December 27, 2022 • 17 mins
Sleeping must be taken seriously, it is the moment when you recharge energy. Living with pets is also a serious task. Sleeping with pets can strengthen links of a solid relationship or can create chaos within you and your furry friend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Life is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We all love our pets. There is no discussion on
that com We love to share our whole life with them.
We share our house, our budget, our food, and even
our bet with our furry friends. But is this sharing
behavior necessary and prudent? Is it fine to establish some
(00:42):
boundaries with our dogs and cats? In particular? Is it
healthy for us and for our pets to sleep with them?
I am Villa Brico veterinarian and animal experts. Welcome to
entry animalists by pet Live Radio. I'll be right back
after these messages to talk about how convenient is to
(01:05):
sleep with our beets.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
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with an ad in Petlife Radio podcasts and radio shows.
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large and reaches more pet parents and pet lovers than
pet Life Radio with over seven million monthly listeners. Pet
Life Radio podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms,
(01:31):
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Speaker 4 (01:52):
Let's talk pets on petlifradio dot com.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Welcome back to ter Animals with the germ Rico by
pet Life. Breaking. Sociologists have recognized that in many social
cultural contexts, sleep is not an individual but rather a
joint practice. It is often shared by intimate partners, siblings,
(02:27):
parents and their children, as well as by individuals and
couples and their pets. Let me tell this clearly, if
you sleep with your dog, you are not a weirdo.
Please relax. According to the American Kennel Club, the forty
five percent of American dog owners sleep actually with them
(02:52):
in the same bed. In fact, around half of dog
and cat owners report sharing a bed or bedroom with
their pets. This is not a novelty for humanity. With certainty,
it can be said that prehistoric humans slept with their
(03:14):
dogs during the coldest nights. There are records from ancient
Greece that confirmed this particular trend of sharing sheets with pets.
Within the numerous roles played by dots in our society,
one of it of it is to warm people. It
is well known, for example, that the Shitsu dog breed
(03:37):
was specially developed to warm Chinese aristocrats' feet during the
coldest nights. Similarly, King Henry the Eighth allowed his terrier
Korra to sleep in the royal bed, just following the
custom of his ancestors. However, interspecies called sleeping has been
(04:01):
trivialized in the literature relative to interpersonal or human sleeping,
receiving little attention from an interdisciplinary psychological perspective. Sleeping with
pets differs according to several factors, such as the type
of pet. Cats and dogs are the most frequent bed visitors,
(04:25):
the size of the pet. Most dogs allowed in the
bed are smaller breeds, the number of children in the
household higher for those with no children, and guardian characteristics
such as gender more common in females, and even ethnicity
higher in Anglo Saxon than African American communities. Sleep quality
(04:49):
is one of various consequences of having pets in bedrooms.
As you may know, I have two dogs, Kicka and Wallace,
a terrier and a German shepherd. The first one loves
to sleep by my wife's side of the bed, and
my wife adorres it as well, and the German shepherd
(05:13):
prefers to hurt my kids in their bedroom. Personally, since
I have a light sleep, I find a little annoying
sleeping with my dogs in the same bed and even
in the same bedroom, because they move, maybe they jump
to the floor during the night, and they can make
(05:33):
any tiny noise that awakes me. In the past, I
had a bowl mastiff that snorted as a locomotive, and
believe me, it was impossible to sleep in the same
room with her. So in my case, in terms of
sleep quality, I thoroughly recommend to keep pets out of
(05:59):
your bedroom well, but since I don't have the absolute trath,
I made the research and I found out that, according
to Australian scientists, those people who cast slept with pets
take longer to fall asleep, are more likely to wake
(06:20):
up tired, and although they are not more likely to
wake up due to a disturbance, those who did had
a greater chance of being disturbed by dog barking or
animals making noises. However, a study from the Central Queensland
University that evaluided the consequences of sleeping with pets concluded
(06:44):
that there were no significant differences found in total self
reported sleep lengths or feelings of tiredness during the day.
The continued practice of sleeping with pets suggests that there
are maybe some benefits, such as social support and social
(07:05):
interaction and increased feelings of personal security. In many westernized
and industrialized nations, the majority of families encourage infants to
sleep alone from any early age. Allowing animals in the
private space of the bed or bedroom therefore indicates the
(07:30):
status and value that is placed on many companion animals.
Some authors have alluded to the untested assumption that letting
a dog sleep on the bed is indicative of a
positive pet attachment. But let me ask you the following.
(07:51):
Have you ever tried to sleep with a cat? I
also had that experience in the past, and while trying
to fall asleep, I remembered that cats have nocturnal activity.
I know plenty of people that loves to sleep with
their cats, but I also know a lot of cat
(08:15):
owners complaining about high activity and demands of their cats.
Down we'll continue with our really cool topic right after
these messages from our response.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
For those fortunate to have experienced the deep bond and
unconditional love of a companion animal, The death that follows
can be one of the most difficult and misunderstood losses
to go through. Many times, this devastating loss goes unrecognized
and trivialized by family and friends, leaving grieving pet parents
(08:54):
struggling to find healthy ways to cope with the loss.
In and I Love You Still, A thought full Guide
and Remembrance Journal for Healing the Loss of a Pet,
doctor Julianne Corbin calls attention to the difficulties unique to
the loss of a beloved pet and provides an interactive
and compassionate guide to help you process your loss and
(09:15):
work towards coming to a place of peace and healing.
For those interested in journal therapy and looking for a
professionally written and compassionate resource to help understand and reconcile
the grief associated with the loss of your pet, this
book is for you. And I Love You Still, A
thoughtful Guide and Remembrance Journal by Julianne Corbin is now
(09:38):
available for purchase on Amazon and other major book retailers.
Let's Talk Past, Let's Done Pets of Radio Headline.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Radio, Petlfradio dot Com.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We are Back. Having pets can also represent a significant
cause of disturbance for those who allow pets in the
bed or bedroom. For instance, the Mayor Sleep Clinic in
the US surveyed three hundred patients with an existing sleep
disorder and found that fifty three percent of pet guardians
(10:31):
who allowed their pets to sleep in their beds were
disturbed every night, but the animal in some way. I
am not the only one, my friends. But in the
same study, it was found that the twenty percent of
the owners described their pets as disruptive, whereas forty one
(10:53):
percent perceived their pets as unobtrusive or even beneficial to sleep.
There are some mismatches between human, dog and cat court temperatures,
as well as differences in sleep wake cycles, as pets
do not spend eight hours in a sleep state. For example,
(11:16):
some scientists examined the sleep wake cycles of dogs in
various urban backyards and found that dogs had an average
of twenty three sleep wake episodes or three sleep wake
cycles per hour, with active sleep followed immediately by spontaneous arousal.
(11:39):
They found that dogs are also responsive to auditory stimuli,
regardless of whether the sleep state was quiet or active.
Their responses to such stimuli often led to dogs being
a nuisance to people in the neighborhood and potentially diswrapped
(12:00):
in the sleep of guardians and non guardians alike. Previous
studies on human animal relationships demonstrated that humans do not
always dominate animals. Instead, humans are willing to subordinate their
own sleep needs to those of their pets to make
(12:21):
sure that the leader feel loved and protected. Can you
imagine that sleeping with pets can also affect their behavior.
It is well documented that dogs who are allowed to
sleep in their guardian's beds or bedrooms at night may
experience such behavioral problems as an increase in competitive aggression
(12:47):
and separation related problems. In addition, it is likely that
dogs sleeping with or close to the guardian will develop
an unbalanced attachment for that per person anthus react adversely
to separation. In my opinion, since we must maintain our
(13:08):
hurarce within the pack, sleeping with a dog or a
cat sends a cross message. In the society of wolves,
the common ancestor of dogs, the one that sleeps in
the highest point, is the leader, the alpha, the big chief.
So don't ask why is your dog getting jamming? And
(13:29):
since you are allowing to sleep in your bed. You
know the answer. Pets sleeping in our beds can also
be a source of conflict for couples, sometimes leading to
problems with intimacy, particularly if the pet is unwelcome to
one partner. If you are active sexually, I'd rather recommend
(13:52):
to keep your pet out of your bedroom because no
one wants to be hurt or frustrated within the very
as consequences of having pets in bedrooms, the health hazards
must be taken also into account. There are various health
hazards associated with pet ownership that are accentuated by allowing
(14:14):
pets into the bedroom and bed. These include immunological responses
resulting in allergic disease asthma and or hypersensitivity, numonieties, bites
and scratches from pets causing tissue damage and inducing infections,
and infectious diseases associated with pets as well. The most
(14:36):
susceptible include small children, pregnant women, and immuno deficient patients. However,
overall health risks are relatively low, particularly if the animals
are kept clean and rooting veterinary care is maintained. Nevertheless,
(14:57):
it is better to have a pet outside the bedroom
when we are struggling with a disease or when we
have a recovering patient at hand. But during my research
in a bunch of scientific literature, I find out that
according to Canadian scientists, pet dogs may play important roles
(15:20):
in helping people with chronic pain achieve sleep unset and maintenance.
They concluded that removing the dog to improved sleep could
be counterproductive and led two additional sleep related issues. As
you may see, there are pros and counts related with
(15:42):
sleeping with pets. The final decision must be evaluidd individually
because everybody's needs are different and the relationship that we
established with our furry friends are complex and sometimes dynamic. Finally,
me and my personal opinion, since we live in a
(16:03):
changing world, it is better to avoid leading our pets
to sleep with us in our bed or even in
our bedroom. Maybe you are a single person that lives
happily with your pet now, but tomorrow you can get
married or decide to join your life with another allergic person.
Imagine how difficult will it be to ask your dog
(16:25):
or your cat to keep us from your leader. This
could be even a traumatic experience for your pet. Changing
routines is not an easy task with a pet, believe me.
But if from the beginning you decide to sleep without
your fairy one, you will save time and pain for sure.
(16:45):
Of course, it is always a great idea to snuggle
with your pets during a cold afternoon or when you
need to recharge energy, but at the time of sleeping pleasantly,
it is not always better to do it with our
prairie ones. Well, I am out of time, so I
(17:05):
would like to thank Mark Winter, producer of Bedlife Radio,
for making this show possible. Don't forget to buy my
book inter Animalist in Amazon. Also follow me on Twitter
at g r I c O v e T and
on Instagram at v r ic o H. I also
(17:28):
invite you to read my blog in t Animalist dot shot.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Until next time, let's talk that every week on demand
only on pet Live Radio dot com.
Life is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
We all love our pets. There is no discussion on
that com We love to share our whole life with them.
We share our house, our budget, our food, and even
our bet with our furry friends. But is this sharing
behavior necessary and prudent? Is it fine to establish some
(00:42):
boundaries with our dogs and cats? In particular? Is it
healthy for us and for our pets to sleep with them?
I am Villa Brico veterinarian and animal experts. Welcome to
entry animalists by pet Live Radio. I'll be right back
after these messages to talk about how convenient is to
(01:05):
sleep with our beets.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Take a bite out of your competition. Advertise your business
with an ad in Petlife Radio podcasts and radio shows.
There is no other pet related media that is as
large and reaches more pet parents and pet lovers than
pet Life Radio with over seven million monthly listeners. Pet
Life Radio podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms,
(01:31):
and our live radio stream goes out to over two
hundred and fifty million subscribers on iHeartRadio, Odyssey, tune In, Stitcher,
and other streaming apps. For more information on how you
can advertise on the number one pet podcast and radio network.
Visit petlifradio dot com. Slash advertised today.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Let's talk pets on petlifradio dot com.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Welcome back to ter Animals with the germ Rico by
pet Life. Breaking. Sociologists have recognized that in many social
cultural contexts, sleep is not an individual but rather a
joint practice. It is often shared by intimate partners, siblings,
(02:27):
parents and their children, as well as by individuals and
couples and their pets. Let me tell this clearly, if
you sleep with your dog, you are not a weirdo.
Please relax. According to the American Kennel Club, the forty
five percent of American dog owners sleep actually with them
(02:52):
in the same bed. In fact, around half of dog
and cat owners report sharing a bed or bedroom with
their pets. This is not a novelty for humanity. With certainty,
it can be said that prehistoric humans slept with their
(03:14):
dogs during the coldest nights. There are records from ancient
Greece that confirmed this particular trend of sharing sheets with pets.
Within the numerous roles played by dots in our society,
one of it of it is to warm people. It
is well known, for example, that the Shitsu dog breed
(03:37):
was specially developed to warm Chinese aristocrats' feet during the
coldest nights. Similarly, King Henry the Eighth allowed his terrier
Korra to sleep in the royal bed, just following the
custom of his ancestors. However, interspecies called sleeping has been
(04:01):
trivialized in the literature relative to interpersonal or human sleeping,
receiving little attention from an interdisciplinary psychological perspective. Sleeping with
pets differs according to several factors, such as the type
of pet. Cats and dogs are the most frequent bed visitors,
(04:25):
the size of the pet. Most dogs allowed in the
bed are smaller breeds, the number of children in the
household higher for those with no children, and guardian characteristics
such as gender more common in females, and even ethnicity
higher in Anglo Saxon than African American communities. Sleep quality
(04:49):
is one of various consequences of having pets in bedrooms.
As you may know, I have two dogs, Kicka and Wallace,
a terrier and a German shepherd. The first one loves
to sleep by my wife's side of the bed, and
my wife adorres it as well, and the German shepherd
(05:13):
prefers to hurt my kids in their bedroom. Personally, since
I have a light sleep, I find a little annoying
sleeping with my dogs in the same bed and even
in the same bedroom, because they move, maybe they jump
to the floor during the night, and they can make
(05:33):
any tiny noise that awakes me. In the past, I
had a bowl mastiff that snorted as a locomotive, and
believe me, it was impossible to sleep in the same
room with her. So in my case, in terms of
sleep quality, I thoroughly recommend to keep pets out of
(05:59):
your bedroom well, but since I don't have the absolute trath,
I made the research and I found out that, according
to Australian scientists, those people who cast slept with pets
take longer to fall asleep, are more likely to wake
(06:20):
up tired, and although they are not more likely to
wake up due to a disturbance, those who did had
a greater chance of being disturbed by dog barking or
animals making noises. However, a study from the Central Queensland
University that evaluided the consequences of sleeping with pets concluded
(06:44):
that there were no significant differences found in total self
reported sleep lengths or feelings of tiredness during the day.
The continued practice of sleeping with pets suggests that there
are maybe some benefits, such as social support and social
(07:05):
interaction and increased feelings of personal security. In many westernized
and industrialized nations, the majority of families encourage infants to
sleep alone from any early age. Allowing animals in the
private space of the bed or bedroom therefore indicates the
(07:30):
status and value that is placed on many companion animals.
Some authors have alluded to the untested assumption that letting
a dog sleep on the bed is indicative of a
positive pet attachment. But let me ask you the following.
(07:51):
Have you ever tried to sleep with a cat? I
also had that experience in the past, and while trying
to fall asleep, I remembered that cats have nocturnal activity.
I know plenty of people that loves to sleep with
their cats, but I also know a lot of cat
(08:15):
owners complaining about high activity and demands of their cats.
Down we'll continue with our really cool topic right after
these messages from our response.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
For those fortunate to have experienced the deep bond and
unconditional love of a companion animal, The death that follows
can be one of the most difficult and misunderstood losses
to go through. Many times, this devastating loss goes unrecognized
and trivialized by family and friends, leaving grieving pet parents
(08:54):
struggling to find healthy ways to cope with the loss.
In and I Love You Still, A thought full Guide
and Remembrance Journal for Healing the Loss of a Pet,
doctor Julianne Corbin calls attention to the difficulties unique to
the loss of a beloved pet and provides an interactive
and compassionate guide to help you process your loss and
(09:15):
work towards coming to a place of peace and healing.
For those interested in journal therapy and looking for a
professionally written and compassionate resource to help understand and reconcile
the grief associated with the loss of your pet, this
book is for you. And I Love You Still, A
thoughtful Guide and Remembrance Journal by Julianne Corbin is now
(09:38):
available for purchase on Amazon and other major book retailers.
Let's Talk Past, Let's Done Pets of Radio Headline.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Radio, Petlfradio dot Com.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We are Back. Having pets can also represent a significant
cause of disturbance for those who allow pets in the
bed or bedroom. For instance, the Mayor Sleep Clinic in
the US surveyed three hundred patients with an existing sleep
disorder and found that fifty three percent of pet guardians
(10:31):
who allowed their pets to sleep in their beds were
disturbed every night, but the animal in some way. I
am not the only one, my friends. But in the
same study, it was found that the twenty percent of
the owners described their pets as disruptive, whereas forty one
(10:53):
percent perceived their pets as unobtrusive or even beneficial to sleep.
There are some mismatches between human, dog and cat court temperatures,
as well as differences in sleep wake cycles, as pets
do not spend eight hours in a sleep state. For example,
(11:16):
some scientists examined the sleep wake cycles of dogs in
various urban backyards and found that dogs had an average
of twenty three sleep wake episodes or three sleep wake
cycles per hour, with active sleep followed immediately by spontaneous arousal.
(11:39):
They found that dogs are also responsive to auditory stimuli,
regardless of whether the sleep state was quiet or active.
Their responses to such stimuli often led to dogs being
a nuisance to people in the neighborhood and potentially diswrapped
(12:00):
in the sleep of guardians and non guardians alike. Previous
studies on human animal relationships demonstrated that humans do not
always dominate animals. Instead, humans are willing to subordinate their
own sleep needs to those of their pets to make
(12:21):
sure that the leader feel loved and protected. Can you
imagine that sleeping with pets can also affect their behavior.
It is well documented that dogs who are allowed to
sleep in their guardian's beds or bedrooms at night may
experience such behavioral problems as an increase in competitive aggression
(12:47):
and separation related problems. In addition, it is likely that
dogs sleeping with or close to the guardian will develop
an unbalanced attachment for that per person anthus react adversely
to separation. In my opinion, since we must maintain our
(13:08):
hurarce within the pack, sleeping with a dog or a
cat sends a cross message. In the society of wolves,
the common ancestor of dogs, the one that sleeps in
the highest point, is the leader, the alpha, the big chief.
So don't ask why is your dog getting jamming? And
(13:29):
since you are allowing to sleep in your bed. You
know the answer. Pets sleeping in our beds can also
be a source of conflict for couples, sometimes leading to
problems with intimacy, particularly if the pet is unwelcome to
one partner. If you are active sexually, I'd rather recommend
(13:52):
to keep your pet out of your bedroom because no
one wants to be hurt or frustrated within the very
as consequences of having pets in bedrooms, the health hazards
must be taken also into account. There are various health
hazards associated with pet ownership that are accentuated by allowing
(14:14):
pets into the bedroom and bed. These include immunological responses
resulting in allergic disease asthma and or hypersensitivity, numonieties, bites
and scratches from pets causing tissue damage and inducing infections,
and infectious diseases associated with pets as well. The most
(14:36):
susceptible include small children, pregnant women, and immuno deficient patients. However,
overall health risks are relatively low, particularly if the animals
are kept clean and rooting veterinary care is maintained. Nevertheless,
(14:57):
it is better to have a pet outside the bedroom
when we are struggling with a disease or when we
have a recovering patient at hand. But during my research
in a bunch of scientific literature, I find out that
according to Canadian scientists, pet dogs may play important roles
(15:20):
in helping people with chronic pain achieve sleep unset and maintenance.
They concluded that removing the dog to improved sleep could
be counterproductive and led two additional sleep related issues. As
you may see, there are pros and counts related with
(15:42):
sleeping with pets. The final decision must be evaluidd individually
because everybody's needs are different and the relationship that we
established with our furry friends are complex and sometimes dynamic. Finally,
me and my personal opinion, since we live in a
(16:03):
changing world, it is better to avoid leading our pets
to sleep with us in our bed or even in
our bedroom. Maybe you are a single person that lives
happily with your pet now, but tomorrow you can get
married or decide to join your life with another allergic person.
Imagine how difficult will it be to ask your dog
(16:25):
or your cat to keep us from your leader. This
could be even a traumatic experience for your pet. Changing
routines is not an easy task with a pet, believe me.
But if from the beginning you decide to sleep without
your fairy one, you will save time and pain for sure.
(16:45):
Of course, it is always a great idea to snuggle
with your pets during a cold afternoon or when you
need to recharge energy, but at the time of sleeping pleasantly,
it is not always better to do it with our
prairie ones. Well, I am out of time, so I
(17:05):
would like to thank Mark Winter, producer of Bedlife Radio,
for making this show possible. Don't forget to buy my
book inter Animalist in Amazon. Also follow me on Twitter
at g r I c O v e T and
on Instagram at v r ic o H. I also
(17:28):
invite you to read my blog in t Animalist dot shot.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Until next time, let's talk that every week on demand
only on pet Live Radio dot com.
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