luxury houses for dogs

Stumbling around the Net, I came across these wonderful doghouses. Because I'm so into dollshouses and miniatures, I fell in love with them immediately, but I reckon Penny would hate them, because most of them involve living outside the main house (I think).

We do actually have a nice strong, weather-proof doghouse on our back patio, but have never once convinced Penny to set foot in it, except to sniff for rats. (They used to hide under the doghouse to eat the fruit they had snaffled from our trees, until Penny alerted us to their hiding place.)

There is one indoor house in the list of ten amazing residences, the TownHaus.

I once blogged about this house, way back in prehistory.

the dog crate comes in handy for the urinating visitor

Today I was excited to think of a use for the large crate I wrote about on 24th September - the over-large one I bought by mistake and couldn't return because we broke one of the handles struggling to open it.

Scruffy, the timid dog who lost his best mate a while ago, has taken to urinating inside our house whenever he visits, so we decided he would have to stay outside unless he was under our watchful eye. But today was quite hot and we were worried about him, as he has a thick coat.

And then I had an inspiration! I lugged in the crate and tried to entice him in it with a couple of treats, but he was too wary to enter. So I lifted him in, fed him some liver treats - and he settled down.

At first he wasn't too sure about it.



Then he seemed to settle, though from the look of his ears he wasn't quite happy. (But he tends to be on edge a fair bit of the time, I must admit.)



Penny wondered what a visitor was doing, sitting in her nice crate and being fed treats (especially as she wasn't getting the treats, due to the question of whether she is overweight).