Dogs and sofas and dogs and sofas - eviltoast

Is your dog allowed in your sofa? How do you keep it clean? Washable covers? Looking for ideas and tips. 🐾🐾

  • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 days ago

    We live at a beach; there’s sand everywhere - it’s unavoidable.
    This coverage involves 2 fitted sheets, a couple towels, and a flannel sheet. Whatever works. It gets vacuumed almost daily, and changed out weekly.

  • Plum@lemmy.world
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    Thrifted blankets that match your sensibilities over the main couch, or the dog portions of the couch.

    He has his own ikea loveseat as his bed. I tuck in a blanket around the seat cover and swap it out when it smells like dog.

    We have a significant number of dog blankets here.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    I cannot imagine forbidding my animals from using the furniture, tbh. So yes, my dog is allowed on the sofa and bed. Generally the dog stays on a blanket on the sofa to contain the majority of fur. Otherwise, sticky rollers and vacuums.

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    14 days ago

    Bought a couch cover on Amazon which I draped over the couch. Both cover and couch are gray but not matching gray

  • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world
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    Yes I had let my previous 2 dogs on my sofa and also let my current one on there.

    I have a leather couch and sometimes I will put twin sized fitted sheets over sections of the cushions and then change those out periodically.

    I used to have a standard fabric couch and it was a gross nightmare with pets. I highly recommend getting a leather sofa if you don’t already have one if you’re gonna go down this path. I know that’s prob not possible for many but that was a HUGE game changer for me and I will never go back to a fabric couch as a pet owner.

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    12 days ago

    I bought a king sized blanket that I liked and I cover it with that. I wouldn’t care if the sofa fabric was removable but it’s attached on this one. My boys are mud magnets.

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    14 days ago

    She’s allowed on the furniture and bed, but I do keep my spot on the couch covered with pillows if I’m not using is.

    Because I need one couch cushion that isn’t covered in hair.

  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
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    14 days ago

    Yes, both our dogs are allowed on the sofa. We put down blankets if they’re wet/muddy after the park. Otherwise we just Chom chom it every so often and use a Green machine for stains.

    For reference we have one border collie pit mix with a single smooth coat, and one heeler border collie mix with a rough double coat.

    The heeler mix is our big shedder and the biggest reason we bought a Roomba.