On the Edge
One on my lap and one by my side,
Queen-sized or king-sized, no matter how wide,
I’m always pushed out to the edge of the bed.
though I’d rather be in the middle, instead.
The tinier dog snuggles close as she’s able,
leaving me hanging out touching the table,
while the little-bit-larger dog curls on my lap
and no matter how much I wiggle or tap,
she will not budge to allow me to shift.
I know she considers her presence a gift.
One burrows closer under my arm,
as though by her presence she’s warding off harm,
but it makes typing hard with my arm in the air,
lest I disturb one of this bed-hogging pair.
Not fiction!!!!!! 5 a.m., weighted down and on the edge!!!!!
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
It’s just like sharing a bed with small kids. 😂😂😂
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It’s been a long time since I’ve done that, but these creatures? Every night.
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My grandson, on a few occasions when he was a baby used to sleep vertically between me and my husband. Both of us clinging to the edge of the bed on both sides 😂😂😂
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That happened to me with a German Shepherd, Sadje, and he pushed both of us out of bed–one on each side–when he switched to a horizontal position and spread out his legs front and back and pushed!
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Must be very tough 😂😅
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Adorable. There’s no greater love than being in the middle. 💜
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Actually, I think the one who sacrifices the middle displays the greatest love! ;o)
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The fur babies always come first. 😍
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They are so good at demanding it.
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Sounds like my cats! They snuggle in close and pin me down–but it’s comforting.
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Yes. I have cats, too, but they have been relegated to their cushy bed in the garage. The big gray male cat acted as mother to Zoe (a dog) when she was a baby, however. So sweet. Now they’ve reverted to their more stereotypical relationship of dog-chase-cat.
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Hahaha – having two little dogs I can attest to the problem
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Coco just loves to lay her chin over my keyboard…Hard to write a blog under those conditions.
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Impossible cuteness.
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Do I see a change in your attitude about them~? It seems that you once even had a special room for them. Or is it just that you are finally admitting that they, in a large part, do control your life~!
Mine each have their station on the bed but then Tami is so damn jealous that she must place herself between them and me. I can’t hear her at night, but if I have my hand on her, I can feel a low, high frequency, growl coming from her if they get too close to ME, not her.
My advantage over you is that the largest one of the three is actually Coco, a cat, which is larger than Tami who only weighs 10 pounds but look larger. But I just gave her the usual spring clipping so she even looks much smaller now with less hair~! Her hair is so fine that she comes into the house with stickers stuck in it if I do not clip her in the spring.
They are so set in their habits that if one is missing, I worry that I may have shut one up in a room where they have followed me. This has happened in the past, where i would find one in the guest bedroom too late and I usually keep that door closed. So now i have a “water proof” coverlet over that bed just in case ( I ) screw up. Being so deaf that i can not hear them telling me that they “can’t get out”, until i miss them at bed time.
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I did build a special room for them with their own fridge in it. I feed them in this room and Morrie’s cage and bed are in it but the two little ones sleep with me. Sometimes Morrie does as well but then it’s a real crush. I haven’t changed my attitude. Love them to death even when they tear up 200 peso bills and tear my fragile arm skin bounding over me out of bed to defend me from some (imaginary) intruder.
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OMG, I knew you were good, but in fact you’re brilliant 👍👍👍
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Oh Nancy, that’s just leftover gratitude for my introducing you to those “liter” margaritas.
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I hear you~! My special room is what we planned to be, and actually called “The Sun Porch”, but never used it as such, (I actually have porches on three sides of my house, the full wall facing the South East has glass windows that open with screens from 2 feet, up to the top, The S.E. corner of this glassed off room has been partition off and is what I call my “man cave”, for the spa and sauna, so they are actually open in the summer.. However the “sun porch” is mostly for the two Cat Boxes and a catchall for such as bird food, dog food, and cat food containers… For good reason, though I do have a feeding dish out there for Coco who was fussy about eating with the others. The rest get to eat and have water in the kitchen because “their master” is too lazy to do it otherwise.
SAM & Tami
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It helps to have a feeding room, as my dogs do. The cats have their own catfood closet built onto the wall outside my kitchen, but they eat outside..or in the rain, in the garage. Well, sometimes, in the house, but the male kitty has decided lately to use my leg as a scratching post and I’m tired of being bandaged, so he has been banned from polite inside company. He doesn’t do it maliciously, but as a call for attention and gesture on endearment, but it doesn’t work as even if I do pick him up, he kneads my lap with his claws as well. I think he misses mothering Zoe.
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