Basket Cases

Let us clarify that title.  

If you're thinking that we're finally ready to admit that we are a bunch of basket cases here, well, no, we're not ready to admit that yet.  

Basket as in laundry basket.

I've seen pictures of dogs lounging in laundry baskets but haven't seen it in our house until about a week ago.  Forest, for some reason, decided that the basket of laundry was a good place to lay with a bone. (The basket was already falling apart. Why do I never remember to put laundry basket on the list when I go shopping?)

Blind puppy Breeze was interested in this new place to lay and the fact that Forest had something that maybe she might want. She never climbed in, I think she realized she's too big.  Later, Breeze "buried" an antler in the laundry and then "dug" it up and repeated this a few times. 

Then deaf Azule decided to try it, perhaps thinking it was a good spot to keep an eye on the cats.

Blind and partially deaf Brook tried it out and liked it.

Then Gerrard "the wonder kitty" decided to see what all the fuss was about.

The most interesting thing to me was that blind Brook climbed in and lay there.  She obviously wasn't copying what she saw!

As for the others, Hiker prefers her crate over anywhere else now that it's winter.  Bill would never lay in a laundry basket, that's just too different and Callie was lounging on her princess sleeping bag, wondering what the heck those silly young ones were doing.

So now I am debating whether or not to take a basket which has seen better days and make it into yet another dog bed for the kitchen.  So what if it looks like we always have a basket of laundry in the kitchen, the dogs will like it.  

It's all about them.