For many years, the Scotties in our family were not allowed on the couch. Finally, after Wen moved to an apartment for awhile in 2006, Kirby, Sunny, and Frosty sneaked up on the couch and were allowed to stay there from then on. When they moved to our current house, there was brand new furniture and the “no dogs on the couch” rule was enforced again, but after awhile, the three dogs started jumping up on the couch and Wen decided to protect the couch and love seat with quilted couch protectors after she realized that she was fighting a losing battle by trying to keep dogs off the furniture.
By the time I came along and then Molly and Sadie, thanks to those couch protectors, we were hanging out on the couch all the time and have been ever since, so I guess you could call us serious couch potatoes, but there is still one house rule that is firmly in place: no dogs on the beds!
