Lint Roller Dance

I know y'all have been wondering how it's been going with sharing our bed with the beasties.  

Well...

Josie's persistence is both infuriating and adorable.  She wants to get in the bed first, doesn't care how much of her is on the bed, and once a human is in bed with her, she tries to completely suck the life out of them.  A cuddlepire??

She also brings toys.  Waking up with a slobbery dog toy plastered to your face is really unacceptable.  Throwing the toy out of the bed only encourages the behavior. She just retrieves it, which is dumb as heck and makes no sense, right?  So we haven't really figured out a solution yet.

Josie loves some cuddles but usually dumps us after a couple hours. 

Margo gets so excited she dances around the bed in a fur frenzy.  This is a dog who didn't have the word, "dancing" in her vocabulary prior to this.  She does politely wait for us, then jumps up on her own (but refuses to get in our cars without help. SUCKAHS).

She only wants a couple cuddles before abandoning us. She has mastered the art of not touching us, sometimes for hours, which seems unusual for a dog who is a complete beggar for attention and almost as large as a pony.  I recently figured out her motive.  She knows our bed is the biggest and softest in the house.  She does not care that there are humans in it.  She just wants the biggest and softest bed.

And she stays the whole night.

When I wake up, I throw my body over her, only to see her expression, which is always the same: "OMGAWD why is there a human in my bed?!?!?"

As for letting them up once a week before we wash the bedding?  Well that went to hell after one night.  

Each night I use a lint roller to get some of the hair off, and naturally Margo interprets the sound of the lint roller as her formal invitation, and that's when she starts dancing.