Monday's pets on furniture

***NOTE: As we are getting alot of entries for the pets on furniture posts, I am (unfortunately) going to start being a bit picky about what entries we use for these posts, starting next week. So here are the basic rules that I implore you to follow if you'd like your pet to be featured here: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of furniture must be clearly visible in the photo, so both pet and furniture takes centre stage. (Think of it more of a photo of a great piece of furniture...and your pet happens to be sitting on it). And second, the photo must be of decent quality. For example, if it's REALLY dark or fuzzy (camera phone) then I may not use it. Hopefully with these rules in place I'll be able to keep up with the entries we are receiving and share some awesome photos that will keep all our readers happy. :) Now back to the show...

"Erin is getting older, coming up to nine years old this fall. And while there are still periods of stir craziness, running around with her sister, there are more moments like these..."
- Nicole

"Although my brother would never do it, I had to send you the link and a picture of his dog Charlie on his furniture. My brother's wife reads the blog religiously so I know she will see them."
- Patty (**OMG check out her brother's website!!!)

"I would love to submit a few photos of my dog, Wrigley! Here he is on our Malm bed from IKEA. The quilt and pillow shams were made by my mother-in-law for our wedding. The second image is really more of a glamor shot, but I love it! Wrigley was snoozing on our bed, so I had to be rude and interrupt him with an impromptu photo shoot!"
- Capree

"The attached picture is of my pug John-John. He couldn't resist the urge of jumping up in the furniture during a photo shoot we had in the office :) I'm so happy he did, I love this shot! It was quite a hit actually, the photograph ended up being published in quite a few german magazines, they seem to like the look of it. The chairs are the IKEA PS model (not available anymore..) and the covers are from Bemz.com, where I work. I'll attach a couple of more shots of my beautiful doggies, they're not ON the furniture in these ones though, but I just love to brag :). Same thing here, they snuck on the photo shoot because of the soft carpet, and then just stayed."
- Sara

"I live in Reykjavik, Iceland, and my boxer Aratan is allowed on the furniture, he is just too cute to resist"
- Guðrún

"Love ur pet pix. These are of my cat Pepsi in various poses. Hope u like em."
- Bo

"It is difficult to choose just one photo of Tigger on the furniture because he is a cat, after all. And what better way to spend the day as a cat than to sleep on the furniture? (Tigger passed in April. We miss him intensely.)"

"here is one more pic of my little man. it was taken the night before he was attacked by wild dogs, the worst night of my life. his biggest admirer, a photographer friend of ours, took the photo. he was such a handsome dude, and i think he knew it."
- Sherry

"here are a couple of pictures of my boo boo radley. the picture of boo on the sofa was initially to show off the pillows a friend had made for me."
- Hossannah

"Couldn't resist sending you a pic of my gorgeous poodle Ella. She's taken a liking to the deck chair we have in the corner that gets lots of warm sunlight from our wall of north-facing windows. She fits just perfectly on the seat, but when our other poodle, Harley, tried to jump up, it was just a bit too much of a squeeze! (he's about 4kgs heavier than Ella)."
- Clare (Fremantle, Western Australia)

Comic shelves
- Oscar

"here's some pictures of Bethania relaxing ..."
- Ricardo and Georgiana (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

"This is Lady, our 3 years old cat that loves the sofa (which cat doesn't?)."
- Giselle (Santa Maria-RS, Brazil)

"My guys love this chair the best -- maybe it's the handknit pillow. Anytime Stewart (the big one) is on the chair, Phinney (the little one) climbs on top of it and him. They can co-habitate there nicely for a while -- 20 minutes or so -- before Stewart goes off for some alone time."
- Rosanne

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- Esther (Taiwan)

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"I send a photo of my sister's dog called Rufus, she will be looking forward to seeing your blog."
- Susanna (from Spain)

"I'm a graphic designer and illustrator from Switzerland. Here you can see my ridiculous attempt to protect my sofa from two fighting kittens. The sofa lost and had to go. But there's so much more important things I can use my money for, like cat food, the vet and cat food! And they can always rest on the bed, two special cat chairs, the balcony and the various cushions. Also we have friendly neighbours with lots of furniture and there must be several women who care for my tiger, he often smells of perfume when he comes home."
- Stefanie

"Felfel is my 11 years old lady cat who's not afraid of skin cancer! She spends hours on that old chair everyday just to get her vitamin D..."
- Julie (from Quebec City)

"Here's my cat on our sofa. Contemplative."
- Karyn

"Knowing how much you enjoy pets on furniture or just pets being pets, I've attached photos of our 2-year old Persian cat, Kitty Bang Bang, helping out with last year's Christmas decor."
- Lady

"For your 'animals on furniture' series, this is Morgan on the couch about to give me stink eye. Morgans are not supposed to be on the couch, but looking at them, how could I make him get down?"
- Holyoke Home

"My name is Monica, and i'm a medical student from Northern Italy. These "pets on furniture" are so sweet, and i can't avoid to add to this beautiful pictures my little Camillo during his favourite activity...you guess!"

- Monica

"Well, after seeing the Frenchies on one of your posts, I had to send you a photo of my Pipi sitting on my bedroom chair!"
- Eileen

"its not really 'pet ON furniture'....more like 'pet IN furniture'...! This is Pudgie, an American Snow Shoe [I think?] my mother saved him from an abusive home when he was just a kitten. Now he's enjoying his golden years sleeping and well basically thinking he's human...he even sits on a chair at the dinner table when we eat...he's totally one of a kind!"
- Stacey

"I enjoy your weekly posts about pets on furniture. Here's another one to add to your collection. This was our Tibetan Mastiff, Tannin, who had full run of our house until she passed away last November. We miss her everyday."
- Sara C. (from California)

"May I add this to share on your "dog-blog"??? The other dogs are sooooo cute & precious, and of course, I think our Belle-girl is too!"
- Linda

"First of all, I love your blog! And especially love the section animals on furniture, so I send you 3 pics of my loved cats, Phill, Dodi and Luma. They love to stay on furniture, Phiil on the terrace chairs, Luma on the "rede" a typical brasilian furniture and Dodi loves when its Christmas time so he can jump and sleep in the decoration boxes."
- Marília Matoso (from Recife-PE, Brazil)

"I'm writing in to just say I love these cute posts of pet on furniture.. nice to know it's not just me who allows my pooch to lounge in style.. although as you can see from the pic of my Doberman Pinscher Skuzzy, it's not like I have any say in it! She loves that Queen Anne Sofa! Perhaps because it's so far the swishest item in my WIP house? teehee"
- Lisa

"I noticed recently Pets on Furniture and have a question...I too have pet's who would rather hang out on the furniture than anyplace else and was wondering if you or your readers have any tips on keeping the smells off the furniture...
Recently, I am temporarily living with a friend and he is complaining about the dog smell. I have discovered fizzion which seems to work wonderfully but would love to hear any other tips to keeping a house poet odor free...."
- Jennifer

Anyone have any advice? And with my 6 cat household I'd love to hear some ideas as I'm sure my house doesn't quite smell as fresh as it could.

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Hi! After enjoying all the pet photos on your blog, I couldn't resist. I had to send you a couple myself. These are my two Frenchies. They think the couch is their bed even though they have dog beds all over the house. And I don't normally let them on the antique (white!) chair but I couldn't resist posing him on it for a photo.
- Alek

Tonight I was getting caught up on all of your fabulous postings and had to write -- I just love your "creatures on furniture" series and thought I'd send you both a few of my pups, Bear and Daisy -- just for fun.
- Myla

I am a 43 years old nurse educator and manager, living with two cats in Istanbul. I used to have an other tom cat who was died last November in his age of 14. I decided not to have a cat at the beginning. I moved my home to the apartment just above my previous one in last July. Meanwhile I was looking at your photos with cats. I told myself I need a cat in my new flat. I was surfing the web side about free pet adoption. I found a nice lady. She is a Van swimming cat. One is blue and other is green. She is not % percent but still, she had two colored eyes. The advertisement about her, says one year old pregnant van cat. I decided to adopt her. In next telephone call, her owner told me she delivered 1 kitten. 2 days later They were in my apartment. Now the kitten is 2,5 months old. By the way I am living a very modest furnished apartment. I am still working on it. I am sending a few photos about my girls first. They were taken my Nokia mobile phone.
- Sibel

Our whippet rufus will come running everytime i take out the camera to photograph something in our apartment, so i have so many pictures of him posing on our furniture. Here are a few - love the blog!
- Mette

Since I love your blog so much, and since you guys love dogs so much I wanted to send you pictures of my adorable dogs in LA! I hope you and your readers love the pictures as much as I do.
- Aimee

I saw your "Monday's pets on furniture" feature and I thought I'd send you a picture of The Mini, a 5 year-old cat with a big attitude. He is the star of my own blog every Tuesday as I publish a special feature called "Mini Mardi" (Mini's Tuesdays). He loves to take dramatic poses on my green velvet wing chair from Bombay (Bombay.ca).
- Martine from Montréal

Every week I see the photos and think that I really need to send some to you! Back in the days when he was allowed on the furniture, Ridley made himself strangely comfortable.
- Nina

Here is our little puppers Iggy (or more formally Iggy Juilius Huggleman) hanging out in his favorite spot on the back of the sofa. I think it makes him feel big.
- Morgan

Because trimming this and stripping this took me the whole freaking weekend, I have SO many things to get done today before I go back to work tomorrow. And this being a holiday and all, I think I will call it a day with this post. Happy labour day!

Monday's pets on furniture

I just saw your post on pets on furniture. Fun pictures! I just snapped this one yesterday so if you like you can use it for the next “pets on furniture” post. This is my 7 year old cat Oliver. As you can see he is right at home on “his” chair.

- Daniel

The attached photo is our English Bulldog Guillo. We’ve got a lovely bamboo bed that, despite it being a king, he pretty much takes over every night. He’s so cute we can’t bring ourselves to move him. ha.

- Susan and Roberto

I always love to see your pet posts! Here is a picture of my best friend-Georgia Belle. She is the world's best cuddler and loves to nap on any piece of furniture. Here she is sitting on the couch cuddling a knit hat.

- Hannah Ryan

Here is my mutt (well one of 3) on my furniture. This is Lulus’ special spot...note, she is such a little poser!

- Anne-Marie

Millie is an Australian currently living in NY (hopefully her Aussieness will swings things in her favour and overcome her less than stylish choice of furniture). If this fails she also does a great glamour pose...

- Lisa

Another photo of one of my herd. This is Mimin, my little princess. She loves to hang out on top of the highest pieces of furniture. This is the armoire in my office. I think she's looking for bugs.

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"Thank you so much for your lovely blog - I read it every day! My dog Molly, on the other hand, spends every day sitting on the furniture, watching for squirrels. This is her favorite pose, on her favorite chair."

- Jessica Sobti

"A few weeks a go you featured my little Lulu in your pets on furniture post so here's an update. Her days on furniture may be limited (not really but I probably should pretend)!"

- Shelly Schramm

"Being a proud parent of two cats an a chug dog, I love your posts of pets on furniture. I decided to send you my own, of my new cat gigi that seems to love to sleep on anything but her cat bed. On top of the tv, the cabinet, the table, even on the decor."

- Cindy

"I really enjoy your blog and thought you might like this photo of my dog Whiskey on a bookshelf in our old apartment."

- Ciara

"Here are our adoptions from German Shepherd Rescue. The sweet cop and the criminal. It's pretty obvious which is which."

- Marla

"attached is a picture of my 5-year-old great pyrenees, berkeley. the tin foil is supposed to keep dogs off furniture. it has always worked, until about 2 weeks ago. as you can see, my house is never clean with a dog like that! but i wouldn't change her for the world."

- rebecca

"Kubrick, he is a 1 year old Scottish terrier, in Washington D.C."

- Kati

"I am a fan of your blog and have desperately held off on sending you a picture (or two) of my dog on my bed. I love your animal features (among everything else) and just had to send you my pictures of Luna. She is a 1 year old Golden Retriever who is always sneaking up on my bed. With a face like hers I just can't say no to her."

- Elizabeth

I'd like to add some of my own that I took over the last few days. The first is my old guy Cheeks, napping on one of the sections of my DIY sofa that is strategically placed under the window so all the cats can perch and watch the stray/neighbourhood cats hanging out on the porch (and is covered in a piece of batik becaus the white covers are SO impratical) .

Next is Lucky (again) who loves to lean on something when he's laying down. Here he's using a freaking pillow on my sofa. UNREAL.

And I took this yesterday while hanging out in the backyard with a few of the cats on their harnesses. This is Felix having a little nap on my falling-apart vintage wicker loveseat.