Bed Time.
Tucker didn't always sleep with us in the bed. When he was just a little pup, he actually preferred to sleep in his pen we had set up downstairs. It's where he felt safest. It's where his food and water and blanket and bed were and I think it just made him feel cozy. Not to mention it was cooler down there. You see, for the first 9 months or so that we had Tucker, we let his hair grow and be free. I guess we were afraid if we cut it, it wouldn't grow right...or whatever. But then it was just out of control and the poor thing was a mess, so we cut it. But, I digress.
Anyway, we tried a couple times to bring him up in bed with us to sleep. Why, you ask? Why not just let him sleep downstairs in his own place and not muck up your own bed? I dunno, we just love our dogs and don't care if they sleep with us. But Tucker didn't want to have anything to do with it. He actually would sleep down at our feet for the first hour or so, then jump off and scratch at the door to be let downstairs. So we'd take him down and put him in his pen and he'd be content. Not a whine or peep out of him.
But then (and this is the reason I mentioned his haircut), it seems that after he was shaved down (almost neked! I'm telling you, his hair was atrocious - the groomer had to shave him down all the way) he actually started sleeping through the night with us. Not only that, but he'd curl up in a ball between our pillows and stay there the entire night.
And now, our bed is his bed, his bed is our bed. We all sleep one in the same. He loves bed time. He LOVES his bed. And he still curls up in a ball and sleeps between our pillows. Except now, he thinks that Woei's pillow is also his own and will lay his little, tired head on it and drift off to sleep.
This sort of makes Woei uncomfortable to have this furry thing sleeping right next to your head, but hey, he's a good dad.
And that's bed time!
