Since it’s become so fucking cold, Charlie has become a primarily inside dog. Again. At first this seemed like a really bad, but necessary idea. Surprisingly, it’s been a mostly positive experience for everyone involved. Except for the other night when he managed to get hold of a tube of steroid cream, chewed it up and ingested some of it. (We didn’t know why he was throwing up until we found the tube of ointment the next day.) And then puked on the bedspread. The very nice, expensive bedspread. WHILE WE WERE IN BED. He’s fine now.
Anyway, when we first started keeping Charlie inside again, we had him sleeping on the bed with us so if he woke up to go pee, he’d wake us up and hopefully not pee on us. Which went really well. Now he’s sleeping through the entire night without getting up to pee. It’s heavenly. Now we’re trying to train Charlie not to sleep with us in the bed anymore. We’ve recently gotten him to move to the floor. And by floor, I mean on top of the very nice, very expensive bedspread he puked on that we took off the bed in the middle of the night, wadded up on the floor and made him sleep on.
Anyway, his current sleeping arrangements need to change. Mostly because that comforter is going to the dry cleaners to get a thorough cleaning and Charlie needs his own bed. Behold:
And if you’re wondering if it’s really necessary for such a small dog to have such a big bed, the answer is HELL YES. That little dog you’re looking at somehow manages to grow EXPONENTIALLY in his sleep and somehow takes over 3/4 of the bed. B and I end up huddled on one side of the bed barely staying on the mattress while he rolls around in luxury on the rest of the bed. I figure he’ll fill up his new bed nicely. Oh, and another nice thing about the bed? It’s also got cedar chips inside it so it smells good to boot. It’s like doggie deoderant. Which is kind of fantastic since his natural body odor is not unlike corn chips.
Hahaha!! I think the best things we ever did was crate train our dogs. They LOOOOOOOOVE sleeping in their crates (half the time they put themselves to bed before we even get to it) and we can take them places and never have to worry about them screaming all night because they aren’t used to being in crates. OMG – if they weren’t in crates when we traveled with them to someone else’s house they would drive us insane!!!!
I thought you were going to say that you knit him a sweater!
I’m really glad Felix doesn’t smell like corn chips. Where did the posh doggie bed come from, Felix sorely needs a new one….
This picture makes him appear 1/2 the size he actually is. That must be a HUGE bed!!!
Wee dog. Ginormous bed. LOL
Very posh bed, btw.
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Why do dogs smell like corn chips? Always wondered that…… And I say “corn chips” because I can’t spell Fritoes……See?
Our cat does that magical growing thing at night. I reminds me of those pellets you put in water and they expand to hunormous proportions.
We had a huge bed for our (60 lbs) dog, until it wore out. The most annoying thing was getting it all in the washer. I finally threw the dang thing out and got her a much smaller-fits-in-the-washer bed.