Cutsey Dog Cages

Are they practical? Maybe not. Just recently I went to visit with my aunt. She's a retired school teacher, as stern as anything when she was a teacher, recently widowed. I don't visit her often, mainly because she brings back memories of very dry history classes at school and raps on the knuckles at dinner if I inadvertently picked up something with my fingers!

Now, for her company, she has two tiny dogs -- little white, fluffy things, that run around your ankles and yap. She has also decided that they should live in little castle designed, soft dog cages. They are, or rather were, pink and white, with ribbons hanging off them everywhere. Well, you can imagine what they look like now.

They have been chased, dragged around the living room, chewed on, peed on (yes, it's disgusting!) and look terrible. And all the while this is going on my aunt looks on fondly and laughs at them. Well, she did give a stern no when little Toochy lifted up his leg and peed on the corner of the worst damaged one.

I suggested she invest in some other, more durable type of dog pens for them but she insisted that these were cute, and that they 'loved them to death and she couldn't deprive them of their playthings.' Well, can't say I didn't try!