I HATE sleeping with pets. It does not matter how
sweet they are, they wake me up. I particularly
do not like a dog or a cat plastering themselves
against my naked body. I find it easy to imagine
*things* crawling off them onto me~!
Well for myself I cannot imagine sleeping on my bed without my cat cause she's also my alarm clock and as well my night guardian. I say this as a deaf person, and I read too many stories where families were saved by their pets when the house was in the danger (by fire etc) who were sleeping in the same room as the family. Think about it.
Your fear of the things that crawl on the skin is so deep that you have to deal with. You do have things that crawl on your skin and it's no different for the pets as well. Think also of the bedbugs. As well there's beneficial bacteria, there's also beneficial bugs. Think about it. I know I'm going off-topic here from the topic of the thread. Just food for thought.