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Congrats on conquering your dog-house-buying-guilt and making the decision to provide your pup with a pad to call his very own. Look excited because now it’s time to do some dog house-buying research!
Buying a dog house isn’t as easy as it used to be. These days you have options. You know how simple tasks like buying a television or [gasp] a VCR have over the years become unnecessarily complicated, complete with more options than a person could ever have preferences? Yeah. Well, welcome to the world of dog houses. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
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When you bring a new puppy into your home, you’ve essentially just given birth. We hope it wasn’t too painful. Because it’s about to be.
Once that new bundle enters your home, he will turn it absolutely upside down. If you have other children (canine or otherwise), you’ve already lived through this. You know that there will suddenly be a mess a questions that need answers. For example, how will this new addition fit into your family’s life? Where will he sleep? Who is going to be his major caretaker? These are all very important things to ask, but perhaps the most important question of all is, what the heck do we call him?
It’s time to put on your thinking caps, Friends.
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Fine, you should have taken care of this obstacle before setting eyes on your pad of perfection, but you didn’t. And now you’re sitting there all red-eyed and pathetic because you have to make a choice: your home or your dog.
Forget that. There’s no way you’re giving up your stellar apartment. The one with the fireplace, high ceilings, and a kitchen that you’re way too stoked about considering you can’t even boil a pot of water successfully. And you’re definitely not giving up your dog. Not your beloved puppy who has been by your side through the good times and the bad. The late nights and the early mornings. The breakups and the makeups. You will find a way for them to coexist, regardless of the cost.
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For someone who loves their dog, buying a dog house can often make you feel like a cold-hearted failure.
Like you’re betraying your vow to love, honor and obey your puppy (or was that your husband?) and banish your dog into the wild of your backyard.
Or even worse — out of your bed and into a plastic crate. The horror! You love your dog. He should live with you. Your bed is his bed, right?
Yeah. It may be time to get a grip and get over that Catholic-sized sense of guilt you’re holding onto. Come with us into the light, we promise it’ll be okay.
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You love your dog. I understand. I love my dog, too. However, I have to be honest, I love him a little less when I have to travel with him.
I know. It’s harsh and I would never say it to his cute little puppy dog face, but traveling with your dog makes everything more difficult and more stressful. In my years of puppy raising and body schlepping, I’ve found that the best way to ensure that “man’s best friend” remains your best friend is not to take him with you when you go on the road.
If you can’t bear the thought of boarding your dog due to threat of germs, foul treatment or gangs of canine low lives, you may want to consider services like PetWatchClub that will help you to find someone trustworthy to watch your dog while you’re out of town. This, of course, assumes you have no friends of your own to do it for you.
I’m not judging.
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