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Well, now that he's full-size, he has no trouble whatsoever getting up there. In fact, I'm sure he's made himself quite comfortable on my half of the bed while I've been gone, and it will take a bit of training to get him to return to his designated spot at the bottom of the bed.
Letting him sleep on our bed wasn't really a conscious choice.. at first we kept him in the kennel during nights, mainly to housebreak him, and during the day we wouldn't let him in the bed. He looked so pitiful though, standing on his hind legs with his little puppy head peeking over the top with a look that said "why can't I be on the big fun bed too, guys?"
He got less and less happy with the kennel at nights, often waking us up in the middle of the night several times with his whimpering. So we moved the kennel into the basement, figuring if he didn't see us maybe he'd be better about the kennel. Big mistake number one. I put him in the kennel for the night, but every time I would try to leave he would start carrying on at the top of his lungs. I even waited next to the kennel until I thought he was asleep, but that didn't work.
It was late, and I didn't feel like hauling the kennel back upstairs next to us. So I figured he could sleep in our bed, but just this once. Ha! Second big mistake. He would have absolutely no more going into the kennel at night after he saw how much fun it was in the Big Bed with Mommy and Daddy. Luckily, he was mostly housebroken at this point, so we relented and let him have his way (not like we had a choice in the matter, really).
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