Apologies for not keeping up with anything- we managed (despite my slight disbelief that we actually did!) to get a new apartment. We closed and are in the process of moving our stuff over (it's close enough we are walking a lot of it over, load by load, very tiring but will hopefully allow us to go through our stuff in a thoughtful way!)
But my mom has always described my dogs as "kitchen dogs" & now we have gotten this dog a proper kitchen to stretch out in!