Expanding dogs

[bunn]

I bought two new dog beds today.   After much agonising over online options, I decided to actually take the dogs to choose beds, so that I could check they would fit.  So, I got the beds off the shelf, and I made the dogs sit in the beds to check that they were the right size.  And I swear, in the shop they WERE the right size.

Now we have got home, both beds appear to be rather too small for the dogs for which they were purchased! I conclude that my dogs are actually larger when they are inside my house.    At present, the nice new bed I bought for Rosie is quite empty, and the big squishy bed I bought for Brythen is occupied by a small and enormously smug Bungle cat.   Both dogs are upstairs on their old beds quaking at the sheer horror of being expected to cope with new beds.

Edited: New theory,dogs contract in size overnight, and then expand again during the day: this morning she came straight down and plopped herself into the bed that she protested was unfeasibly tiny yesterday evening. And there is a clear margin of space all around her!

Comments

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Why so quick to blame the dogs? Maybe the dogs are the one immutable constant in an ever-changing universe, and stayed exactly the same, but the beds changed. Perhaps the beds were scared and overwhelmed by being plucked from the safety of a shelf in a shop, and thrust into a scary new home, and went all shy and shrunken, but a night being smugged over by a Bungle restored their confidence, and they swelled.

The whole thing reminds me of Schnitzel Von Krumm's Basketwork, my favourite Hairy Maclary book:

He tried it for size;
there was room for his tum
but it didn't smell friendly
to Schnitzel von Krumm.
The basket was smart
and a much better fit -
was it cosy and comforting?
NO
not a bit.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I now see that you beat me to it.