Dog beds
My second dog loved dog beds. We still had our first dog at the time, but my second dog liked his privacy. The first dog wanted to snuggle with him, since she wasn’t allowed to snuggle with humans after I moved out of the house (my parents and sisters just were not as willing as I once was to open their beds up to the large body of an extremely friendly and eager yellow Labrador Retriever), and he did not want to snuggle back. Having his own dog bed helped him achieve some sort of privacy in the night. He could keep the other dog out and claim the space as his own.
He had a problem, though. During the day, while he was awake, he was perfectly house trained, a neat, clean little angel of a dog. While he was sleeping, though, he unfortunately just could not control his bladder or (sometimes, alas) his bowels.
The first of the dog beds we had for him was, again, that traditional round kind with raised edges. The fluffy inside was lined with fake wool. He loved that bed and would snuggle up in it every night with a contented sigh of loner’s relief. But half the time everyone else in the house would wake up in the morning wrinkling their noses at the smell that had infused his dog bed over night. And it wasn’t easy to get rid of, either. Febreeze is what they started with, but they soon moved to tougher sprays, like Lysol to try and kill germs and smell. The dog bed was too big, stiff and bulky to dump into the washing machine, so it became a real problem.
My parents finally threw it away and got the dog a new bed, one the match the first dog’s variety of bed for dogs. It was like a big square pillow, one that was relatively easy to clean, because it would fit in the washing machine. Our second dog didn’t sleep for days. He roamed around the house every time he was sleepy looking for his old bed. He couldn’t get comfortable in the new one.
In fact, he never did. When he finally tired of looking for the old bed, he succumbed, and climbed into bed with our first dog. And then they were both happy, even when they both woke up smelly.