Dogs are so easy to please. One of the few things in life they apparently need is something soft to lay down on. We bought a crib mattress because I was tired of the regular dog beds being "nested" to death, bunched up in spots and totally flat in others, so that only one dog at a time would actually use the bed after a while.
Dog beds are not cheap, especially if you find yourself replacing them all the time and they must be large enough for 3 Jack Russells (or one regular sized dog). I thought this crib mattress purchase would be applauded by them because it is just like a people mattress, and they treat our bed like it's some mysterious island paradise they can see in the distance just out of reach. Oh boy, was I ever wrong. They can't nest anymore! And I figured something else out...crib sheets are just plain scratchy.
Let's face it, there are not many choices out there when it comes to shopping for crib sheets. I'm sure there are more fashionable designs these days, compared to blue, pink, or ducky yellow when I was a kid. But new parents have so many other things to buy, and your kid is probably going to soil the crib sheet many times before it's time to move on to bigger and better bedroom furniture. And then there is that pesky suffocation hazard, which I assume is why I can't for the life of me locate a down feather bed to go under the sheets on this thing! So softness of crib sheets seems to have little priority among the typical consumer of such goods.
Yesterday at Target, though, I was delighted to find jersey knit crib sheets, and although the color selection of the knit sheets is greatly lacking (in contrast to the vast color array found in the cat bed department at Petsmart, for example), this may have been a great discovery. I washed the new sheet and put it on today. Now even Jack seems to approve of the softness. I guess we can all rest easy now. Pansies.
