ASK UNCUT: "My partner HATES my dog sleeping in the bed"

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Alicia wants her dog to keep sleeping in the bed, but her partner does NOT agree. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hi Heart podcasts, hear more Kiss podcast playlist, and listen
live on the free iHeart app. Now it is Thursday,
which means it is time for what we do every Thursday,
and that is ask Guncut, where you guys give us
a call and you tell us you're deep as dark
as problems, and even though we have absolutely no qualifications
or skills, necessarily we do our best to answer them

(00:31):
and give the life advice to save you a bit
of money.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We actually have qualifications. You say that every.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Week, Well, we do this on our podcast, Life Uncut
podcast and that's been going pretty good for us specific since,
so we thought we're bring across anywa. We got Alisha
on the phone. Hi Alisha, Hi guys.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Alisha, what is going on in your house?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
My partner doesn't really like having my dog in our bed.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
How long have you been with your partner for and
is this a new problem or is it the problem
that's always existed.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, we're reaching like a three year mark. It's been
two and a half years. This is actually a new thing.
We only moved in maybe like a year goes so,
but it's just happened and I'm kind of freaking out
about it. Because like, whoa where did this come from?

Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's like I've cheated? Hang on, where does this come from?
So a few questions? Hang on, we need to set
the scene. Are we talking Chihuahua or Great Dane?

Speaker 3 (01:25):
No, it's brutles. So he's a little big.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh, goodles are big, okay? And I don't even know
what a goodle is. It's a goodle. They're big. They're
very big Golden Retriever poodles.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sorry, sorry, I just did a quick google. There's three sizes, miniature,
medium and standard. Miniature is fifteen kilos, twenty two kilos
or thirty kilos.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Fifteen kilos been the smallest. That's still big.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
It is a standard okay, right?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Twenty two?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So important question?

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Was the godle a part of your life before you
met your partner or did you bring it in to
your life together as a couple.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, he's my dog. So I've had him for five
years and he's just kind of getting on a beard,
I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Getting on.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
The girdle. The girdle.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I slept in your bed for five years, and now
your partner's decided that it's just too much and the
dog needs to go and sleep in a dog bed.
I understand that to be Yeah, do you know I
had a very similar situation, so I have My dog
is much bigger than this, he's forty kilos and he
used to sleep in bed with me every single night.
And then I met my husband, and then also my
husband would start sleeping in bed with us. And at

(02:29):
one point we've been together for about eight months, Matt
woke up in the middle of the night and he said,
I've had enough. He's like, I can't do this anymore.
And this is the first time we'd ever had a
conversation about it. He was like, it's me or the dog.
The dog has to sleep in a dog bed. I
can't sleep with a dog in the bed anymore. And
unfortunately for Buster, the ultimatum did stick and Matt got
to stay in the bed even though I threatened to

(02:50):
put him in the dog bed. And Buster is now
in a dog bed next to Can you not get
a dogbed next to the bed? I feel like that's
a good solution, so that the grudle's still in the room,
but it's not in your you know.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Your room. Your grudle.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, I guess, so, I guess. It just feels funny
because he moved into like my house. Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Unless the bed is like one of those extra king beds,
that's really really big.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I understand because.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Sleep is very important if you're getting broken sleep because
you have a giant grudle licking you, moving around, making noise.
Griddles don't molt. But if there was another dog that
like molten hair was all through it, like for me,
that's pretty gross. I think you need to move the
groodle to the ground. It can still be close to you.
You can keep your eye on it, but you can
maintain your relationship.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Where does the grudle go when you guys are being
intimate with each other, just looks at them. He can
go awhere, you know wherever he Okay, look, grudle needs
to go on a dog bed.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, I don't think it's worth it, the divorce or
the split. I think moves to the bed.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I get why this is hard, but I reckon for
the sake of your relationship, it's time to pop. You know,
the pooch in the dog bed right next to the bed.
He's very close. He's not going to feel too like
he's being shafted. I think that that's your best solution.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, thanks for calling if you want to.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
If you want some advice like that and also feel defeated,
give us a call at the pickup.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
That was a great call.