The players:
Buster – 4yo M English Setter 80lbs
Birdie – 1.5yo F English Setter 70lbs
Me – 7 months pregnant
Husband
Hi everyone and thanks in advance for the advice! We recently had to change our sleeping arrangements with the dogs due to my belly getting bigger and there not being enough room anymore in the bed. I put below our ideal scenario and where we are currently but I’m unsure on next steps. Also is this all for naught because everything will change again when baby comes?
Ideal scenario – Dogs on bed while winding down for the night, they get off on cue and go to their beds, they come up again around 7am until we are up for the day.
Current situation – Dogs on bed while winding down for the night, they are pushed off by my husband as they are stubborn, we close a gate that we put up surrounding our bed so they CANNOT get up, the youngest asks to come up a few times a night and we tell her to go back to her bed and she does, 7am we open the gate and tell them they are allowed back up.
Some other notes:
We crate trained both of them as puppies but phased it out once potty trained.
Buster likes to be able to move between his bed and the hardwoods to cool off which is why we are penned in instead of the dogs.
Baby will be in her own room so we will be moving around a lot once she is here and navigating a gate in the dark isn’t my ideal scenario.
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