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You’ve moved into a new home or you’re ready to redecorate. You’ve found the perfect set of custom blinds that match your couches and your accent shelf. You’ve paid a handyman to put those blinds up, and you smile at the sight of them from inside and outside of your window.
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A few days later, you come home to find that your dog has other plans — she’s chewed a hole right through one set and twisted the others in the opposite direction. It looks like you’ve let the Tasmanian Devil use your home as an Airbnb.
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Whether you choose Cellular Shades, Pleated Shades, Vertical Blinds or Sliding Track Panel Blinds, two things have to happen — your dog has to get used to this new window treatment and you have to figure out a happy medium for your dog’s favorite hangout, the windows. If she likes to walk on the window sill like a pirate demanded she walk the plank, then keeping your blinds in place is going to take some patience and a few “no” and “leave it” commands.