Hygiene is basic when sharing a bed with a pet. Nowadays, there are many people who love their pets as if they were their own children. Therefore, it is not uncommon for them to sleep curled up with their dogs in bed. However, there is no shortage of those who claim that this is an unhygienic practice that can cause all kinds of diseases and “spoil”, in a sense, the animal.
What is the right choice?
According to the digital version of the newspaper “Clarín”, anyone who wants to put their dog to bed has to take into account that animals lose hair and usually have dirty paws from walking on the floor. However, the first difficulty also afflicts human beings and the second can be solved with a good bath. However, and as a veterinarian explains to the newspaper, it is important to have dewormed the animal to avoid living in bed with fleas or ticks.
The situation changes if the animal in question causes us allergy, because in that case it should not lie in the same bed, although it should not live with the affected person either. However, except for this difficulty, experts such as veterinarian Guillermo Di Federico explain to “Clarín” that “it is an individual decision” and that, according to him, “it is a mutual benefit as long as the owner likes to do it.”
In turn, the doctor also states that pets such as dogs have the tendency to sleep next to beings with whom they feel an affinity, so they do not usually complain.
In this sense, veterinarian Ricardo Bruno says that we must never forget that dogs are not humanized (that is, that they do not feel like people because they sleep in bed, a space not created for animals).
On the contrary, this is a practice that can occur in the mind of the owner, who usually sees the animal as a friend with the same characteristics as a person.
Source: Diario Uno
