I know, this is another impossibly cute Dachshund photo. But the point of this post is not to showcase another impossibly cute Dachshund, but rather to highlight his expensive and fancy bed. Yes, a $5.99 plastic laundry basket.
We discovered a while ago that the new favorite sleeping spot in the house was a laundry basket next to the washing machine — and whether it had dirty clothes in it or not, they didn't care. We would come through the back door into the laundry room and invariably find a dog sleeping in the laundry basket. So we'd pick up the dog, pull the dirty laundry out and place it temporarily on the floor, put some clean bedding back in the basket, and replace said dog. And it could be any of the dogs — they all decided this was the best bed in the house.
Doing the repeated laundry swap-outs got very old very fast, of course. Rather than swim against the tide, we bought a couple more of these cheap laundry baskets, filled them with fleece blankets that our friend Margaret N. in Seattle sends us, and distributed them in strategic locations.
When I walked into the house on a recent evening, there was Dexter poking his head out of the basket in the dining room. He also thinks that this is a great spot to hide out in before we have our dinner, because somehow we might not notice him buried in the bedding … and then he won't get placed on the other side of the Barbarian's Gate. Thus he can pop out in time to pester us at the dining table. Dexter T. Dickens indeed.
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