The Bark’s DIY First Place Winner—Advanced （树皮的DIY Winner-Advanced）.pdf

The Bark’s DIY First Place Winner—Advanced Level Shasta-Style Puppy Camper Playhouse By Michael Blunt The Shasta-style puppy camper started out as a labor of love and a personal challenge. Ive been a woodworker for many years and I earn a living making musical instruments (well … banjos...). A few years ago, just for fun, I started making birdhouses inspired by the old Shasta and Teardrop camper trailers of the ’40s and ’50s. At a friends urging I opened an Etsy shop, and now I can barely keep them in stock. Almost since the very beginning of the birdhouse project, my wife has been encouraging me to try to scale one up for a dog playhouse. Finally, for her birthday this year, I came up with a design and built one. I designed the Puppy Camper for indoor use only, and for a dog of up to 30 pounds—three of our five rescued dogs fit that size. It took a while for our dogs to explore the camper, despite mining it with treats at first—they’re suspicious by nature. It took so long it almost hurt my feelings. But now Cocoa Rae Bean eats all her meals in there. At meal times she sprints from the kitchen and runs into her personal diner, wagging and dancing in anticipation of another great dinner “on the road.” On nice days, we sometimes pull it outside so they can play in it on the patio, but it wasn’t built to withstand weather. Plus, we believe dogs should be sleeping under the covers with their humans, not outside in doghouses. It’s gratifying to see the dogs enjoy their playhouse, and it attracts a lot of attention from our friends. So much so that Ive made a couple more and plan to sell these in my Etsy store in the future, too . E/shop/jumahl Shasta-Style Puppy Camper - Instructions The camper is constructed of ” Baltic Birch plywood, sometimes called cabinet plywood, because it is very high quality, has multiple plys for stability and has no voids. It comes in 5 by 5 sheets rather than the