I got two puppies in August. I named them Ruby and Pearl. They are the mongrel offspring of my brother's latest dog, who is herself one of the ugliest dogs I have ever seen. Someone found her as a stray and somehow, Billy C got bamboozled into adopting it. Turned out she was pregnant to boot.
For mutts, they are quite beautiful. If I can get a picture of them where they don't jump up and try to eat the camera lens, I'll post them.
Anyway, when I moved into this house, the dog run out in back had an old dilapidated dog house, ripe with termites and other vermin. Gloria wouldn't go near it, but Joey would. It was so unsightly that I dismantled it (actually, it just sort of collpapsed when I touched it) and got one of those Dogloo things. Neither dog ever went inside it that I know of. It didn't matter if it rained, if the wind was blowing, or it was cold outside. Whenever I put a mattress in it, they would pull it out and sleep outside the Dogloo.
Roscoe, Gloria's replacement, would go inside either.
When I brought Ruby and Pearl home, I cleaned out the dog run and tried to give it some feng shui. I cleaned out the Dogloo and put in a mattress. At first, they'd go inside once in awhile. But, like their predecessors, they'd take the mattress out and sleep outside.
There was this old plastic garbage can on wheels that I got before the city started providing receptacles for the various grades of garbage. It's been sitting in my back yard for the past years--only being used when I had extra garbage. Ruby and Pearl knocked it over one day and discovered that it made a great doggie fort. They would use it to play hide-and-seek, king of the mountain, and some doggie games for which I don't know the rules.
The morning after the rain last week, I went outside and found that, instead of using the Dogloo for shelter, Pearl had used the garbage can. Then I thought, hey, it's big, durable, and the wheels make it easy to move around--the perfect dog house.
So I cleaned the thing out and put it right next to the Dogloo. They love it.
The only problem is that, when they are playing king of the mountain, the think makes a racket like a cannon every time one of them jumps on top of it.
I hope they don't play at night.
3 comments:
Squee! A new post!
Does the garbage can shelter them from the rain?
Wanna sell your Dogloo?
I need to figure out some way to create a lip thingy over the opening, as the tilt of the garbloo opens the top to rain by a nano-inch.
No, I'm keeping the dogloo until I see how big they get, just in case one of them has to move out of the garbloo.
I'm sorry. My mind went away when you said, "I need to figure out some way to create a lip thingy over the opening..." Not because it can so easily be turned into something dirty, but because you actually talked about making something.
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