by popular demand

One of the hazards of having an enormously popular public platform (this blog, I mean; don't laugh), is that people want to participate.

Well, mostly people.

Sometimes dogs too.

Many of you know that our house is in that stage of unsightly disaster, bitter turmoil, and eager expectation known as a room addition. While I'm likely to cover the human perspective on the housely happenings, earlier this week I had a special request to cover those same happenings from a canine perspective.

So, here, with that perspective, our dogs:

Witness the destruction.

And witness the complacent doggy faces, which have inspired the following suggested post titles from my family, who are curiously very very enthusiastic about the dogs' launch to internet stardom:

"Dog Days of Summer"

"All this . . . for us?"

"Who needs a dog house . . . when you have a dog condo?"

"If you think I'm fat now, imagine what I looked like before I went on thyroid medication" -- Cuddles, aka "Top Dog"