PILLOW WARS ON 11-12-13

There’s trouble in the dog pillow department. The pretty fluffy new top I stitched to the used Kirkland pillow didn’t last a day. Naturally, the humans didn’t see the damage being done, and the dogs aren’t talking. In fact, they act as if nothing happened -- as if that gaping hole was no big deal. But we humans were troubled, so Mike flipped the pillow over, and we determined that the canines have more respect for canvas.

Over the last week, though, sharing a pillow hasn’t gone well. If Nellie gets there first, Bess will squeeze on and they seem to readjust comfortably. But if Bess gets there first – and sorta takes her half out of the middle – then Nellie refuses to insist on a place. Perhaps she doesn’t know how, though she knows well enough how to find her way onto my lap!

In the kennel, Nellie and Bess still share the dogloo, but in her spare time Bess has also obliterated the pillow Mike put in there for their comfort.

So – yesterday we tackled dog pillows. Mike brought in one of the Walmart pillows for which I made cases. At first neither dog was interested. Then Nellie gave it a try.

Meanwhile, Mike decided the pillow in the dogloo had to go, but he was afraid that Bess would just chew up the next pillow as well. So he fashioned a barrier for the door and then put wood shavings in there. Sounds easy doesn’t it? It took several hours.

Mid-day, we took a break from arranging canine comfort. Geocachers thrive of numeric events, so yesterday being 11-12-13, it was necessary to find a cache. The trouble was that we had no local caches left to log except for those Mike had been unable to find or that other cachers reported as difficult.

So, we left Nellie in the house to nap and took Bess with us, finally growing leery of what she might chew up in our absence. Mike was still working on the kennel and leaving her in there was not an option.

Long story short, we didn’t find the first two caches but I found the third one – so Mike was able to log a cache for 11-12-13.

Now that Nellie had accepted the new pillow, Mike removed the old Kirkland pillow from the living room and brought in the second recovered Walmart pillow.

Now each dog has her own pillow – and naturally this is a concept they understand and appreciate. KW