Tuesday, October 4, 2011

DIY- Making A Dog Food Stand for a Tall Dog

Many moons ago, it was suggested that tall dogs should have tall dog dishes. Why? The concept was when the dog bent over to eat, it *might* lead to bloat. So, by creating a tall food stand, we hoped to keep our very barrel chest dogs from developing bloat. (Big dogs are more susceptible to bloat than little). Therefore, many moons ago, we created a stand for Magnum. Then, when Higgins came, we made a food stand for them. It looked like this:


This month, we created a new one for Higgins.

Sanding stuff, stain, putty knife, wood putty...make sure you get the stainable kind...

We god a nice piece of Oak (a stair tread) from Home Depot, marked my spot for the water and food bowl.

Oak Spindles make great legs...




Jeff cutting..
Cut with Saw do-hickey-thingy

Laugh while sanding...

Cut down the spindles to be good leg height

Stain, while wearing old clothing and looking like crap

Let stain dry then poly-acrylic the heck outta it (sanding between layers)
Now, send your camera in for cleaning. While camera is being cleaned, the dog food stand mysteriously puts itself together while your husband watches Sunday night football. We poly'ed it a TON.

Then here is our finished product!

Ta-Da!

It is Higgins approved!

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