Dog Gate

It was a teensy bit cooler this morning, so I took Bluey for a walk to Papercup for a coffee. We then drove to Bunnings to buy a baby/pet gate. This will be installed downstairs near the doggy door so Blue can be confined downstairs when we go out leaving him at home.

He sometimes has trouble going up the stairs, getting three-quarters of the way up before losing confidence. If we are not immediately there to help him, he will stop or turn around and go back down. Tilly sometimes bullies him on the stairs, so his fear of falling down the stairs is not unfounded.

I have trained him to go out the doggy door, but he prefers us to open the front door for him. He doesn’t willingly go down the stairs if I have told him to use the doggy door. I doubt he has ever taken himself outside when we were not home. The gate will remove any risk of Bluey hurting himself on the stairs when we are not home.

I have lots of outside jobs to do, but am not prepared to tackle them in this heat and humidity. I ordered a fresh packet of tile repair paint, which arrived today. This is a fiddly time-consuming job, but effectively hides small chips and scratches.

We have abandoned our efforts to have a new air conditioning unit installed on the Bushtracker. No other model will fit in the space between our solar panels. Our old unit is noisy but effective since the junk was removed from the inside. If the Truma breaks down, we may have no option other than to replace it with another Truma.