Hotel for Dogs

 

Not sure how long my fifteen minutes of fame

was on the front page of Etsy -

but it's enough keep the puff my balloon for some time.

With the new year, summer has truly arrived in Sydney. 

That means less time in the stifling hot computer room

and more time in the studio room actually making.

Something about the ending of a year sends you into review.

I dug through the wall of never ending art supplies,

hauled them out, sang happy 10 year old birthday

to some lucky ones, 

stroked a few more fondly

and passed a bucketload on.

The house has become intolerably clean. 

No wading ankle deep in dog hair tumblebunnies,

or discoveries of semi digested dinner in the hallway.

The comforting jingle jingle jingle of dog tags

as the morning scratch and lick begins.

It was all too much.

We are now a hotel for dogs.

 We have become minders for Don't Fret Pet . 
It's a company offering home accommodation 
to dogs whose parents go on holiday. 

It beats a cage in a boarding kennel 
and the prices are competitive.

 Our Inner West kennel has 

• a private door leading to the shady and grassy back play area. No holding it in waiting for the humans to wake up
• Water bubbler for fresh water to attack, (doubles as a water feature for humans.)
• Upstairs bed with toys
• Downstairs bed with other toys
• Front yard bed with view
• Backyard bed that humans call their day bed, but is really a higher up bed.

• Couch privileges even if you are a great Dane and take up half of it.
• Designer grass patch to poop on
• Peep holes in the fence to watch other dogs walk past and bark at them.
• Doggy Day spa around the corner
• Doggy companionship with optional romance package.

So far only three guests,

but the joy is great. 

One guest took up the romance package,

falling in love with studly dog next door. 

They rumbled and played the whole time and 

poor old studly dog howled when she went home.

It's win win here for two lonely dog parents, 

whose house is too big and clean 

but who cant  bear to think of a permanent replacement. 

(As if there could ever be one.)

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