The Smaller They Are

Did you ever notice that the smaller dogs are, the more room they take up? That was the case last night when Jake went to sleep on the floor, Max decided to sleep in his space.

First, it was something I should have discouraged, which I usually do, but last night I was extra tired from taking an allergy pill, my medications that I take at bedtime, and a sleeping pill, because I knew that if I didn't the allergy pill would keep me awake.

It did me hardly any good, thanks to Max. For a little dog, he takes up a heck of a lot of room, plus he snores. If that wasn't bad enough, he snuggled himself right next to me with his head either on my pillow, which isn't that big, or buried his nose under it, so that when he snored, it went right in my ear.

If he wasn't right there next to me, he curled himself into a ball, but did it so that he had most of my side of the bed and I was sleeping, or rather trying to, practically on top of Dave. Shucks, even Jake or Angel, when she sleeps there, isn't THAT bad about hogging space and they're bigger than Max is.

When he sleeps in his usual spot, at the bottom of the bed, Max will stretch himself out width wise, across the bottom of the bed so that between him and Angel, I have hardly any foot room. In the summer it's not a problem because both of them sleep on the floor and since Rolli can't jump on the bed anymore and Jake has started sleeping on the floor, it gives Dave and I our bed back. Jake will, in the middle of the night, jump back on the bed, but only for a little while. When the weather gets colder however, Max and Angel are back on the bed. You know that warm air rises and cold air falls thing, I think that's why.

I really don't mind them sleeping on the bed, but geeze, we have the biggest size made, a California king, and when they take up most of it, there's no room for us. Something's gotta give. Maybe we should just sleep on the sofa bed and give them our bed, think that'll work? Nah, they'll be in there sleeping with us and taking up that bed too.