{"id":5933,"date":"2010-09-16T19:12:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T01:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:48:22","slug":"karls-new-bed-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/09\/karls-new-bed-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl’s new bed, cont’d."},"content":{"rendered":"

I ordered Karl a new dog bed. He has several dog beds…one is an outdoor bed that he uses only in the winter….preferring the grass or sidewalk when it is warm.<\/p>\n

He has a dog bed at the foot of my bed. He uses that sometimes – mostly in the winter…preferring the hardwood floor in the closet. And yes, I’ve tried all sorts of things in the closet, thinking that wood is pretty darn hard.<\/p>\n

During the day he often sleeps on the hardwood in a corner of the living room behind one of the big leather chairs. <\/p>\n

As an older dog, I thought maybe more cushioning might be of interest and I thought my best shot at getting him to use a new bed in the living room would be as it gets cooler.<\/p>\n

Enter a large, memory foam bed with bolster.<\/p>\n

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I plopped it behind my chair and threw a toy on it. The thought here is that if Karl walks on the bed and finds it is not threatening, maybe he’ll lie down on it and LOVE it.<\/p>\n

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These things don’t always work on the first try.<\/p>\n

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Bob likes the new bed. I had high hopes that maybe a bit of sibling rivalry would kick in and Karl would want what Bob had. I can’t claim credit for getting Bob to go on the new bed – he decided for himself. Now, if I had WANTED him to get on the bed…<\/p>\n

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A bit of progress! On the bed, lying down, playing with the toy! Maybe this will work.<\/p>\n

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Maybe not…<\/p>\n

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I ordered Karl a new dog bed. He has several dog beds…one is an outdoor bed that he uses only in the winter….preferring the grass or sidewalk when it is warm. He has a dog bed at the foot of my bed. He uses that sometimes – mostly in the winter…preferring the hardwood floor in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21743,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/21743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}