What's up with dogs and bathroom rugs?
When your dog has decided the bathroom floor is her new hangout
I thought I was losing my mind. For a week straight, in the morning, I couldn’t figure out why I kept seeing my larger bathroom rug balled up in the middle of the floor. While two people can turn in a circle in my bathroom, it’s not the kind of bathroom where someone would lounge. Additionally, the bottom of the bathroom door is low enough that my toilet bathroom rug gets caught underneath it on occasion. But that didn’t explain the main rug, which lays nowhere close to the door.
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I blamed myself. I wondered if I was rushing out after washing my hair, too busy rubbing in leave-in conditioner or finding a towel to let my hair air dry. Then, I pondered on whether I just didn’t notice I was moving it around because I always take my contact lenses out shortly after my night shower and before I go to sleep. Finally, I wondered if maybe the floors were just slippery and it was moving on its own.
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And then I saw the culprit who was balling up my bathroom mat: my Hound mix Junee who, after weeks of never being caught in the bathroom, strolled inside midday and flopped down. That’s when I figured out she must be getting up in the middle of the night and snooping around. It made sense. She loves the smell of my cocoa butter Vaseline and tries to lick off just about every lotion I put on my legs and feet. So laying right in it, where my feet comfortably wiggle around while I sit on the edge of the tub, was obvious.
Still, what’s up with dogs and bathroom mats?