ANOTHER crate. Another crazy story.

Well.  No worries about the FG escaping from the soft sided hacksaw-repaired crate.  Are ya ready for this - my human bought ANOTHER hard-sided crate to take to the show.  Which will fit alongside a crate that is currently in the vehicle. It's hard to believe that with all the old crates in the dog crate graveyard that she could not find 2 crates to fit in the vehicle.   Which reminds me that  somehow I forgot to tell you about Ludwig....

 You all remember Harold, our trusty Subaru who had like a gazillion miles on him. Well in the Fall, Harold went to live somewhere else.  I hope wherever he went, they had a dog.  Anyway, for a number of reasons, my human decided to "downsize" our vehicle.  I understand as people get older, like my human (cough cough), downsizing is a common occurrence.  So she bought a smaller vehicle - a VW Golf.  His name is Ludwig.  I named him.  So Ludwig has taken each of us to the Vet and to classes and even to the pet store.  And all three of us have been in Ludwig at the same time - with the FG riding in a crate and us PONs riding shotgun.  Well not EXACTLY shotgun.  But behind the FG in his crate.  It's kind of amazing what one can fit in a smaller vehicle.

But after my human's lightning bolt realization that the soft sided hacksaw-repaired crate might not work with the FG for the show, she decided she should just get another crate because she needed another one that would fit in Ludwig.  So she went to the pet store and politely asked a store employee if she could "try" a particular crate in Ludwig.   The nice young man happily agreed and he helped my human load the "unassembled" crate inside Ludwig.  It was a perfect fit.

So to make a very long story a BIT shorter my human got home and tried to assemble the crate.  Now keep in mind that this woman has put together MANY, MANY crates in her life.  INCLUDING the pony-sized version in the dining room.  But for SOME reason the NEW crate required more than one person to put it together.  I know you are shaking your head - but trust me, we listened to much moaning and groaning and crashing in the garage while she tried to "slide" the weird top piece of the crate into the bottom part.  And then she needed to screw in the final supports.  All I know is that a hammer came out - for something that needed to be screwed in.  One thing for sure - that crate will never, ever, EVER come apart.

So then she goes to put the fully assembled crate in Ludwig.  Like the guy from the store did.  And SOMEHOW, the crate has grown.  Let's just say that after one hour of assembly, my human MADE the new crate fit in Ludwig.

So NOW, at the show, the FG will use the NEW crate and will ride to the show site in the OTHER crate.  Does ANY of this make sense?! If you're wondering why the FG couldn't just use the crate from the vehicle at the show, it would have meant lugging the crate in and out every time he went to the show - which will be three times this weekend.  So THAT would be a bit much - keep in mind these crates are big enough for the FG.  I guess the bottom line - we have yet another crate that will some day end up in the dog crate graveyard - BUT we can all rest easily that the FG will NOT chew his way out of the soft sided crate while at the show.

Phew.  So tell me again why dog shows are so much fun?! AND how humans are smarter than canines...