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St. Paul, MN

My medium-sized mutt is an excellent sleeping partner. I used to think I
didn’t want a dog in my bed, but the clever guy figured out that I sleep too
deeply to wake up if he joins me after I fall asleep, so I had to admit
defeat, not wanting to kick him out of the bedroom entirely. He spends most of
the night sleeping under the bed in a nest he’s constructed out of a ratty old
comforter, reflecting the fact that my husband still prefers not to have a dog
in the bed with us and actually will wake up if there’s an incursion, and hops
up to curl up at the foot once my husband gets up for work, then snoozes there
out of the way until I get up. When my husband is out of town, he’ll join me
earlier in the night, but not necessarily from the start. He’s very still and
not at all a bed hog, so he’s a perfect sleeping companion. Once he realizes
that I’m up, he bounces over to give me a good morning licking. The routine
was exactly the same for the year my son shared our room after his birth,
except that he was also a recipient of the morning greeting after he finished
nursing. I wouldn’t say that I’m entirely a convert to having dogs in the bed,
but I’m certainly not as opposed as I used to be as long as they’re good about
sharing the space.

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was a really good story.