Remember the children’s story “Goldilocks & the Three Bears”? Well, we’ve had a similar story playing out here in the house. We had a new foster sibling – a young beagle pup. Pixie and Ugg have been acting like the 3 bears. Neither one want to sleep where the pup has slept. I will admit, he smelled a little funky – but he couldn’t have a bath due to the fact he’d had a couple surgeries and needed to heal up first. Pup, Otis, started out laying on the love seat which has a blanket covering it. The blanket must have picked up his funky smell because Pixie & Ugg started to avoid spending any time on it.

Then came the big one! Mom was looking for Otis one morning, and she found him curled up in Pixie’s crate! Mom knew that this was going to be trouble. Pixie loves her crate and sleeps in it every night, she goes to it on her own and doesn’t have the door closed on it. Pixie noticed that someone had been sleeping in her bed right off. And she was not pleased! Mom immediately pulled all the bedding out and washed it. As soon as it came out the dryer, Pixie’s eyes lit up. She appeared to be so excited that the puppy smell was gone.

So my question is this – is Pixie just strange? Or do other pups hate it when someone else sleeps in their beds?