May 26, 2026 • 11 mins
Dogs. Dogs at restaurants. Dogs at stores. But dogs in the bed???
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The most important question to ask someone before you marry
them or even date them. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm what sex are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Just to be sure check the junk. I think bigger
than that is a dog. Does your dog sleep in
bed with you? That's a bigger dividing line than whether
you're actually a dude or a chicken. Oh my god,
this has become very clear to me having been UHD
(00:34):
online dating for a total of like five months, and
I will never do it again. It's not for me.
But man, that's a big one. And uh, I don't
know if there's any bridge in that gap on a
whole bunch of this stuff. So I was looking at start.
It started this conversation with my son. Yesterday, we went,
I want to eat something somewhere different for Memorial Day,
(00:55):
somewhere fun. So we went to this restaurant that's along
the local river, restaurant on the river and got a
deck on the river and all that sort of stuff,
and it's cool. So we went nate and the food
was good and it was fun and Memorial Day issue.
There are people there that had dogs at the restaurant.
It's fine. It's kind of half outdoor, but still, you
brought your dog to the restaurant. Not everybody does that
(01:16):
act a restaurant we both stumbled out of many years ago. Yes,
this is true institution. Yeah, but I was looking up
the percentages. It's hard to nail these down for variety
of reasons. Part of it is you always end up
with a whole bunch of surveys that clearly Global vet
Link says eighty percent of American pet owners take their
pets on trips annually. Of course you're a yeah exactly,
(01:39):
you're a pet food or a vet thing or whatever.
But the percentages are growing. I think we all realize this.
Of restaurants that allow dogs in them, Yeah, from zero
to some several, from zero to if you're not old
enough to have lived this, from zero, it was inconceivable
that anybody would even ask the question, be okay, if
(02:05):
I brought my dog in here? What would be the
answer to every restaurant you go to, especially in like
living in California now pretty much always there's at least
ad dog there, uh, if not many, many, especially if
there's any sort of outdoor deck, and then whether you
want to do that or not. And then there's the
(02:26):
take the dog in your car. Oh, I skip apart.
So there are some dogs on the deck there at
the restaurant. And I have to be careful here because
my two sons have grown up with many, many, many
dogs around them, causing problems all the time. They're one
of them. In particular, my kids is quite anti having
(02:47):
a dog around, which is unfortunate, but he just can't
imagine why you'd bring a dog to the restaurant. Meant
you had to drive there with the dog. And he's
done many road trips with the dog in the car
and does not like it at all because of everything
that with it. And if you like it, fine, if
you like it, absolutely fine, But you got to find
other people that like it also, is the thing. And
(03:09):
if you drive, I've done road trips with a dog,
you gotta stop and let it out a lot. You
got hair all over everything. Sometimes they throw up if
there's winding roads, there's just a lot involved. And if
you like that sort of thing, again, fine, you gotta
have companions who also like it. Anyway, so you drove
with the dog in the car to the restaurant, and
(03:29):
then it's at the restaurant and we were sitting there
and then we saw several boats go by or they
had dogs on the boat, which should be a similar
sort of thing. And again, fine, if you like that
sort of thing. And then I was looking into the
what percentage of people sleep with their pets. This is
a little more solid information based on the polling looks
like legitimate polling. American Kennel Club says forty five percent
(03:51):
of dog owners let their dogs sleep in their bed.
That seems a little high to me, but even in
like regular surveys, it's a third. Sixty two percent of
people let small dogs sleep in their bed, forty of
medium sized dog owners let them sleep in their bed,
only a third of large dog owners let them sleep
in their bed, but sixty two percent of small dog owners.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's a hard no. Hey, glad we got together,
enjoyed the reindeer games. I'm going over there to sleep.
Good night you and your dog, good night.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Your cat's sleep in your bed. Michael, No, no again.
I am perfectly okay with the fact that you do this,
but it is a it is an absolute red line. Weird.
Can't be a couple thing for me. I'm not taking
road trips with the dog in a car and we're
(04:44):
not sleeping with the dog in the bed. I just
can't do it. I can't do it. Yeah, if I
tried to do it, because like you're really nice and
everything else about you, I absolutely think it's fantastic and
I think we could make a great couple. I would
spend my entire time fighting back bitterness or resentfulness by
having a dog waking me up in the bed or
(05:06):
being annoying in the car. And I realized, for a
lot of you listening right now, you love that. You
absolutely love it. I know you. I have been with you,
I have written in cars with you and then and
the old bed thing and everything else or airplanes got
to help the airplanes. You love it. But man, my
only point in this is not right or wrong. It's
just it is a hard lot dividing line.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because if you it reminds me of that do you
use the bathroom in front of each other topic that
we talked about a few weeks ago, or it was like,
oh my god, you what said both sides of the question. Yes,
you're a lunatics, right, both sides right?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, yeah, I had that very conversation with a woman,
and well, I'll look at it from the other side
with the dog thing to be more pro that side.
I realize you would be resentful about the dogs on
the floor and doesn't isn't it bed with you anymore?
You'd be you would hate that every night, you'd be
a little resentful that the dog can't get in bed.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Is now, really you love the dog and this person
has hurt the dog's feelings.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Or having to take your boring road trips without the
dog in the car because you love it so much.
So yeah, I don't know. That's just where they're way way, way,
way way more pets. There's all kinds of data around
this way way way more pets, and we spend way
more money on pets than anybody probably has in the
history of the world. But that is a huge dividing line.
And I know my son's a hardcore He'll never be
(06:32):
in a relationship with somebody who's going to want to
have a dog in the bed or in the car,
and that eliminates I told him, I said, I understand
because I feel the same way. But I'm telling you,
you're cutting out like half the chicks available out there
by taking that stance. It's a tough one. It is
a tough un like half. I mean seriously, not exaggerating.
(06:53):
It might be half. A college girls have a dog
that they expect to sleep in the bed and ride
in the car with them. Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I just it looks stressful to me, the dog
everywhere lifestyle. I mean a grocery store, I'm in a
hardware store, I'm at a restaurant. I don't want to
be dealing with a dog.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What about a small dog.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
But it's first dog, Paris Hilton dog.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Eh, that's better because the thing's unlikely to cause any problems.
But and again, this is like you said, it's not
I'm not judging anybody or saying you're wrong. I'm right.
It's just interesting that I just it looks stressful to
me trying to, you know, control your dog in a
restaurant or a bar or whatever. Judy and I we
used to go up to our mountain cabin pretty regularly,
(07:38):
and frankly, getting.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Backster ruined it.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not ruined it completely, but he upped the stress because
he would puke a lot, so he had to change
his feeding schedule, and then he was hungry, and then
you know, have to drive super carefully then get up
there and feed him, and then you know, we we'd
go off for long hikes. Well he would whimper and
cry and he wanted to come, and I was like,
all right, now we're walking in dog, we're not lost hiking,
(08:02):
and we got to watch him because there are snakes
and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And it just.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, And it's not like I lack the capacity to
love or anything. Please ask me about my children. I
just don't get how it's not more stressful for people
as most a pleasurable. But again to each thrown.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, yeah, but my only point really is I don't
understand why this hasn't become more of a conversation because
it is such a red line. It should be. I
think it should be like an all dating profile website
stuff like that. It should be like the very top line.
I take my dog everywhere. A lot of people say
you have to love dogs. Okay, I love dogs, Oh yeah,
(08:45):
I absolutely love dogs. Don't want them ride in the
car with me, and I don't want them in the bed.
So then we might know, just kind of have at
the top line everybody one hundred percent no on dogs
sleeping in bed or one hundred percent always. I will
be miserable the rest of my life if my dog
doesn't get to sleep in bed. See don't ways to
I'm with each other. I guess m he's down that road.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
No dog in the car, But like, for how about
just your your running errands or something.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't want a dog in a car. I don't understand.
Why would wand up other people?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Can you hate dogs and you hate people who permit it?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What's the upside of bringing the dog in the car?
The dogs to come and.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Stick his nose out and smell stuff and oh his
ears flap and it's just fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's fine again if you like it. I just don't
want to do it. And so the problem being is everybody,
whether you're a pro or anti, you've cut the dating
pool like in half, which is already hard. Now you
cut it in half.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You rather end up with a woman who lets her
dog sleep in the bed or a dude. It's about
a coin flip for me.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
God, I honestly feel like I could. I could. I could.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Is he kind of pretty and effeminate looking?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I don't know, right are Can we just not have
sex and just be happy together?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Just be buddies.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, but I'm ever east to the dog things.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Stay on your half of the bed, all right, pal,
All right, then at least you're not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You gotta wear sweats warming nudity. Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
What about a girl that has a small dog and
a baby stroller dressed up, pushes it around everywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And it's so disappointing because you meet somebody and they're
so nice and everything, every single other aspect of it.
But I just I'd have to be hypnotized to not
be resentful at some point that I'm trying to sleep
with the dog in the bed.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, and there are a lot of married couples I
don't know what percentage, but that sleep separately sometimes as
they age. Maybe it's snoring or sleep problems or stuff
like that. A lot of tossing and turning. Could you
see that? Maybe I prefer not to.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, I could do that. Maybe that's the answer on
that one.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Like I said, yeah, enjoy the rein to your games.
You ever a little squeeze and say it's a sleepy time,
you and the dog.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'm heading to Joe's slumber palace right down the hall.
If you need something yell.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You don't need to drive with the dog, Just have
one of your kids stick their head out the window
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I like it. If you need something yell heading somebody
broke in, I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Slumbering over here.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Have the dog look into it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Well, I guess that's it.
The most important question to ask someone before you marry
them or even date them. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm what sex are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Just to be sure check the junk. I think bigger
than that is a dog. Does your dog sleep in
bed with you? That's a bigger dividing line than whether
you're actually a dude or a chicken. Oh my god,
this has become very clear to me having been UHD
(00:34):
online dating for a total of like five months, and
I will never do it again. It's not for me.
But man, that's a big one. And uh, I don't
know if there's any bridge in that gap on a
whole bunch of this stuff. So I was looking at start.
It started this conversation with my son. Yesterday, we went,
I want to eat something somewhere different for Memorial Day,
(00:55):
somewhere fun. So we went to this restaurant that's along
the local river, restaurant on the river and got a
deck on the river and all that sort of stuff,
and it's cool. So we went nate and the food
was good and it was fun and Memorial Day issue.
There are people there that had dogs at the restaurant.
It's fine. It's kind of half outdoor, but still, you
brought your dog to the restaurant. Not everybody does that
(01:16):
act a restaurant we both stumbled out of many years ago. Yes,
this is true institution. Yeah, but I was looking up
the percentages. It's hard to nail these down for variety
of reasons. Part of it is you always end up
with a whole bunch of surveys that clearly Global vet
Link says eighty percent of American pet owners take their
pets on trips annually. Of course you're a yeah exactly,
(01:39):
you're a pet food or a vet thing or whatever.
But the percentages are growing. I think we all realize this.
Of restaurants that allow dogs in them, Yeah, from zero
to some several, from zero to if you're not old
enough to have lived this, from zero, it was inconceivable
that anybody would even ask the question, be okay, if
(02:05):
I brought my dog in here? What would be the
answer to every restaurant you go to, especially in like
living in California now pretty much always there's at least
ad dog there, uh, if not many, many, especially if
there's any sort of outdoor deck, and then whether you
want to do that or not. And then there's the
(02:26):
take the dog in your car. Oh, I skip apart.
So there are some dogs on the deck there at
the restaurant. And I have to be careful here because
my two sons have grown up with many, many, many
dogs around them, causing problems all the time. They're one
of them. In particular, my kids is quite anti having
(02:47):
a dog around, which is unfortunate, but he just can't
imagine why you'd bring a dog to the restaurant. Meant
you had to drive there with the dog. And he's
done many road trips with the dog in the car
and does not like it at all because of everything
that with it. And if you like it, fine, if
you like it, absolutely fine, But you got to find
other people that like it also, is the thing. And
(03:09):
if you drive, I've done road trips with a dog,
you gotta stop and let it out a lot. You
got hair all over everything. Sometimes they throw up if
there's winding roads, there's just a lot involved. And if
you like that sort of thing, again, fine, you gotta
have companions who also like it. Anyway, so you drove
with the dog in the car to the restaurant, and
(03:29):
then it's at the restaurant and we were sitting there
and then we saw several boats go by or they
had dogs on the boat, which should be a similar
sort of thing. And again, fine, if you like that
sort of thing. And then I was looking into the
what percentage of people sleep with their pets. This is
a little more solid information based on the polling looks
like legitimate polling. American Kennel Club says forty five percent
(03:51):
of dog owners let their dogs sleep in their bed.
That seems a little high to me, but even in
like regular surveys, it's a third. Sixty two percent of
people let small dogs sleep in their bed, forty of
medium sized dog owners let them sleep in their bed,
only a third of large dog owners let them sleep
in their bed, but sixty two percent of small dog owners.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's a hard no. Hey, glad we got together,
enjoyed the reindeer games. I'm going over there to sleep.
Good night you and your dog, good night.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Your cat's sleep in your bed. Michael, No, no again.
I am perfectly okay with the fact that you do this,
but it is a it is an absolute red line. Weird.
Can't be a couple thing for me. I'm not taking
road trips with the dog in a car and we're
(04:44):
not sleeping with the dog in the bed. I just
can't do it. I can't do it. Yeah, if I
tried to do it, because like you're really nice and
everything else about you, I absolutely think it's fantastic and
I think we could make a great couple. I would
spend my entire time fighting back bitterness or resentfulness by
having a dog waking me up in the bed or
(05:06):
being annoying in the car. And I realized, for a
lot of you listening right now, you love that. You
absolutely love it. I know you. I have been with you,
I have written in cars with you and then and
the old bed thing and everything else or airplanes got
to help the airplanes. You love it. But man, my
only point in this is not right or wrong. It's
just it is a hard lot dividing line.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Because if you it reminds me of that do you
use the bathroom in front of each other topic that
we talked about a few weeks ago, or it was like,
oh my god, you what said both sides of the question. Yes,
you're a lunatics, right, both sides right?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, yeah, I had that very conversation with a woman,
and well, I'll look at it from the other side
with the dog thing to be more pro that side.
I realize you would be resentful about the dogs on
the floor and doesn't isn't it bed with you anymore?
You'd be you would hate that every night, you'd be
a little resentful that the dog can't get in bed.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Is now, really you love the dog and this person
has hurt the dog's feelings.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Or having to take your boring road trips without the
dog in the car because you love it so much.
So yeah, I don't know. That's just where they're way way, way,
way way more pets. There's all kinds of data around
this way way way more pets, and we spend way
more money on pets than anybody probably has in the
history of the world. But that is a huge dividing line.
And I know my son's a hardcore He'll never be
(06:32):
in a relationship with somebody who's going to want to
have a dog in the bed or in the car,
and that eliminates I told him, I said, I understand
because I feel the same way. But I'm telling you,
you're cutting out like half the chicks available out there
by taking that stance. It's a tough one. It is
a tough un like half. I mean seriously, not exaggerating.
(06:53):
It might be half. A college girls have a dog
that they expect to sleep in the bed and ride
in the car with them. Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I just it looks stressful to me, the dog
everywhere lifestyle. I mean a grocery store, I'm in a
hardware store, I'm at a restaurant. I don't want to
be dealing with a dog.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
What about a small dog.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
But it's first dog, Paris Hilton dog.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Eh, that's better because the thing's unlikely to cause any problems.
But and again, this is like you said, it's not
I'm not judging anybody or saying you're wrong. I'm right.
It's just interesting that I just it looks stressful to
me trying to, you know, control your dog in a
restaurant or a bar or whatever. Judy and I we
used to go up to our mountain cabin pretty regularly,
(07:38):
and frankly, getting.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Backster ruined it.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Not ruined it completely, but he upped the stress because
he would puke a lot, so he had to change
his feeding schedule, and then he was hungry, and then
you know, have to drive super carefully then get up
there and feed him, and then you know, we we'd
go off for long hikes. Well he would whimper and
cry and he wanted to come, and I was like,
all right, now we're walking in dog, we're not lost hiking,
(08:02):
and we got to watch him because there are snakes
and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And it just.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, And it's not like I lack the capacity to
love or anything. Please ask me about my children. I
just don't get how it's not more stressful for people
as most a pleasurable. But again to each thrown.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, yeah, but my only point really is I don't
understand why this hasn't become more of a conversation because
it is such a red line. It should be. I
think it should be like an all dating profile website
stuff like that. It should be like the very top line.
I take my dog everywhere. A lot of people say
you have to love dogs. Okay, I love dogs, Oh yeah,
(08:45):
I absolutely love dogs. Don't want them ride in the
car with me, and I don't want them in the bed.
So then we might know, just kind of have at
the top line everybody one hundred percent no on dogs
sleeping in bed or one hundred percent always. I will
be miserable the rest of my life if my dog
doesn't get to sleep in bed. See don't ways to
I'm with each other. I guess m he's down that road.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
No dog in the car, But like, for how about
just your your running errands or something.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't want a dog in a car. I don't understand.
Why would wand up other people?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Can you hate dogs and you hate people who permit it?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What's the upside of bringing the dog in the car?
The dogs to come and.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Stick his nose out and smell stuff and oh his
ears flap and it's just fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's fine again if you like it. I just don't
want to do it. And so the problem being is everybody,
whether you're a pro or anti, you've cut the dating
pool like in half, which is already hard. Now you
cut it in half.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
You rather end up with a woman who lets her
dog sleep in the bed or a dude. It's about
a coin flip for me.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
God, I honestly feel like I could. I could. I could.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Is he kind of pretty and effeminate looking?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I don't know, right are Can we just not have
sex and just be happy together?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Just be buddies.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, but I'm ever east to the dog things.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Stay on your half of the bed, all right, pal,
All right, then at least you're not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You gotta wear sweats warming nudity. Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
What about a girl that has a small dog and
a baby stroller dressed up, pushes it around everywhere.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And it's so disappointing because you meet somebody and they're
so nice and everything, every single other aspect of it.
But I just I'd have to be hypnotized to not
be resentful at some point that I'm trying to sleep
with the dog in the bed.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, and there are a lot of married couples I
don't know what percentage, but that sleep separately sometimes as
they age. Maybe it's snoring or sleep problems or stuff
like that. A lot of tossing and turning. Could you
see that? Maybe I prefer not to.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yeah, I could do that. Maybe that's the answer on
that one.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Like I said, yeah, enjoy the rein to your games.
You ever a little squeeze and say it's a sleepy time,
you and the dog.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'm heading to Joe's slumber palace right down the hall.
If you need something yell.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You don't need to drive with the dog, Just have
one of your kids stick their head out the window
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I like it. If you need something yell heading somebody
broke in, I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Slumbering over here.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Have the dog look into it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Well, I guess that's it.
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