What do you buy the pooch lover who has everything? Start with two weeks inside a giant wooden Beagle.
Recognising a niche in the market, chainsaw artists Dennis Sullivan and Frances Conklin created Idaho’s Dog Bark Park Inn and opened it to guests in 2003.
The married couple funded the project with their canine wood carvings, which they sold on the QVC channel. Visitors can watch them work in the artists’ studio and buy their doggy memorabilia in the gift shop.
Open to one party of guests at a time, the two-storey, two-room guest house includes canine-shaped cookies on the pillows and a headboard featuring 26 carved dogs. The giant ears flap in the wind, and the outside toilet is disguised as a huge fire hydrant.
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