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"tent" to be placed over an outdoor dog bed

My dog's bed is on our patio.  If it rains outside and is windy, the bedding can get wet.  is there a man made tent to be placed over the bed for it to stay dry?

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Jan 11, 2010. 4:12 PMseandogue says:
Burf, lemonie, and redesign all have good approaches.

One the "cheap", a ripstop tarpaulin could be easily tweaked into shape as a 3 sided tent or hut with a couple of internal supports made from 1x1 stock. For instance, if you were going camping, or if  this is a more temporary situation, or you don't have the skills to make a proper dog house or resources to buy a tent. A 6x8 ripstop tarp @ ~$5-10 will do the trick.

In fact, if you needed one this minute but had no ability to do any of the above but had a pair of trash bags you could rig up a nice dry area for the evening.
Jan 11, 2010. 5:31 PMseandogue says:
On the cheap, not one...

boy, it'd be nice if they'd introduce some form of edit outside cutting pasting deleting etc already..
Jan 11, 2010. 3:52 PMRe-design says:
Just build him a proper dog house.  You obviously care for him.  You can build a pretty simple dog house pretty easy.
Jan 11, 2010. 3:01 PMBurf says:
Obviously, you need a "pup tent"

http://www.google.com/products?q=pup+tent+for+dogs&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=kq1LS_D3EY2AsgPfwpz3BA&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CB8QrQQwAA
Jan 11, 2010. 2:44 PMlemonie says:
A child's tent or playhouse perhaps?
Horrible, stupid price, but you'll get the idea.

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