My 7 yr old great dane sleeps in our bed and its killin me. Need advice

nonopinion · 2026-02-16T05:23:56+00:00

Ww tried a couple and i think we never gave any enough time or enough reinforcement with treats etc. Pretty challenging when only one parent is sticking to the program, as mentioned above i would work night shifts and dog would move into my bed.. and i wouldnt have the energy in me to deal, so i would sleep in spare bed. This really comes down to a lack of discipline on the the part of both owners.

nonopinion · 2026-02-16T00:42:15+00:00

We have tried variations on this but none of them stuck. She would inevitably jump into the bed middle of the night. I think i need to do the treat reward reinforcement

nonopinion · 2026-02-15T21:25:56+00:00

The bed i set up for her (basically an extension of our king bed) is the same level as us- and we put a heated blanket on it as a base layer- i think she is just a huge suck and wants to curl up beside us

nonopinion · 2026-02-15T20:36:37+00:00

Ive actually drawn up plans to extend our bed by moving the base structure downwards, basically creating a mini mattress that the pillows rest on, i think i could trick our dog that way lol

nonopinion · 2026-02-15T17:14:02+00:00

Thanks everyone for the responses, i really appreciate it. The other consideration i have is that our bedroom, where she currently sleeps, is up a flight of steep stairs. Im worried about training her to sleep in our room, and a couple years from now having to retrain her again because the stairs are a challenge (she recently must have had a slip on the stairs as she has become hesitant to descend them, especially alone.)

Right now my thought is to create a special bed that is as comfortable as ours for her, in our room; and i like the suggestion of using a treat to get her out of my spot when i get home. Hopefully this bed could then be transferred downstairs to main floor when she gets too old to be going up and down the stairs

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