Wow, great prices. I think that is a great idea to pad around your bed. As badly as my knees hurt when I just jump off the deck, I wonder how hard it is on animals when they get older.

LOL there is not enough room in our bed for us and the animals. the cats sneak in once in awhile down by my feet. I do keep a collection of throw rugs for the dogs to sleep on. Sounds like you had a great shopping day. Will you be moving into your new home soon?

I think it is very hard on my girl. Bless her little furry heart! Sometimes she does fine and other times she lands rather hard. That bothers me and I've started to just leave her off of the bed when I go somewhere. She doesn't try to jump up anymore (that I've seen).

I so worry about her hurting a hip or leg. She is very, very boney. I could count her ribs just by looking at her... no meat on her bones anymore. She eats a lot tho... just old and frail.

Sometimes I just go out into the kitchen, or to the bathroom or out to feed puppy while she is sound asleep but she evidently wakes up after i've left the room and comes looking for me.

Up to this point i've used my mattress pad (it was brand new - not any more) and my good comforter. They both need cleaned for the winter - and put back on my bed!

shades - as soon as I get steps that girl can go up and down on. I hope it's in the next few wks. I'm working on them...

It isn't really ready for anyone to live in it but it has a bed and tv, lights, running water and heat.

decent steps will make it doable!

Don't you love when you get to Gw and find just what you need at a great price?

It's sad to see our faithful friends get older and slow down, especially when they came to us as playful puppies with boundless energy. Your fur-babies are lucky to have you, steph!

'came to us as playful puppies with boundless energy'

yep, my new puppy sure did. I must have been nuts the day I went to get her - lol! Thinking a pup was what I needed. She is sooo energetic! The little stinker could play 'catch' all day long - i get exhausted. But she sure is cute - and silly.

thx mama g.

I went to my local thrift store to try to find a cat food bowl. There was nothing under $2 so your $.30 is terrific!

Oh and I think the cat marked the garage somewhere. Probably to get even for not being allowed to go roaming last night. But with coyotes and bobcats here, I just can't let him out. I guess it's the shed for him from now on.

were those bowls fine china! geeze! I've seen bowls similar to what I bought in the local Walgreens for about 1.00.

The last real dog dishes I bought are a resin. over the yrs I've noticed that the resin is porous. That bothered me. Then puppy ate the lip away from one of those - that's when I decided no more using those and started looking at W when in there. I'm glad now that I didn't find any I liked - now I'd be mad at me for paying 8.00 a bowl! I wanted something that could go in the dw (hopefully I'll have one hooked up soon). While at GW I just decided to take a look to see what they had that could be used for the dogs. They had a good number of different bowls (cereal size) for .30 - .50. At that price I wasn't real particular about what they looked like/color - lol!

Our dogs chewed on the plastic pans too. We liked the pans because they hooked through the fence panels and made it harder for fire ants to get to them.

put the dog dish inside of a shallow pan of water - like a pie or cake pan. even one of those sq 9x 9 pans.

I've done that too. For the cat I even glued a food bowl to the center of a pie pan so he can't scoot it across the pie pan to the edge so the ants can get on. It works great except he's a messy eater and drops food into the moat.

But the dogs pushed their dish around a lot and tipped them over. It was easier to have one that hung on the fence. But now we don't have any dogs, so I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

marti - you are so handy if you get another dog I'm sure you can make one to fit on the fence!