Saturday Dose of Cute: Hostile Takeover (of the Best Pet Purchase Ever)

Beagle Bert loves his Coolaroo indoor/outdoor elevated dog bed.

Back in July we decided to buy Bert a Coolaroo bed for his first birthday, after seeing them on a dog days of summer amazon ad. I'd never heard of Coolaroos, but there were over 500 rave reviews, along with dozens of seriously cute photos of happy dogs laying on theirs. Well, you can add Bert to that list of comfortable customers! He tried to climb on his (which is cadet blue—they come in four colors) before Joe even had it fully assembled.

This is seriously the best pet purchase we've ever made—with the Cozy Cottage Dog Houses coming in second. (We've had one Cozy Cottage over a dozen years, and it still looks like new.)

More photos below. . .

We have Bert's Coolaroo in the kitchen of the new house, tucked under the 7-foot wide (currently unused) deck oven so it's like a cozy fort. Bert sleeps on it every night and races over to it each time he comes in the house. That pillowcase is full of cedar shavings made when Joe planed a bunch of cedar boards cut from our property to make the ceilings of our new closets.

The elevated cot style keeps him off the cold floor in winter, and the circulating air keeps him cooler in summer. The special breathable fabric, which you clean by just spraying with the hose, also resists odors, moisture, fading, mildew, mold, and flea and insect infestation.

Even though it's big enough to hold a German Shepherd or a Rottweiler, Bert is very glad we went ahead and bought him a size large—because apparently this state-of-the-art material is not resistant to cat invasions.

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