We have hardwood floors in our house and sometimes you might find a throw rug or an area rug or two. Or you might not. Our floors are in a state of constant change and it tells you a lot about our pack at any given moment. When circumstances allow, we like to have an area rug in the living room, especially in the winter. Our house is over a hundred years old. It's drafty and the floors are cold. But, sometimes, our pack requires that the area rugs gets rolled up and put away for a while. Sometimes we have a puppy that is still in the process of housebreaking and we have some accidents. Other times we have a foster dog that is living in a house for the first time and learning that you have to go outside to take care of business. For quite a while, we had a foster dog that experienced urinary incontinence and who also was a bit of a submissive wetter. It's much easier to grab a roll of paper towels and clean up the hardwood floors than to clean up a carpet.
Well after a year of raising a few puppies in the house, the rug went back down today to help our old guy, Eddy, who just can't get his footing on the hardwood floors. And, we bought him a runner to get from the area rug to the rug in the foyer. It's sort of a landing strip for Eddy. We share our home with the dogs and that can get a bit crazy at times. We joke that our dream home would have concrete floors with a drain in the middle of the room so we could just hose the place down.
But, tonight, Eddy has carpet to protect his old bones and to support his continued mobility. At the moment, I can hear him breathing the deep breaths of a sound sleep on his comfy bed. And, we are grateful that we can make him comfortable yet another day.
Eddy sleeping soundly, as an old guy should. (14 years and two months old)