[DanaC]

I locked him downstairs even without the crate til he was almost a year old.

But he kept making a bid for following me up at night and would go quite reluctantly to his own bed when told.

Overall, I prefer him being able to come upstairs. Though, once he discovered the comfy big bed that was that. He now stays on the bed for about half the night then buggers off for the rest of the time. Fortunately I have a double bed. I am slowly getting him to accept that he can't actually sleep at the pillow end of the bed. He always tries. I go off to have a wash and come back and he's there, head on the pillow looking blissfully comfy. He always gets moved and he always tries it again the next night :P


[eta] actually, about the half the time he's nominally 'on the bed' he's actually mostly on the windowsill (bed pushed right up to the window so he can look out without having to stand up on his back legs, and also to stop the occasional night time accidental rolling off the bed and landing on his back).