This happened to me years ago and the reason that I have written this article is so that others won't make the same mistake I made when they decide to kick their dogs out of their people beds and put them in their own dog pet beds.

I was a young man back then and I lived in a tiny house that only had one bedroom which was also very tiny. In this tiny bedroom I had a tiny bed barely big enough to hold me let alone my 2 dogs Bozo and Sparky.

And of course my 2 dogs loved to sleep in the same bed as me but there just wasn't enough room. So I decided that the next best thing would be for me to build them dog pet beds in the corner of my tiny bedroom. The only problem was space or a lack of space where I could build 2 separate dog beds.

I've always believed in mans ingenuity and his ability to create solutions where no solutions seem possible. So I racked my brains and came up with an ingenious solution to the space problem.

I made a blue print of my dog pet beds and early on a Saturday morning I went to the lumber yard and got all the necessary lumber to build the dog beds. When I got home I decided I wanted to make this a surprise for my dogs Bozo and Sparky so I locked myself in the tiny bedroom and started sawing and nailing the bed frames.

I was determined to finish the dog beds by bed time so my dogs would have brand new beds to sleep in that night. I worked diligently without rest and by bed time I had finally completed the dog beds.

I opened the door to my bedroom and let Sparky and Bozo in to see their new sleeping quarters. And the ingenious idea I had come up with to solve the lack of space problem was that I had built dog bunk beds. That's right, one bed on top of the other. I had even hand crafted a small ladder that could be used to climb up to the top dog bunk bed.

My 2 dogs seemed very pleased with their new sleeping quarters. But a problem arose. Both dogs wanted to sleep in the bottom bunk bed?

It was at this point that I realized that dogs couldn't climb ladders.

That put me right back at square one. Because only one dog could sleep in the dog beds I had built the other dog slept with me. But the dog sleeping by himself would get lonely and would join me and the other dog in my bed.

I couldn't get a decent nights sleep. I solved this problem by moving to a bigger house with a bigger bedroom and getting a bigger bed.

And even though my solution of building bunk beds for my dogs didn't work out I still thought it was ingenious. If only dogs could climb ladders.

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By Ralph Cramdin