Pets in Bed, more Dangerous Than Bedbugs.

[j-kid]

Pets in Bed: More Dangerous Than Bedbugs?

Sleeping With Dogs, Cats Linked to Disease, Infections, Parasites

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD Jan. 14, 2011 -- We're all having nightmares about bedbugs, but your bed pets may be the real danger.

In the U.S, surveys indicate that up to 56% of dog owners and 62% of cat fanciers regularly fall asleep with their pets in their bed. Reports from the U.K., Netherlands, France, and Japan suggest that this isn't a peculiarly American quirk.

But those cuddly pets harbor some icky germs, worms, and cooties, note Bruno B. Chomel, DVM, PhD, of the University of California, Davis, and Ben Sun, DVM, of the California Department of Health.

"Sharing our resting hours with our pets may be a source of psychological comfort, but ... sharing is also associated with risks," they write in the current issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

It's not just small animals. Chomel and Sun note that a survey recently reported by WebMD showed that 62% of small dogs, 41% of medium-sized dogs, and 32% of large dogs sleep in their humans' beds.

So what do these bed pets bring to our beds?

http://www.webmd.com/news/20110114/bed-pets-more-dangerous-than-bedbugs

[jamaica_dreamin]

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Barney has his own bed beside our bed.

[Peasie]

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I submit that sleeping with people can be more dangerous than sleeping with pets.

[Nanook]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I submit that sleeping with people can be more dangerous than sleeping with pets. </div></div>

I second that motion. Of course, I keep my dogs clean and parasite free.

It is not a new thing to sleep with dogs...The original saying &quot;three dog night&quot; was a phrase used by aborigines in the Australian outback to describe how cold it could get; a &quot;three dog night&quot; meant a very cold night requiring huddling with three dogs for warmth.

I have 3 dogs on my bed this fine -30 below windchill morning! We are nice and toasty warm too.

[kia027]

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Clancy has his own bed in each bedroom and in my mothers space he likes to fling her pillows off the small sofa and curl up there when he wants to sleep with her. So she put up sheets on that sofa at night and moves the pillows, washes the sheets the next day

Come to think of it, he knocks on our door when he wants to come in the room at night.

[Jazz]

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Max's bed is downstairs... he is not allowed on the second level where the bedrooms are... he will stand at the foot of the stairs and peer up hopefully but he knows - not a paw above the bottom step

[missus_vegas]

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kissteeth. mi click pan di link hoping to find some stats and numbers saying that there is an increase in these diseases etc and that it is linked to pets sleepers. i so wanted something to call dahjah about so mi and him could laff at u guys but that that was a stupid article. saying a whole lot of nothing.

[Stormmey]

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Well I am not a dog person....cat person....so no dogs in my bed....not even in my house......they are always outside....and yes them space warm.....my dogs are guard dogs ....not pets as I live a bush..... so, them other four foot critters always wander around....news up here always giving some alert like Bear spotted close to houses so be on the alert. When dogs go crazy you know them get a sniff of Bear.....coyote.....fox etc.

.....and even if I was a dog person I still would not want them in my bed.....if you have your dog in your bed your bizniz....I doan care.

btw... I would never deliberately illtreat any animal.....matterfact I will admire Fido from afar.....I am not kissing him.....do not bring him/her in my car in my house.....on my chesterfield....etc....etc.........sore point with me and some of my family members .....it's my car and I say Fido na come in a mi cyar....dem think mi strange.....and I think dem wussa strange....is allright my jamaican family think I am just great

anyway I love looking at the doggie pics. on here and will champion any cause for cruelty against animals. Will not have them as pets but would never illtreat them

[UKBlackLady]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well I am not a dog person....cat person....so no dogs in my bed....not even in my house......they are always outside....and yes them space warm.....my dogs are guard dogs ....not pets as I live a bush..... so, them other four foot critters always wander around....news up here always giving some alert like Bear spotted close to houses so be on the alert. When dogs go crazy you know them get a sniff of Bear.....coyote.....fox etc.

.....and even if I was a dog person I still would not want them in my bed.....if you have your dog in your bed your bizniz....I doan care.

btw... I would never deliberately illtreat any animal.....matterfact I will admire Fido from afar.....I am not kissing him.....do not bring him/her in my car in my house.....on my chesterfield....etc....etc.........sore point with me and some of my family members .....it's my car and I say Fido na come in a mi cyar....dem think mi strange.....and I think dem wussa strange....is allright my jamaican family think I am just great

anyway I love looking at the doggie pics. on here and will champion any cause for cruelty against animals. Will not have them as pets but would never illtreat them

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What Stormmey said...

[Skelly]

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eeh hee

[Peasie]

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Some of us have slept with a few dogs.

[Nanook]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Some of us have slept with a few dogs. </div></div>

The 3 legged variety can be much worse than any 4 legged ones!

[evanovitch]

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my dawgs no have contact wid odda dawgs pon a regular basis so dem naw pick up nutten..dem go doctor more dan me...i am di one who notice seh di male dawg eyes looked sad an took him in n got anti-depressants so u can see mi tek dem go vet at the drop of a pin

my babies sleep on the bed wen dem want....is not like u an di dawg lie dung pon pillow a chat r hug up...dem usually find dem spot whe dem can stretch out an kick up dem four paws....

already know wat u can ketch from a dawg n tek care since mi sista still building up har immune system but my babies r not like odda dawgs