Do you give your animals the run of the full house?

LegacyUser

I am curious if you let your pets have the run of the house.
Poll is limited to dogs and cats only ...

By the run of the house is - dogs and cats cat go wherever they want .. i.e sleep on your bed during the day .. lounge on the sofa in the main room .... etc

Glowing

My greyhounds would love nothing more than to have a nap in my bed, but they haven't learnt to climb the stairs!!! They follow us around the house, then stop at the bottom of the stairs just looking up ...... ! One of them got up once, but she couldn't get back down, but the other hasn't even tried! I know greys are lazy ... but this is really taking it far!

I have outdoor animals.
They come inside to escape each other, or to be fawned over, or have a nap by the fire in winter.
They want to be where the people are, the kitchen or the sitting room.

The Artist

my dogs are left outside depends on the weather,they hate the rain!
They go out at about 9am and in about 7pm and do nothing but snores and farts.
They sleep any where weres its warm.If the fire not lit they sleep on our beds.
They have a great life!(lazy!):)

Orlee

I've 2 cats and they're allowed everywhere except the garage/utility room

I'd loose them in there!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Everywhere is there's.

Intothesea

No limitations on cats, sofa/bed
barring orders on dogs

mel123

Full run of the house when i am there. Tho i do wish i hadnt got into the habit of letting her (dog) sleep in the bedroom, but it was just to hard to let her keep barking and crying in the early hours of the morning when she was left downstairs as a puppy!!!

CrowdedHouse

Outside during the day when we're not there,they have boxes/beds in the shed.

Almost full run of the house otherwise,but wouldn't be let sleep in the bedroom.They sleep in the kitchen.

Full run of bathroom did =

hadook

Cats have free run, dogs are curtailed.

It's a hard life being a dog here - you have to sleep on the sofa

carwash_2006

Cats have the front of the house and their outdoor cat proof run, we do shut them out of the bedroom at night mostly because I find they tend to decide to tear around the place at four in the morning. I wouldn't mind, but hubby is a lighter sleeper than me and gets grumpy if disturbed at that hour.

Dogs are confined to the hall and study when we're out and get that and the garden when were home. I couldn't leave everyone the full run of the house all the time or the cats would be history. The dogs are terriers with a huge prey drive and could not be trusted with the cats unsupervised.

The cats know to stay away from opening doors, which has the advantage of detering them from trying to get through doors and thus escaping out into the big wide world and very busy road.

WindSock

I have a wee westie at the moment, so he is fine roaming the house. He doesn't get up to much anyway and just follows me everywhere and sleeps. I had a bigger and livelier collie before and he wasn't allowed into the bedrooms. Dogs on beds = No

Havermeyer

I have an Irish terrier and we give him the run of the house. He's fairly well behaved so there's no problem with it. The only place we have to keep an eye on him is the kitchen.

cobweb

I haven't a dog at the moment but when I was at home my dogs slept on my bed and had run of house were left in if we were only gone a few hours, if longer left out back with access to beds and food bowls in conservatory. My own dog had run of house once she was toilet trained except she slept in kitchen at night as husband couldn't get used to her kicking him when she was alseep on bed. She tended to creep up and snuggle between us.

hairymolly

My rescue jackrussel mix has the run of kitchen, hall and sitting room. Never gave her the habit of bedrooms, so whenever I go into my bedroom she sits outside the open door and cries until I come out.

muckety

Cats are hard to contain, they go wherever they like. Dogs are outdoors, just in for a while in the evening for a cuddle.

ValerieR

Dog and cats have the run of the full house. The dog goes on the sofa only when we are and never on the bed though he wouldn't mind ! ;-)
I haven't started bringing the horse indoors yet :-D

ValerieR

lubie76

My cats definitely think its their house and have the full run. They come in and out the top storey bedroom window at night as they please and one of them even uses our toilet as he thinks litter trays are for peasants.

The Artist

quote=lubie76;56048856 one of them even uses our toilet

reminds me of the cat called mr jinks in meet the parents:)

chickenhawk

I have a collie and she is allowed everywhere downstairs in the house. But she spends all day outside anyways so it's just in the evenings and at night that she is in.

the_syco

My westie is allowed all downstairs. Due to tearing some ligament, she can't climb the stairs anymore but isstill carried up there, from time to time


Saying that, she usually just suns herself in the sitting room

Bainne2

Dogs are only allowed in the kitchen as my dad is allergic(or supposedly anyways I think it was just he wasn't even used to having dogs indoors at all :eek:) Though I think this winter they will be allowed all of downstairs as Bainne is getting older

Abeona the bunny has full run of my room day and night - I normally wake up to bunny kisses and Nod the cat isn't able to come inside as both my sis and dad are allergic to him. We never intended on keeping him and in a couple of years I shall be moving out and he'll come with me as an indoor pussy and have a wonderfull life from then on...

Trinity

mel123 wrote: »

Full run of the house when i am there. Tho i do wish i hadnt got into the habit of letting her (dog) sleep in the bedroom, but it was just to hard to let her keep barking and crying in the early hours of the morning when she was left downstairs as a puppy!!!

Same as that, but had to train him to sleep downstairs when i had the baby, dog sheds unbelieveably!! But before that he was on the bed.

mags16

My dog used to sleep in my bed but it had to stop cos she was like a little furnace. Too darned hot - and not in a good way. My boyfriend understandably wasn't too keen on her in the leaba either.
She now has the full run of the house but I keep the bedroom doors shut.
If I forget, there is nothing she likes more than having a sneaky nap on a pillow.

turtle dubh

My 2 Labs have full run of the house, they dont go near the couch or my bed. They have there own beds which they love. They both come and wake me up every morning at same time so no alarm clock needed .

rliston

have a sheepdog that will not pass the door, but if there's thunder going she'll keep scratching at the door until she's let in!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Our Rough Collie is outside 24/7 except when there is thunder or fireworks, when she scratches at the door to get inside. Any other time you couldn't get her to come in for love nor money.

Gary ITR

My lab has the run of the house. He has the wooden floors destroyed but nobody can give out to him... He sleeps in the front room downstairs so he can look out the window and when the back door is open he hides upstairs in case he's about to be fecked out into the garden

fatmammycat

The three cats here have the run of the place, in and out all day, but I shut them in the garage with their food and beds around 11 every night and let them back out at 7 am. That way I can sleep in peace and quiet and they can't get up to mischief or worse- get killed. When I have a dog he can go where he wants around the house too, but no to being up on the furniture. He can have his own bed.

Pigletlover

We started off trying to confine him to the kitchen, then we let him into the sitting room, but he wasn't allowed on the couch...now he goes wherever he likes! He's fairly good though, just wants to be wherever we are so it's easy to keep an eye on him. He's left in the utility at night though, as much as I love him I couldn't sleep with a dog in the bed every night.

Ruu_Old

I have 2 cats, not allowed in kitchen (but they try despite me trying numerous things without success) or bedrooms. They have their own room anyway.

kerrysgold

Yep, they go wherever they like except no bedroom for the big fella unless I'm with him as shoes/socks/clothes would be destroyed, and no bathroom either since he is partial to some toilet tissue shredding as well.

wyk

You'd be amazed how good my Grey is with stairs, then. She can make it to the second floor in 2 leaps.

She generally has the run of the house.


WYK

Glowing wrote: »

My greyhounds would love nothing more than to have a nap in my bed, but they haven't learnt to climb the stairs!!! They follow us around the house, then stop at the bottom of the stairs just looking up ...... ! One of them got up once, but she couldn't get back down, but the other hasn't even tried! I know greys are lazy ... but this is really taking it far!

Ginger

We have a polydactyl Norwegian Forest cat and live in a ground floor apartment. She sleeps where she likes and has her favourite spots including our bed which which will jump in with us at night.

She is good in that she is house trained and wont go in the house at all, preferring to go outside.. doesnt climb on tables, wont steal food, drinks water out of the fish bowl but wont go near the fish

Our little mutant cat is a bit off the wall really!

Edit: found out what breed she is

Sage'sMama

My cat Sage has the run of our apartment, cant put her outside were three storeys up and then we have an upstairs in the attic as well. She sleeps in bed at nite with me and my partner and during the day she sleeps in the linen press or on the spare bed. She's allowed do whatever she likes we spoil her rotten!

LegacyUser

Alan Ford wrote: »

They go out at about 9am and in about 7pm and do nothing but snores and farts.

Ha Ha ... and we thought it was just us! Don't mind the snores .. but the tooting, especially in the car is way out!
I really appreciate all the replies on the poll. I think we are in the yes, but with some limitations. The pictures posted were hilarious becuase I can sooo identify with them - especially the one with the ripped up jax roll and the two little stinkies smiling up all innocent

Sharpshooter

Two indoor cats that have the run of the house,
only cause they are litter trained and would not hear of
going anywhere else. They have a litter tray each(cause each thinks they are better than the other and above
using the others tray) FUSSY!!!
One pom pup who is 5 months old and although is now
also trained in that department is not above making
little mistakes, and if you cant see her you dont know what she is leaving behind,unless you are in your bare feet,So she is confined to the kitchen at night with her toys and her (pigs ear) which she loves to chew on,
its like a teething ring for puppies,(replaced when needed) so l guess its up to your animals routine and
personality what you do.:)

shinners007

My boxers are in their runs in the day when im not at home, otherwise there free to roam around the outside of the house and surrounding fields( joys of living in no mans land!!!) then brought in to the house after their evening walk and then they sleep in their own kennels at night.

My mini yorkie has access to all the house and has explored every bit of it and even jumping into the dryer when i left it open! She sleeps in our bed every night and even in the day or evening when she wants a nap she heads up to "our" bed - i bought her fab soft beds and even left them in the room but she wont sleep in them so i just let her in the bed as she's so small and lazy you wouldnt really know she was there at all!! Know id miss her too much and would never dream of not having her sleeping with us.:o

kazzpop

i have two cats - 1 male and 1 female, the male cat likes to roam around outdoors during the day time, and at night he comes in and goes to bed - he sleeps much same as us. has about 4-5 beds around the house - he never sleeps in any of them - likes to curl up with us in our bed or better still lies out on the leather sofa!!!! cheeky thing !! - bad habits
the female cat - is rescure cat - she is afraid of her own shadow, never goes out- and if she did she cries to get back in. she has full run of the house. when we are in. If we go out both cats stay in the house and can go anywhere accept for leather sofa - tv room which we locked the doors ! - Female cat has her own bed - hanging off the rads- she loves- probably the best bed buy we got!

Bluefrog

Holly, my rescue lab boxer cross, has the run of downstairs now and about the first 5 steps of the stairs when I'm up there. She doesn't really want to venture any further anyway cause that's where the bath is!

On the odd very stormy night I will let her sleep in the bedroom on her bed cause she gets a bit freaked out by the wind (where was this dog raised???) and she'll cry if I leave her in the kitchen which is her usual boudoir.

I have to confess to letting her snuggle with me on the couch if I think either of us have had a hard day.

Alfasudcrazy

My dobies have the full run of the outside - limited of course by the pet safe electric fence which borders the property.

Id love to let them in the house but 'others' disagree. I have left them in a few times when everyone was away but you don't realise how massive and strong they are until you see them up on the kitchen table eating a loaf of bread. :eek:

They do have a comfortable dog house (with automatic air heating for those frosty nights) in the garage as well as assorted dog baskets / smaller houses and so are not too upset when the weather gets bad.

My collie envies the way my cat can jump up on the windowsill and get in through open windows. He tried it himself a few times but it did not go so well for him. In any case he likes to be outdoors most of the time but is just jealous of the cat being left in. My cat stays in during bad weather but once the sun is out she is off on her travels all around the neighbourhood. She sleeps in my room at night but prefers her own little bed.

Since I got her I have never needed to set the alarm clock as she wakes me up every morning at 6am sharp to be left out fed etc. :rolleyes:

iguana

Our dogs are not allowed upstairs and they are not allowed on the furniture. At night, and when we are out, they are in the kitchen and have a dog-flap so they can play in the back garden.

Chitterchatter

Cats have full run of the house until it's bed time and then are confined to the kitchen and secured outdoor area - although 1 or 2 nights a week they are free to wonder.

i_hate_rain

Gizmo my jack russel is allowed everywhere in the house he even sleeps in the bed even though he has 4 of his own

If I ever have kids Gizmo wont be kicked out of the bed hes too spoilt and hes like a hot water bottle at my feet though sometimes we have to share the pillows when he decides to sleep like a human in between us:o

Pollydoodles

My lot were confined to indoors until I moved two years ago. Snotzer the cat was an indoor cat for 10 years now she loves lounging in the Greenhouse in the daytime but over the years any cats I had I always brought at night (Foxes)! The three dogs Spandau, Beckyboo and Pollydoodles have the full run of the house and sleep in the bed with me. I have to change the bedclothes every two days because of the hairs and when they are moulting its unreal the amount of hair they leave everywhere! The upside is they are all very happy and loved and VERY well behaved. You can love your pets and still let them know who the boss is!!!!

michelleans

Jake is allowed in every room except our bedroom, he is not allowed on the furniture. He has his bed in his crate and loves the crate.

Flojo

My dog is allowed everywhere and she sleeps on our beds. We have blankets at end of the bed so that she doesn't get hairs everywhere.

Shes a Lab+Retri cross but kinda small, perfectly house trained and quite the lady, she wont go outside if its raining heavily and once got out of a lake just to pee. :P

Wouldn't have it any other way to be honest, shes like a human.