Thursday, October 2, 2008

Minerva's New House - by Andy

So Minerva's new house has been finished for some time now. Matt helped me move it in place about 2 or 3 weeks ago. The last touch will be the little name plate over the door labeling it as Minerva's, but that will be a ways out. The roof needed a little modification to fit, but nothing too major. I'm surprised how well it matches the house and Minerva, as expected, completely ignores it. She'll go in it just fine when we tell her to, but we haven't seen any evidence of her going in on her own. We'll just need to work on that.... At any rate, here are some pics of the final construction.

Her house in it's new location. That's not HER air conditioner, no matter how much she wants it to be.


The interior. The foyer is on the right, carpeted with a piece of office carpet from work (yes, that's the carpet they make us live with at work). Her room is on the left, with her "kitty-cat bed." She's even got pink stripes for her little slumber party room.


It's hard to see it, but her little face is in that window somewhere... Proof that she's actually using it.


And finally , her using the door. As proof that I didn't just photoshop her face into the last picture. She's actually quite fluent at going in and out of her little door.

Thanks for reading,

Andy

6 comments:

Katie said...

She will use that house all right when I lock her outside and it's raining. mwahahahahaha

Tales of Tiffany said...

this is soooo cuuuuute. i hope she is very happy in her new home.

Julio said...

I am much impressed with the paint job on the inside, I see the house has no plumbing though, a major no no in building code, even in Oregon where people still use out houses. I will overlook this flaw and not report it but mind you, if I was a building inspector I might not do anything about it anyway. Has minerva mentioned anything about getting internet in there? I feel she can do without but the she will cave in the end. we all do...hhmmmm internet....

Matt and Sydney said...

Ok.. so i thought Matts dog house for our two was pretty spectacular.. but you really outdid us.. lol.. Love the dog house...

Katie said...

Julio, we have wireless Internet so Minerva can just log on to our router. Also she has a BarkBerry, so she just uses that when she needs to.

Julio said...

Barkberry? Is that anything like a Crackberry? I assume she no longer pays attention to anyone of you unless you send her a text and she constantly bumps into walls, polls, other dogs, parked cars, and the like because she is always on the crack...I mean barkberry. Oh wow, never realized your social dog would turn so mainstream after moving to Oregon. Then again, Oregoneans are Mainstream to the MAX