who lets the dog sleep in the bed?

Oh, that's right -- I do!!  There was some report that came out recently about how you're not supposed to let your pets sleep in your bed because you'll get fleas and all kinds of other nasty stuff, but that's a bunch of phooey.  Plus, my dog doesn't have fleas, so I'm not really worried right now.

Claudius has a little routine every night.  He spends the night lounging on the couch or in his chair, and then when it's time for bed, I go and get ready and then I come back into the living room and say, "Let's go!", at which point he grabs himself a Milk Bone (or a cookie, as we like to call it) and RUNS off to the bedroom, up his stairs (yes, he has his own set of stairs to get on the bed), and waits.

In the morning, he also has a routine.  He sleeps on top of the covers all night, and mostly away from me (no snuggling or anything), but in the morning, when he first wakes up, he comes over to me and nudges the edge of the comforter with his nose, which is code for, "LET ME IN!".  I lift up the covers and he wiggles his way underneath and curls up next to me.  One of my favorite times of the day, and one of the reasons why I have such a hard time getting up in the morning (aside from general laziness, of course).

Sometimes the world is just too much.  Sometimes I wish I could just bury my face in bed and hide from life!