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My dog likes to feel enclosed and secure. This would not do the job.

a fish tank for fido.

Sorry, but this reminds me of an aquarium.

Um, healthyhome's comment wasn't there when I was posting my comment...

My dog doesn't need a dog house. When he's outside he shades underneath the bar. I don't think this would work for him though. When he gets stared at he assumes you want attention so he'd never stay in there.

I thought it was cool, didn't look to see how pricey it was. I liked it because it looks like a pretty piece of furniture, it looks like something you could or might buy even if you didn't have a dog. I just pretty much hate most things that make it obvious you have you had to buy special things to accommodate your pet, things that don't quite match anyway or seem outrageous, so yeah. I would live in it if it were my house. Downside: probably hard to keep it clean. The inside would be grubby and highly obvious. The reason we all mostly like walls on our houses.

For that price, I hope it comes with someone to wipe off the drool and nose prints.

are they insane? how the heck is the inside EVER going to be clean? also, not cozy, not private, pretty much not a dog house, in any way, other than that it's maybe roughly the size of some dogs.

totally impractical but so cool looking.

also, dogs can't see stationary objects very well, much less TRANSPARENT stationary objects. it's gonna confuse the heck out of them.

Dogs like caves.

You know what they say, dogs who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones ... or something. This is a big ol' NOT.

Dogs would hate this. The whole point of a doghouse is to give the dog a quiet, dark, safe, cool-in-the-summer/warm-in-the-winter place to chill out. Dogs would not feel safe in this.

Ditto all the aquarium/drool/clean/cost posts...

WHy does a dog need a carport? 8^)


Just curious.

Ditto on carlene/erica's posts re: the hair and noseprints. I can see my cats getting into it. "You can see me but you can't get me!" But I think the mesh tote bag I let them play with does the job for so much less.

Dogs like their dog houses because they feel safe and enclosed, not exposed. A dog doesn't want a house with a view. It defeats the purpose.

Not designed with dogs in mind.
The website also features the Good Life - a tall transparant box containing an arm chair for the dog to sit on and then look out at you. http://www.dogisagod.it/

This is just pain stupid.

oops! plain, but then again if I were a dog it would be a pain.

Glass! I am already neurotic about the car windows being covered in his nose prints. (yuck)

totally impractical and ridiculous.

I guess I don't know how dogs think. I don't have a dog and I don't be a dog. It's just one of those fantasies where you think if you were a dog, you'd love this house even if a real dog wouldn't ever. If it were a human-sized lounge for the backyard or even for a loft apartment, that would also be nice, but it would also have to be a little nicer.

Morosoni seems to be promoting attention-getting small-scale design projects under the rubric of dog houses. As witnessed by the posts above, no one who actually keeps a dog would think of proving her a glass house (or a ceramic or rice paper one either). I can't imagine that the designer is too stupid to realise this. I'm sure this is some kind of promotional effort in support of other types of design products and/or services.

I really like the look of the thing... BUT. I think it would be incredibly impractical for most dogs--the one pictured couldn't even sit or stand up in the thing. Plus, can you imagine how HOT that glass box would get?? (Oh, and how exactly are you supposed to clean the nose prints off the glass?) Maybe it would work for an exhibitionist ferret?

That said, as a coffee table it would ROCK.

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