Should you let your pets sleep on your bed? 🤔 Animal lovers and experts weigh in:
These can be contagious to adults and young people, especially if they have compromised immune systems. Cats, on the other hand, are cleaner because they wash themselves every day, although they can still transfer dirt, mites, fungal infections and parasites into the bed.
For most people, this doesn’t generally have serious consequences, however, anyone allowing pets in bed, every three to four days, and their duvet cover every week. And ideally, wash the dog, too. How often you wash them depends on the breed and their coat, but generally at least once or twice a month, and perhaps more if they’ve been for a particularly muddy walk or have been rolling around in anything especially dirty while out and about.
The thing is, it’s not always up to humans. Aimee Meade’s best laid plans went awry as soon as she got her. “My boyfriend and I were very much in the no cats on the bed/in the bedroom at night camp but we have very much failed,” says the assistant opinion editor.“Our bedroom door doesn’t shut properly, so as soon as my fluffballs knew they could bulldoze their way in there was no hope.
Another cat inheritor is copy editor Jonathan Harwood, who became custodian of elderly Chairman Miaow. “He arrived already of the opinion that beds were not just for humans and efforts to get him to change his ways failed miserably, as he would just stand outside the bedroom door and live up to his name… relentlessly. This morning, half an hour before my alarm, I was roused from my slumber by the sound of him coughing up a furball – but at least he jumped down onto the floor before throwing up.
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