crazychicknlady | Doggie Door? (Reply)

It's now warm enough for Pete to swim in his water dish again. We use a plastic child's sand table filled with water for the dogs' water bowl. Pete likes to climb in, lay down, then drink to cool himself off (see picture below).

I used to want a doggie door for our dogs. At our old house, with our first dog (Dusty) we had a doggie door. Other than her occasionally using it to sneak baby toys outside to hide them under the porch, this set up worked very well for us. When we moved to our current house, we were faced with a very nice back door that had glass in it. While convenient for viewing the back yard, there was no easy way to put a doggie door in.

When we started looking for a new place to live, the girls (particularly S) put in the request to either find a place with a doggie door or have Daddy install one when we moved in. This was agreed to.

Then we got Pete.

Water dog has made it abundantly clear that if he had access to a doggie door he would use that opportunity to drench the entire inside of the house, including any couch or bed he could sneak his way onto. The request for a doggie door has long since been withdrawn by the children.