Dogs.
Just as I was noticing Astrid seemed to be getting up more stiffly from her naps curled up on my office floor, and started thinking about getting a bed for her ... BarkBox invited us to subscribe with a free bed. Sold. (My mom loves BarkBox for her pups and has given us several for gifts. My dogs also inherited a huge number of toys from my mom’s pampered pups.) We got the Large (50 lbs+) Memory Foam Bed - Sand , and what we got was 41x29x4" (which corresponds to size X-Large apparently, though Amazon doesn’t have that size in sand). She hopped right on and loves it. Astrid asleep on her BarkBox Memory Foam dog bed The toys and treats in the BarkBox itself were also a hit. The toys are a bit higher quality than many of the cheaper treats you’ll find at places like Petco, and they tend to be more than just a squeaker (e.g., they’ll have crinkly sections). The treats are usually high value sorts of things, a bit too large to use as training treats in my opinion (for that we really...