{"id":9509,"date":"2026-03-26T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:27:55","slug":"bad-news-your-pets-may-be-ruining-your-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=9509","title":{"rendered":"Bad news: Your pets may be ruining your sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Many people enjoy sleeping with their pets. Who wouldn\u2019t? After a hard day of work, cuddling up with a cute animal that shows you unconditional love is just the thing many people need.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But sadly, after digging into a newly released study, they may start to think twice before letting their furry friends into bed at night. The Conversation<\/a> recently published an article highlighting the major findings of a study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine that examined the pros and cons of having pets sleep in bed with them\u2014something that 46% of respondents do. Though the research suggests that sleeping with your pet in bed may have psychological benefits, it may actually have a negative effect on your sleep quality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSleeping with a pet, particularly one with whom we have a close bond, may reduce this sense of vulnerability while enhancing a sense of safety,\u201d the publication writes. However, \u201cResearch suggests that even when pet guardians report better sleep, physiological measures often show more fragmented sleep when they share the bed with their pets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The writer, Renata Roma, a researcher at the University of Saskatchewan specializing in human-animal interactions, continues: \u201cIn one study, researchers used a wristwatch-like device to measure people\u2019s movement during the night while they slept with their pets. They found that even when people felt they slept well, their sleep tended to be more disrupted. In some cases, these disruptions were related to the pet\u2019s movements during the night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This may be due to their increased sensitivity to \u201cexternal stimuli,\u201d such as noises from outside throughout the night, especially among those who sleep with dogs, as those respondents reported being more disrupted in their sleep than cat owners\u2014though the results for the latter are still mixed.<\/p>\n

But owners are not the only ones not getting the best sleep. The animals are being affected as well. \u201cCo-sleeping with a pet, therefore, may affect both the person\u2019s sleep and the pet\u2019s sleep,\u201d Roma writes.<\/p>\n

People who get a consistent amount of lower-quality sleep can have a negative impact on different parts of their mental and emotional well-being, the study reports. \u201cThis may appear as lower tolerance for frustration or a reduced ability to manage emotionally challenging situations,\u201d The Conversation says. \u201cFatigue, depressed mood, difficulty focusing, and a range of other symptoms may also be linked to poor sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Many people enjoy sleeping with their pets. Who wouldn\u2019t? After a hard day of work, cuddling up with a cute animal that shows you unconditional love is just the thing many people need. But sadly, after digging into a newly released study, they may start to think twice before letting their furry friends into bed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brand-spotlights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}