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A Blonde A Brunette and a Mic
Season 2 Episode 90 Dogs in Bed: Sleeping with a Tail-Twitcher
Picture this: it's late at night, and you find yourself sharing your bed with a mischievous chihuahua named Harlow, who sneaks under the covers, or with Teddy, a designer puppy who promises not to shed a single hair. Ever wonder why your partner might not be as enthusiastic about waking up to a furry face as you are? In our latest episode, the "Dog in the Bed Dilemma" is tackled with humor and camaraderie, as we recount personal stories and explore why some creatures—human or canine—might prefer to keep the bed to themselves. From drooling to shedding, and weighing the advantages of warmth against the horrors of a messy morning bed, we leave no pillow unturned while discussing the peculiar joys and challenges of sharing our sleep sanctuaries with our beloved pets.
Imagine a world where dogs are forbidden from furniture and where cats rule the roost with rebellious flair. Navigating the amusing contrast between dog and cat ownership, we ponder the woes of pet allergies, yet celebrate the unmatched companionship pets provide. Could pet hair management be an art form? We think so, and we’ll guide you through the whimsical dance of keeping a clean home while living with a furball or two. As we wrap up with the "Dog in Bed Acceptance Debate," we invite you to join the conversation, challenging the norms of pet-parenthood and encouraging couples to share their thoughts with us on social media. Whether you're a pet-bed enthusiast or a firm no-fur-in-bed advocate, there's a laugh and a story waiting for you.
Hey everybody. This is Michelle and this is Julie. Welcome to a blonde, a brunette and a mic podcast. What is our podcast all about, you ask?
Speaker 2:Well, we're 250 something.
Speaker 1:Women with life experience and oh bloody to say which is exactly what we're gonna do right now. Na, na, na na na na, I don't know. It sounds like some country kind of a thing. I think that's George Thorogood.
Speaker 2:I don't know the dogs in the bed. Okay, so Michelle and I were talking about Hi everybody. Yeah, stools, and Michelle you already knew that, though no, jewels. It sounded like you said stool. It's michelle stool and stools and yeah, yeah, anyway, okay, we're being silly yeah we, um, we were just talking. I saw something today or heard something today about this uh conversation people were having about dog having dogs in your and this topic has come up before Not bugs.
Speaker 2:Not bugs in the bed, dogs in the bed, dogs in the bed, but that goes along with, potentially, bugs in the bed too, I guess, right, I guess. Oh well, there you go, yeah, so when I was listening to whatever it was they were talking about, you know, it seems like men have more problem with dogs in the bed. Oh really, that's what I've kind of noticed. I mean I've noticed it from conversations that I've had with different people about dogs in the bed Because you know Harlow the Wawa is.
Speaker 2:She burrows in under the covers and you don't see her.
Speaker 1:She's literally in the bed. Yeah, literally. She's not just on the bed, she is in the bed, she's not just on the bed.
Speaker 2:She is in the bed, she gets cold, she shivers, just as a general rule. So what are your thoughts on this topic?
Speaker 1:I do know it is a thing for people not to want the dog in or on the bed. I have never had a problem with it. I'm a female and I think I'm pretty lucky because my guy doesn't mind dog on the bed. I know he has Teddy. Yeah, he's got Teddy Tate and Teddy sleeps on his bed, and when I had Lotto, lotto always slept on my bed, so I got pretty lucky that way. But it's definitely a thing, okay.
Speaker 2:So here's the deal, though, with teddy he's a, he's a, he's a parlor puppy, right, a designer puppy yeah, some kind of non-shedding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there's shedding he doesn't smell.
Speaker 2:He's got like he gets haircuts yeah and he's what?
Speaker 1:10 pounds or something I don't know how much he weighs. Yeah, he's a little guy.
Speaker 2:He's uh not teeny tiny okay, so let me ask you this you, you were just recently visiting there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So what if he had like a um a lab, or a a German shepherd?
Speaker 1:I just don't think he would.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm just saying hypothetically for God's sake, pretend he's someone else. I know right that you're dating and they have a lab or a chocolate.
Speaker 1:I don't think that. I don't think. How would you feel about it? I would be okay with it.
Speaker 2:Big ass dog that's like drooling and stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know. I think it depends on You're an animal lover. If you ended up, let's go hypothetical again, because I know you would say, well, I would never have one that big. But let's do hypothetical. If you had a giant animal, would you mind if it came in your room and jumped on your bed? I don't believe you for a second, okay.
Speaker 2:But wait a minute here. It would depend on if they drool and it would depend on if they are like dirty boy dogs, because dirty boy dogs are just dirty, like what kind of dirty, you know, like they get they roll around in the, you know, and they have long hair and their hair like sheds, a lot, like, you know, cast sheds. I know you're surprised, but here's the deal. It's like they have to be little First of all, they have to be little.
Speaker 1:But you don't know. You've never had a big dog in your bed, so you don't know. You've never had a big dog in your bed, so you don't know what you don't know, unless they have like really short hair and they're good with like cuddling, I suppose. Okay, but listening to you right now, then you have to understand the stipulations that others have with wanting a dog in the bed.
Speaker 2:I know I'm. That's why I'm asking you, girl. I want to know what your thoughts are on this. Is it a deal breaker for you If someone has a big slobbery dog?
Speaker 1:I wouldn't know. It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me, not that? And how would you feel about a big slobbery?
Speaker 2:dog in your bed.
Speaker 1:I think that, depending on the dynamics, like you know, it's not like when we're in the bed. You know, getting it on the dog's going to be like on the bed.
Speaker 2:Like watching you, yeah, like giving you pointers. I'm sorry giving Rick pointers.
Speaker 1:If when we're stuggling Did she have any shrimp that day, I don't know, but when we're like in bed, you know, and the dog we're going to bed and it's nighttime and you know we're tucking in dog jumps up, curls up between us, down, you know, at the lower part of the bed. I think that's fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm okay with the lower part of the bed, I suppose. But you know I well. It's interesting because when we were in Texas, andrew has California king beds and boy oh boy did I notice the difference. Because Ruby has she's like 35 pounds, some, you know. I don't even know what the hell that dog's made of. She looks kind of like a chihuahua slash poodle.
Speaker 1:Whenever you say Mexican street dog, I always think of Mexican street taco. It immediately comes to mind like street taco, street dog.
Speaker 2:I'm going to throw up a picture of her when we post this on YouTube, because she's the funniest looking dog you've ever seen, but she's so cute at the same time.
Speaker 1:And there's room for her in the king, isn't there? Well, that was my point.
Speaker 2:Because California king is six inches longer and I'm not that you know, I'm not that tall, so that's not. But Mary and I had this. We slept in the same bed and so you know, like we've always done when we travel, we always end up doing all that, so everything's for lesbians. We're really not but that. And if we were, who cares? Right?
Speaker 2:but I didn't even notice that Ruby was there because it was you know, and Ruby doesn't shed, really, she doesn't smell, she doesn't, she doesn't get dirty you know, so I'd be like I'd be totally down with her being in there, whereas, like cash little cash man, he he's literally bringing pieces of bark in from outside and chewing them up on my bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they act like they own it yeah, it depends, and see, and therein too, gosh, this could be a lot of topics actually. You know, it depends on how the dog has been raised, how they're trained, what they, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just want to get your like thought process on it because I was curious have you run across people in the past, or your family or anything, that are like, oh my gosh, why do you allow your dog on the bed? Have you never run across that. I've run across men again who have said oh yeah, no dogs in my bed.
Speaker 1:No dogs and I'm just kind of like it's kind of a deal breaker for me, but how can I?
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, although they're minor, little, so I would allow them. But Cashy is like he comes up. I have the blanket at the end of my bed and they lay on the blanket and then chew their little bones or whatever they have for 30 minutes, 45 minutes, something like that. And then I just gets out of his crate and goes and sits at the end of my bed and waits to see what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1:Even if I'm not in there. Yeah Well, he didn't start out being well, like you didn't really have him on the bed. But, now he has worked his way and earned his way, I guess I should say, into being able to spend time on the bed with you and Harlow. Yeah, I know I feel a little bit like we're kind of singling him out because Harlow gets to go in there, she looks at him like neater, neater, and I think it's more the behavior thing, yeah, and how the pets are trained.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. You know so, and I think everybody's lifestyle is a little bit different too. You know, when you think about like, what about eating in bed? Let's, let's just like, expand this, oh like. Have you ever heard that saying it's like well, I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers. Have you ever heard that?
Speaker 1:no, no, I've heard that before.
Speaker 2:it's kind of like well, you know, I'd put, I'd tolerate with a cracker eating, you know, and all the crumbs, cracker eating female.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I mean, would I mean, do you eat in bed?
Speaker 1:Not very often, but I do. Yeah, and I have like popcorn, like I'll have popcorn. I'm trying to think more now, like sometimes I'll have a nice breakfast. On the weekends when I'm not working, I drink coffee in bed all the time. I'll eat sometimes breakfast in bed and popcorn. That's really about it.
Speaker 2:I don't really eat a lot at night, so yeah, so how would you feel about someone ordering DoorDash Mexican food and curling up in bed with their Mexican food and and all their hot sauce and? Everything and having. Would you be OK with that?
Speaker 1:If I was eating some of it too, and I wouldn't care.
Speaker 2:All right Well there's a lot of things to consider about this and I don't want to turn this into, like you know, the the I don't. What do I not want to turn it into? The the topic of learning whether you are have your dog in bed person or not but you were talking about deal breakers.
Speaker 1:So I mean, those are things that can be probably a bone of contention in relationships.
Speaker 2:I think they could be.
Speaker 1:So, you know, it probably depends too and I'm just thinking of the dog in the bed thing and you know, if you're giving it and maybe maybe men are more conscious of it or don't like it, like you mentioned, more than women, because women may tend to be all cuddly and talking to them in their baby voice and giving the animal more attention than they're giving to their partner.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So that could be part of what that is.
Speaker 2:You know, I think I would be worried about having a dog that had a lot of hair and then having like a flea or a tick or something like that, like some kind of parasite. So you know, you see the face I'm making. Yeah, Getting into my bed, I would be so grossed out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So and my dogs, you know there's not a lot of hair there, so it's like you could tell if there was something going on. Plus, they take flea medication. So I'm not really too worried about that. But I would be very worried about that with someone else so about that, but I would be very worried about that with someone else, so, or with another, with another dog, I think, especially one that I didn't necessarily know.
Speaker 1:I think I'd feel kind of uncomfortable. Well, I would hope that you wouldn't get into somebody's bed. If you don't know the dog very well, you probably don't know the guy.
Speaker 2:Has that ever stopped me? Oh, oh, oh oh, okay, totally kidding. Okay, are you? Yes, girl, I am kidding.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm totally kidding. Okay, are you? Yes?
Speaker 2:girl, I am kidding, you know, I'm kidding I know.
Speaker 1:No, she doesn't know, but I am kidding.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, so you know there's that whole thing about okay. So I want to just throw this out there, because I think it's kind of funny that people, myself included, have such an opinion about it. And it's kind of like no dog on the furniture, like can you imagine if my dog there's a lot of people that are their dogs are not allowed on the furniture. Their dogs aren't allowed inside. For god's sake let alone on the furniture.
Speaker 2:I know. I just don't understand why you'd even have a dog if that were the case yeah, and I think it.
Speaker 1:I mean it is different for for people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what about?
Speaker 1:cats. I mean cats. I saw this thing the other day, like it was showing the comparison between, like when a dog gets in, when a dog's in trouble and they know that they did something they shouldn't, and when a cat does so, so, like this guy, he's pretending like he's a dog that did something they shouldn't. You know how dogs?
Speaker 2:are they kind of their tails between the legs?
Speaker 1:They're. They're kind of looking away and their heads kind of down. They totally. All you have to do is say their name you know, like Lotto, and you say it like that and and they're immediately you can tell that it's like they're ashamed. You know cats? On the other hand, they're like fuck you, yeah, yeah. They'd be like sitting at the table smoking a cigarette and then just like knocking something onto the floor just to be a little bit more obnoxious about it. You know, like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2:yeah, that's how cats are but people that are cat, people love cats and I just I know partially it's that I'm allergic to them, to some like that, and they'll cough up like gross hairballs on your carpet or on your bed or I mean dogs do gross things too yeah, I've never had a dog pee in my bed or anything like that. So I mean, but I mean I think cats do that when they're more they're, I mean they're really super smart and they do that to be vindictive and mean, yeah, it's, that's the difference.
Speaker 1:Sorry, all you cat lovers out there.
Speaker 2:I'm just not a cat person, right, but I know lovely people that are cat people. What?
Speaker 1:about that, then you know, flip the script, put yourself in that place. So if you were dating a guy that had a cat that he loved that slept in the bed, I couldn't be there.
Speaker 2:I'm allergic. I mean I literally could not be there, Hypothetically.
Speaker 1:So he's got to get rid of the damn cat. Let's go hypothetical again. Let's say you're not allergic. Okay, would you be cool with getting in the bed with this cat that this guy really loves?
Speaker 2:As long as it stays away from me.
Speaker 1:Even when you're not allergic.
Speaker 2:Like what if it?
Speaker 1:curls up next to you and you know pow.
Speaker 2:I've just never been a cat person, but you know what I mean. It's his, it's his house.
Speaker 1:That's where you get his cat.
Speaker 2:But if I'm allergic, I mean that's honestly a tiny bit of a deal breaker, because I'd never be able to go over to his house In real life?
Speaker 1:Yes, but hypothetically, with the scenarios that we're doing. So you know, if a guy yeah, we got to you know, tit for tat man, sleep in my bed with my dog and I'll sleep in your bed with your cat.
Speaker 2:Okay. So then there's the other thing that has come up about that, and that is some people. Well, it's one way or the other. They either sleep better when they have their pet with them or they sleep terribly because they can't move around without waking the dog up.
Speaker 1:I mean it's funny. Yeah, Lotto used to take up like more than half the bed, just the way he would lay sometimes and I would be on this tiny space.
Speaker 2:Okay, michelle, I'm not even gonna lie. That dog put his head on the pillow, I know, and would lay under the covers with his little head on the pillow. Like he's a human being, yep, and would lay under the covers with his little head on the pillow like he's a human being.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he was warm and cuddly and when I would have my knees bent, he would curl up in the crook of my legs. Yeah, he would like spoon her. Yes, we would spoon.
Speaker 2:OK, now we sound like pathetic cat ladies, but with dogs OK for all of you that don't even like animals, like I'm thinking of my sister listening to this going oh my god, why are we even talking about this? Because she have no pets. Oh my god, no pet. Just mark, who's, by the way, birthday is like he's turning 60. Oh and no, no, no pets, no pets. No fish, no rabbits.
Speaker 1:Nothing, no, gerbils, no, nothing. Well, to your point, she has Mark.
Speaker 2:So that's completely understandable, but it's hilarious whenever even the whole family, like if they come over or they see my dogs, they're like hi. It's kind of like don't get too close. You know what she's thinking don't get too close because you're gonna get like hair on me or something, but I will say that I've been in people's houses before, just generally speaking, like over the course of the time who have dogs that shed a lot my, now I have one that sheds and I'm like it makes me crazy that there's hair.
Speaker 1:I mean Lotto. Shed, he, he shed.
Speaker 2:I did have hair everywhere. I mean I'm starting to make decisions about things based on that vacuuming you know the sticky roller.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my bed. Yeah, I mean, there was, there was hair well, my, my bedding gets washed very frequently just because.
Speaker 2:I like it to be all nice and fresh, but I noticed that, um, uh, the the patio furniture that we have outside, I know you were going to have a little event here. Michelle needs to have people over more often, because she's gotten all this pet hair off of here and it's looking so much better.
Speaker 1:I vacuumed, I vacuumed, I rollered the ball, I did all the stuff. The pet hair Sweeped the. Yeah, okay. So that's one thing.
Speaker 2:It's the pet hair thing that, I think, makes people crazy. And you can go into someone's house and you're like there's pet hair everywhere. So you don't want to sit down, and they may vacuum three times a day, but it doesn't matter. I don't know where the hell these dogs get all this fricking hair. But it's even worse during times of the year when they're like shedding their undercoat or whatever yeah.
Speaker 2:I remember the contractor. We had his dog. Um she, I don't know what she was a collie or something, rick, and that that dog would shed this like tufts of hair that looked like a cotton.
Speaker 1:She was an Australian shepherd but really thick thick.
Speaker 2:She had a thick coat oh yeah, but they'd look like. They'd look like hair balls that would be like going across the lawn or whatever, because she's be outside and it's like. Can you imagine it's like anywhere that she slept was probably covered in that hair and I I don't think I'd like that either. So that's and. But at the same time, most of the dogs that don't shed are designer dogs.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they have hair, they don't have fur, and a designer dog is not one you get at a shelter, typically Right, it's going to be a dog that you buy, and so there is that. So if you rescue dogs or you wanted to have a dog, that's a rescue. Typically you're going to end up with one that probably sheds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that was one thing that I was thinking about. Any more in my menopausal state, or whatever state I'm in right now, there's probably more hair kicking around my place from me.
Speaker 2:Long blonde hair.
Speaker 1:Long blonde hair. I get ready in the morning and then I look down and I'm like, dear God, I gotta like get covered. I'm just like losing all my hair. Let's not talk about the drain either.
Speaker 2:There's that, yeah, okay. So let's go back to dogs in the bed, so okay. So the parasite thing now that I just said that and you had this light bulb go off in your head does that kind of freak you out what do you mean?
Speaker 1:like fleas and paris? Yes, parasites are. I mean ticks.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking ticks, ticks and I mean we don't really have that kind of stuff around ticks here but the flea thing.
Speaker 1:If I had fleas, I think two times in your bed well, I, I mean they, they end up like in your place, and so you know they, they, yeah, so you have to fumigate it's not like there's fleas hopping all over your bed, it's not like that it's.
Speaker 2:They multiply really fast they do.
Speaker 1:It was. It was kind of a thing that was a long time ago, but it was like, yeah, a long time ago, and I'm yeah I mean, I remember watching this reality show, it was okay.
Speaker 2:I'll just say, it was the kardashians this is a long time ago uh-huh when uh kim k was married to one of her many husbands. Um it was. The basket was a basketball player.
Speaker 1:whatever, she was married to him for like five, five minutes yeah.
Speaker 2:And he had like these two cute little Pomeranians and he's some big, huge dude. And he wanted the dogs in the bed and she would not allow it. Really no, she thought it was the grossest thing ever. But he's like they're my dogs, yeah, sleep with me. And so he'd put them up on the bed and she wouldn't sleep in the bed. Oh geez, I know that's a little much.
Speaker 1:But I mean, that's probably what it is like for some people, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, this is a very superfluous topic. What?
Speaker 1:Here we go again, serpifilip.
Speaker 2:Whatever, it's kind of a silly topic and it's one that you know.
Speaker 1:Wait, I'm learning a new word. I usually learn at least one new word per episode.
Speaker 2:I know you're going to have to school me and give me a new word. What was the word? Uh, superfluous, superfluous, superfluous, um, and that means silly Sure, and then and then here's another one. It's like you know these. This might create a visceral response, visceral superfluous topic with a visceral response from some person that's very very angry and upset about visceral.
Speaker 1:Visceral is like like a bad response you know like a silly topic with a bad response well, yeah, I'm just saying it's like for some people this is like not a silly topic right, I know it's not a uh.
Speaker 2:When I say silly, it's not like a topic that uh carries a lot of merit or weight which is hence why we're doing it.
Speaker 1:Substance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because we are not women of substance tonight. We are simply women who want to know what the hell's going on with people that don't want to have dogs in their bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and now we have an idea. I enjoyed having my dog in the bed. So, there's that Okay. So everybody out there, I have no problem admitting it my name is Michelle.
Speaker 2:If you have a dog in your bed and I sleep with my dog, yeah, and you sleep with your dog, more power to you, yeah. And if you have a big, huge dog that drips like from their mouth, like a German Shepherd or Bernard, st Bernard or something, and you want to have a massive bed next to your bed for them to sit in, that's probably a really good idea Accommodating.
Speaker 2:Or you buy a kingdom and then there's room for them at the end, or if you want to be like my sister and pretend that animals don't exist, then that's another option, and just be married to one and just be married to one, all right.
Speaker 1:On that note, check us out on our socials, people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have some fun with this. Go ask your partner. What do you think? Can we have it? Can we have a dog in the bed? Yeah and then he'll say only if you let me eat crackers or something else yeah and on that note okay, have a good one bye.