Dear Hot Stuff,
My girlfriend and I have just begun to do sleep-overs -
which is great and all, don't get me wrong - but ever since, my dog
has been relegated to the sofa! My girlfriend simply refuses to let
her sleep on the bed with us and I can tell she (the dog) is very
unhappy...
I love sleeping with my girl but I think that I love
sleeping with my dog more and the whole thing, silly though it may
seem, makes me question if I could ever fall in love with someone
who doesn't love my dog!
Am I just being daft?
Marion from Canterbury
Dear Canine-Crush from Canterbury,
Well now, my poor darling, I totally 100% sympathize with your
current predicament, even though it's more than likely that some
readers are scratching their heads and thinking WTF?
I too, have a lovely, shiny, smelly baby doggy-woggy-woo, whom I
absolutely adore and who is, just like yours it sounds, the love of
my life. Luckily my girlfriend lets her sleep with us though.
(They're both French and big on ménage-à-trois…) So whilst I
fully comprehend the sheer scale, size and weight of the problem at
hand, I do think we should treat it with a dash of
perspective.
Let's face it, it's probably not normal that we
privilege a romantic evening in bed with our dogs over our
girlfriends.
Or is it?
Anyway, we could debate the advantages (dogs don't hog the
sheets) and disadvantages (spooning's off the cards) of
canine cuddling another day. In the meantime I suggest your
girlfriend and your dog go on a date and get to know one
another a little more intimately. Perhaps even spend a night
together (perhaps "in one another's company" would be a better
phrase; you're all bloody filthy). Once her opinion of pooch
bed-sharing is more balanced, then a much more informed discussion
could be had. She might fall in love with doggy breath and hairs in
the bed. But until then, she'll never know!
Remember, her resistance doesn't make her a bad person. Maybes
she's just more of a cat person? Ooh, now there's an
idea!
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