all eight of their dogs in one bed, one couple came up with a creative solution.

Chris and Mariesa Hughes are the couple behind The Mr. Mo Project, a senior dog rescue that places senior and sick dogs in foster homes.


They have eight dogs of their own, and were struggling to get a proper night’s sleep with all of the dogs trying to fit in one bed.

So they had a local craftsman build them a giant mega-bed, with plenty of space for themselves and all eight dogs.

Chris told metro.co.uk: “When we go to bed, all of the dogs try to beat us there and take up all the space on the bed.

We didn’t want to allow one dog and not the other so we would manage and often times wake up needing a hip replacement.

Having this bed allows all of the dogs to not only sleep on the bed with us but to also allow us to sleep comfortably.”

The couple hired Michael, who runs Michael’s Custom Interiors, to create the bed, which is fourteen feet long and seven feet wide.

The bed takes two mattresses and is twice the size of your average king-size.
It also features under-bed storage, plus a little set of stairs for the dogs who have trouble jumping up on to the bed.

“We are sleeping very well,’ said Chris. “Each one of the dogs has his or her spot and it makes it easy now.

Gremlin will sleep up at the top of the bed with us and often use one of our pillows. Stig will wait until the light goes off and then jump up with Mariesa and lay under the covers next to her.  Sammy likes to sleep at the bottom of the bed under the covers until he gets too hot and then he moves on top of the covers.

Money sleeps on the bottom of the bed with his paws in the air, Quinn sleeps wherever he can find a spot, Meatball sleeps as close to Chris as possible.”

“Tejas is the only dog that likes his space so he usually sleeps on one of the many decorative dog beds on the floor. Mabel will start out sleeping next to Chris under the covers but because she only weighs 3 pounds we move her to a pack and play next to the bed so she doesn’t get stepped on.

They love it, they love the space. They always want to close to us, and each other. They respect our space now, and we’re all able to get a good night’s sleep.”

This is great news. They really need a good night’s sleep to be able take care of the dogs.

The bed is now big enough to accommodate a few new pups, if Chris and Mariesa end up adopting more.







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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Does Your Pet Sleep with You? A New Study Suggest it Might Not Be a Bad Idea


Do you ban your dog from the bed in the hopes of getting a better night's sleep?

It may be time to beg your pooch's forgiveness and hope he'll join you at bedtime, after all.

A recent study finds that sleeping with pets actually helps some people sleep better because it gives them a sense of security — and despite what sleep experts have said for years, pets don't really disrupt our sleep.

"I'm not sure that there's a hard and fast rule about pets [in bed]. My community of colleagues do think that it is just always a risk," says Dr. Lois Krahn, a sleep medicine specialist at Mayo Clinic Center for Sleep Medicine in Arizona, and one of the paper's authors

The study's findings are good news for many. Half of American households own pets and half of those pets sleep either right in the bed with us or somewhere in the bedroom.

To conduct the study, Krahn asked 150 respondents fill out a sleep questionnaire that included questions about their companion animals. It asked for details about the type and number of animals in the home as well as what their sleeping habits were. During a subsequent interview, respondents were asked where the pets slept, how the pets behaved, and whether or not pets affected their own sleep.







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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Japanese Cat Owners Have Transformed a Popular Doll Bed from IKEA into Beds for Their Pets


The Duktig, a popular and widely known doll bed from IKEA, was cleverly transformed into beds for their pet cats and other pets by a few cat owners in Japan. Although the bed was originally meant for children’s dolls and cost $20 each, the Duktig was then modified by the pet owners to cater to the needs of their pets. Also, it has been designed by taking into consideration all the aspects related to cats. Both the ends of the bed are left uncovered, due to which they can easily stick out their tails whenever they wish to relax.

Also, the same bed can be used by other animals too. Rabbits and dogs have found the bed to be highly comfortable and are appreciating the bed. Also, a few pet owners have gone a step ahead and have converted the pet beds into bunk beds for multiple pets.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

How to Train Your Cat To Let You Sleep Sometimes


Cats sleep sixteen hours a day—but not in a row. They take naps and wake up round the clock. Their sleeping schedule is somewhat like an infant's. Whereas most adult humans like to sleep through the night. So you can see the potential for conflicts. But every conflict is an opportunity for a win-win resolution.

When cats do sleep, sometimes they use your bed, or use you as a bed, because they want to be close to you. This is endearing, but some people have trouble sleeping with a cat layed out on their stomach.

So there are two issues with which this article deals: cats awake at night, making noise, and cats asleep at night, taking over the bed.

To read more on this story, click here: How to Train Your Cat To Let You Sleep Sometimes

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