A surprising new study found that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep.

And we feel safer sleeping with our dogs, hinting at “a deeper evolutionary history” between humans and dogs, said study co-author Ming Fei Li, who was a graduate student of evolutionary anthropology during the research.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone seems to be taking this as the dogs being in the bed. Our dog is welcome to be there but prefers not to. Im pretty sure she gets to hot. She only goes on 1: to wake us up or 2: when she is really scared. She does however often lay on the floor right next to me and I will sometimes pet her if im awake at the time. She is still sleeping nearby.