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Many books and movies have observed our closeness with our domestic animals but this book concentrates on one phenomenon only—sharing the bed for sleep.
In 2012 my beloved Lola, a Cockapoo (Cocker-Poodle mix), had to be put down. A horrible decision for anyone and certainly for me who felt that Lola and I were teammates. She was demonstrative and affectionate. She lay by my side at night on the bed. A comforting, reassuring, warm presence that I could reach out to touch during the night. Waking up with Lola beside me was a loving way to start my day.
So when I had to relieve Lola of the misery of her disabilities, her absence at night and in the morning grieved me. There was a hole in my heart.
Realizing her nightly nearness meant so much to me, I got the idea that others may feel the same. I started researching to write a book about sleeping with your pets, domestic animals, best friends, whatever-you-call-them. I couldn’t find any other book on the subject at the time. So I’m offering you this gift from Lola. We both hope you enjoy it.
In our industrialized world, human society has become so compartmentalized and individuals so alienated from each other that more and more people are welcoming primates, birds, ungulates and reptiles into their intimate spaces.
Humans share DNA with every living creature from primates to yeast. But we don’t have to refer to biology to convince each other of the bond we share with the rest of the animal world, of how precious their presence is to us and vice versa.
More people are living singly today. Nuclear families—already diminished from the multigenerational households experienced until the last century—are breaking up. While individualism and independence are the hallmarks of American values, they lead so often to loneliness, depression, frustration and hopelessness.
When you read these sketches of people’s experiences, you may find yourself among them. Please smile. You may even shed a tear occasionally. I hope these stories from real people like you and me lighten your heart.
Cat Naps Doggie Snorts The Joy of Sleeping with Critters edition by Francine Brevetti Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
What a heart warming book! I laughed and cried while reading these wonderful stories. Let's face it, the majority of pet owners out there allow their pets to sleep with them - whether in or out of the bed covers - they are sleeping on the bed with their owners. Every pet owner will relate to these stories and wish they had been asked to convey their own stories. My particular favorite was about Grace who has a menagerie of pets including a little three legged dog name Brooklyn who runs rings around his little brothers and sisters.Thank you, Francine for writing a book all can relate to!
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Cat Naps Doggie Snorts The Joy of Sleeping with Critters edition by Francine Brevetti Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks Reviews
How many of you have lain half the night immobile and uncomfortable in bed because you’d rather suffer than move and wake the dog or cat snuggled up tightly beside you? Me too.
My partner has two cats who like to climb onto the bed about 2 am, walk all over us to find a good spot, like on top of my chest or right between us, get some attention as they purr loudly, and then leave.
We could be characters in “Cat Naps & Doggie Snorts The Joy of Sleeping with Critters,” a new book that pays homage to the joys and woes of letting your pets sleep on your bed.
The author, Francine Brevetti, was moved to write it after the passing of her Cockapoo. “Waking up with Lola beside me was a loving way to start my day,” she writes in a personal introduction. But with the pet gone, there “was a hole in my heart. Realizing her nightly nearness meant so much to me, I got the idea that others may feel the same.”
Indeed, others do.
About 42% of dog owners and a whopping 59% of cat owners let their pets share the bed at night, and about half of both dogs and cats prefer the bed to other locations. Young single women are the most likely to let their dogs share the covers; at the other end, married men over 45 are most likely to kick them out (but even then, 40% let them stay).
And yet, sleeping with two dogs “is the best birth control ever,” says one woman in the book. In all, Brevetti, a local journalist and now book-writing coach, shares the stories of 75 individuals and couples who may get some sleepless nights but wouldn’t have it any other way.
No two of them have the same experience. In separate chapters the authors tells of pets who love to sleep or won’t let you sleep, who prefer your pillow to your feet, who take up more of the bed than you do. Some will let you sleep all day while others want you up at 500 am — to feed them, of course! That’s just the start.
For balance of sorts, there’s also a chapter on what people-doctors have to say about the health dangers of letting animals under the covers. Predictably the well-meaning buzzkills say not to do it, but no one can actually point to any more than anecdotal problems, and “these opinions seem to have little effect” on pet owners anyway. People will be people.
The need for closeness
Indeed, major historical personalities from Alexander the Great to England’s Queen Victoria slept with their favorite pets at their side. So do stars like Paris Hilton and George Clooney.
But “in our industrialized world, human society has become so compartmentalized and individuals so alienated from each other that more and more people are welcoming” dogs, cats, and incredibly even rodents, birds, and reptiles “into their intimate spaces,” Brevetti writes.
Another reason she wrote the book was her despair over the way so many people “demean animals and by extension our relationship with them. … We crop their ears and dock their tails. We pull out their claws. And yet we condemn torture among humans.”
She hopes that casting a “spotlight on a seemingly trivial slice of our lives with animals can soften that aggression a bit.”
Considering how much time humans spend in bed and how many of us own pets, I’d say the topic is no trivial matter at all. Pets provide contact and intimacy at times when otherwise we might have none at all. They get us through tough times. They halve our sorrows and double our joys.
It’s nice to have a book that takes the matter seriously and at the same time be a fun and lighthearted read.
I enjoyed this book. It's a collection of 75 short stories about people and the animals they share their beds with at night. Most of the stories are about cats and/or dogs, but there are some about more exotic pets such as a rabbit, rats, and even a snake! There are cute animal themed quotes inserted throughout the book and some black and white images.
Each individual story is short, but the book is 132 pages all together. I found it to be a great book to relax with before bed. When I was feeling particularly tired I could just read a few pages, a story or two, and not have to worry about stopping mid chapter like I sometimes do with other books. Each story is individual, so even if you have to stop reading mid chapter, it's easy to just pick up from the next story when you have the time to read again. This was awesome for me, as I sometimes (unfortunately) don't have a lot of time to read.
Animal fanciers will delight in this book about the joys of sleeping with your pets. Francine Brevetti relates dozens of stories, some amusing, some poignant and some tragic about pet owner’s experiences of sharing bed space with their dogs and cats or in some cases, with goats, pigs, snakes, rats, wolf hybrids, birds, rabbits, and what not.
Some of Francine’s interviewees welcomed their pets from the beginning to share their beds. For others, it was a matter of the animal’s will overcoming an initial reluctance. Since I have a Ridgeback mix named Lucca, I was delighted to find another Lucca in Francine’s book
“Lucca is a 10-year-old Border Collie Mix living in Mill Valley. California, with Shel Moquin. Originally Lucca never slept with his human companion. Then, as Moquin tells it, “Five years ago one morning he scared the hell out of me. He woke me up one morning while he was having a grand mal seizure. At 2 A.M. in the morning he was banging his head against the floor. My sister-in-law was with me and I woke her and told her, ‘hurry up. We have to get dressed and take Lucca to the emergency.’
“Since the seizure, I have him next to me in bed to make sure that I can take care of him if he needs me. He was having three or four (seizures) a day at that time. I was so worried about him because he’s like a child to me. I treated him for 10 months with Phenobarbital and he got over it.
Francine’s book is sprinkled with quote by famous people concerning the nature of dogs and cats. For example “I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”-Hippolyte Taine. And “You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘my God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!”-Dave Berry.
On training “The drill goes like this, meow often, get close to the face and ear-increase volume and frequency. Walk heavily across the middle of the sleeper, keep this up until they at least move. Finally, if all else fails, lick eyelids, lips and make sure whiskers go up nose. . . .that does it! ‘Mom’ is up and getting the wet cat food dished out. Then we can go back to bed and get in a few more winks. The human, perhaps 20 minutes, the cat, another four hours. The moral of this story is that cats can train their human servants quite effectively!”
Personally, my dogs are content to sleep on the carpet near my bed, but my cat, after ten years of complete independence and aloofness has recently become a bed cat, so I have unwittingly joined the ranks of humans who share a bed with an animal.
Reading this book it is quite natural for a certain question to pop into one’s mind, and Francine remarks
“How does a couple manage their romantic life with animals between them?”
“Ah, that’s a subject for a different kind of book.”
Francine Brevetti is an excellent writer and interviewer. How else could she have gotten people to admit these fabulous true stories? And, they are fabulous! A great gift for animal lovers everywhere. A unique and wonderful book.
What a heart warming book! I laughed and cried while reading these wonderful stories. Let's face it, the majority of pet owners out there allow their pets to sleep with them - whether in or out of the bed covers - they are sleeping on the bed with their owners. Every pet owner will relate to these stories and wish they had been asked to convey their own stories. My particular favorite was about Grace who has a menagerie of pets including a little three legged dog name Brooklyn who runs rings around his little brothers and sisters.
Thank you, Francine for writing a book all can relate to!
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