Here’s one for you. “An Examination of Adult Women’s Sleep Quality and Sleep Routines in Relation to Pet Ownership and Bedsharing.” Researchers found that overall, women got better sleep when they share the bed with a dog. Not so much with a cat or a person. It sure as hell isn’t one of my dogs.
Compared with human bed partners, dogs who slept in the owner’s bed were perceived to disturb sleep less and were associated with stronger feelings of comfort and security. Conversely, cats who slept in their owner’s bed were reported to be equally as disruptive as human partners, and were associated with weaker feelings of comfort and security than both human and dog bed partners. Follow-up research is necessary to determine if pet owners’ perceptions of pets’ impacts on their sleep align with objective measures of sleep quality.
Sleep like a baby – Up every two hours.
When we let Cosmo on the bed, say we’re watching TV or something, he owns it. That’s 88 pounds of labrador stretched out on a queen-size mattress. I’m sure he sleeps better. We don’t.
Now, remove a person, in this case, me, and maybe the math improves for my wife. But the big dog is still a big dog, and he likes to stretch out. So, type of dog matters.
Speaking for myself, I sleep like crap when my wife is out of town. Having a dog in the bed does not help. Which suggests to me that there needs to be yet another parameter in this study. Who is the adult human? What is the relationship? How long?
As for our pups, we don’t actually let Cosmo sleep in the bed. Carly (70 lb lab-shepherd) is almost 13 and she can’t get up or down off the bed anymore. She used to live on our bed. And we slept poorly for it. She has her own bed on the floor. And there are no more dogs on our bed. But that doesn’t help us answer the real question. What’s the point of the research?
I’m not sure I want to know. The article link next to is titled “The Anthropomorphic Application of Gender Stereotypes to Horses.”
I think the point is that somebody has to much time on their hands and should be cut off from access to other people’s money.
