I think are dog is scared of the dark

Amy Ditka, and I are living in a small house in a small town. I like our house but there are some not so good things about it like no closets and no back door. The bedrooms are nice size considering we don't have a roommate and can use the other room for storage the other room is smaller so we sleep in the bigger room although it has the only closet in the whole house so it is like a changing room for Amy. I don't get to hang up any of my stuff.

This last weekend we thought our 1 year and 3 month old baby,who's actually a 100 pound black Lab was ready to make the big step of not sleeping in his cage and sleeping on the $50 bed that we bought him. Should be easy we thought even though going into this i knew dogs get attatched to their cage, because it gives them a safe feeling. We figured why would our dog not like sleeping on are floor? Plus it would give our room more space maybe we could use the door that leads right into the bathroom even though all you have to do is take 2 more steps and you are in through the other door. Plus no room looks that nice when you have a huge cage taking up %15 of the room.

The first night we knew there was going to be problems and after about 15 minutes of the dog walking around whining like a little baby, us telling him to go to bed, and him getting stuck on the side of the bed, because we pushed it closer to the wall and his cage used to be there. He could not turn around but what our little Ditka could do is jump right up on the bed and before i could say anything to him he was curled up in a tight ball in between my legs snoring louder then i have ever heard any human. At this point it was 12:30 and i thought... no use in fighting it we will just work on it the next night. That night comes and before i know it... dog in bed...with us. I don't know what to do. Amy and I are not sleeping, and the little sleep we do get it is interrupted by our dog snoring while his feet end up in our backs. So tonight the cage is going back up and we are going to try and see what he is going to do if we leave the doors open. Hopefully he will be ok with this and we can get 8 hours of on and off sleep tonight.

i will keep you posted.