Sleeping with Your Dogs When it Storms

Sleeping with Your Dogs When it Storms

Sleeping with Your Dogs When it Storms

Many of us have our pets sleep with us in our beds; I think it's great and they keep you warmer than an electric blanket. I love having our dogs in our room at night. It makes me feel safe. However, I must say, during a storm at night, its not so nice. Don't get me wrong, I love our dogs, but when a storm hits it is a free-for-all on their part. We have three dogs: Barley, Guinness (you know the boys from the dog blog) and my grand dog Jackson. When a storm comes at night, all three feel the need to be up around my face and head, or lying over my body or just digging at me to get under the covers as fast as they can. I do my best to calm them all down, but once you get one calmed down, another one starts, and it's all on again. This is when I get NO sleep and I have to come in to the office looking like a zombie. Well, on June 18, 2014, and again on October 6, 2014, it was a great light show from the lighting during a storm. The thunder was loud and the dogs were showing me how afraid they were. Truth be told, I'm really not crazy about storms either. We all sat in bed watching what we could on the TV, with the volume turned up extra loud to try to drown out the thunder. Nothing, and I mean nothing, worked. They were on the bed, off the bed, under the bed, beside the bed, in the master bathroom, in the closets and once again, nothing worked. I finally got all three of them to lie down on the bed with me. That turned into a jocking for a position around my face and head. I tried to explain that just lying with me was ok; they didn't need to be lying on my face and head and I don't know why they just didn't understand that. It's funny how dogs can comprehend so many things, but they just didn't understand that me trying to breath was important, not only to me, but for them too. After the big storms passed and they all laid down, up close and all in my face - panting in my face I might add, my alarm clock went off. I just laid there after I shut my alarm off and thought, "Oh my stars, how am I going to go into the office and function??" I just need a few hours of sleep and I can make it though the whole day. Well, I made it to work and was functional. I might not be 100 percent on those days, but I do my best to make it and try to look like I know what I'm doing. I love my boys very much, but when it comes to storms, I think we are all going to start to sleep in the basement family room. Bark on Bordas Dog Nation, Bark on.