Aw! What an adorable picture! I'm definitely not the right person to ask. I'm really not a dog lover, so my advice would be to not have any pets. If I say that not loving dogs is my only bad trait, would you believe it? Yeah, me neither.

I say let him sleep in bed. I don't see the harm in it. And Rochelle, I highly doubt you have that many bad traits!

Sweet picture!!!!!! Well Chewy, my sister's dog(a rat terrier) has adopted me and he sleeps with me, under the cover no less(he actually gets under the cover when it's bed time to remind me to turn that dad-blamed computer off!LOL So I vote for Toby & Travis together! GB you and yours!~Bekka

I let my cat sleep with me, so I can hardly say no However, I would suggest you see how it goes, they may actually disturb each other, and your son certainly needs his sleep. So be guided by it's success. Or keep them apart altogether, in the room but not together seems cruel!

I can only tell you my experience. Our dog sleeps with my husband and me, but that didn't start until he was housebroken. At about the same time the boys got out of school for the summer so they were staying up late. There's no way he wanted to be put in the cage when people were around. Actually these days he starts out on the bed, but he soon jumps off and sleeps on the floor next to my side of the bed.

I don't know, not having had experiences of dogs and both of my cats being the unloving kind. However, if you do decide to let Toby sleep with Travis, it's not the end of the world if anything goes wrong and you can always backtrack later; if it doesn't work out and Toby is still needing to be confined to Travis' room then he can go back in the cage. If something happens when he's older then he can be put in a different room in the house and Travis can just shut his door if he doesn't want Toby.
So I guess you may as well try It sounds to me as though you're quite happy for Toby to sleep with Travis as long as both are okay!

Well...I don't know, I wouldn't sleep with my dog, but like two years ago I would have, but my parents didn't let me. I think that nothing can happen if you try...

What a sweet picture! Well, all four of my dogs are allowed up on furniture, but the two dogs at my Mom's house are allowed to sleep on the bed. Personally, I'd wait until he hasn't had any accidents in the house for quite a while though. Nothing is worse than an accident on the bed. I'd say give it a shot!

Rochelle - I know what you mean..I had fought to not have a dog for a long time but the family finally won. But now that I have Toby, I love him to pieces and can't imagine not having him! And I can't see you having many bad traits. Nope!

Taylor - You are biased because you want him to sleep on your bed too! We will have to do a sleeping schedule for Toby between you and Travis!

Bekka - LOL! Leave it to an animal to tell us our bedtime! I know Toby will sometimes bark at me if I am at the computer and he wants to play! Linsey - I am beginning to see that the cage in his room is not going to work out. He has began barking when Travis is trying to go to sleep. His cage was put in our room and he is fine. We have a small house but we are trying to find a place to put his cage away from the bedrooms for when we leave.

IM - Sounds good. I only wish that I could talk dog so that he knew if he stopped having accidents, he could sleep on the beds! Shana - You are right. We can always go with the flow to see what happens. I wish your cats would cuddle with you. With Toby being a lap dog, it is soooo nice to be cuddled at night!

Rosario - You are right! Nothing ventured, nothing gained! I think every child wants to sleep with their pet. I think it's a comfort thing for both the child and the pet!

Meggie - Thanks! That is my thought too about waiting til house broken. Unfortunately after this long he is still having accidents. We read up in a book that papillions are one of the hardest to train. It most of the time takes up to a year! I hate to keep them apart that long but..who knows. Me and my soft heart don't think very well with my head!

I don't know why I can't put spaces between Linsey and Shana's comments from me. Sorry guys! I know it's really hard to read. Must be the stupid Mr. Bug!! Ouch! It bit me!

I'd say try it out and see how it goes. I think it's a great idea if all goes well. Nothing like snuggling with a favorite dog. By the way, that picture is so sweet.

Cindy. Sometimes you have to force paragraphs. Use the pointy brackets like you would for bolding something, but use p instead of b. The open bracket and close bracket go right next to each other.

I wish my cats would cuddle as well
They are friendly sometimes and like being stroked, but they don't sit on our laps and won't be picked up or hugged.
By the way, what I've discovered about posting is that you need to make sure you didn't accidentally leave a space at the end of a paragrpah or tv.com will just run it on. So you need to make sure that a fullstop is your last character, and delete everything after that

Late on this Cindy but I'd go ahead and see if it works out. Let us know what u decide.