“My wife started feeding these dogs when she noticed they were thin. They’ve come up to a healthy weight, but still had no home. I’ve built a bunch of halfpipes and theater set pieces so I offered to design something and build it, wife painted the interior. We live in Mexico. It gets hot so I wanted the interior cavelike. The design was mostly in my head. It has a people access door in case one of the puppers won’t come out for any reason and a rear entry that leads into the garage where the dogs used to sleep under cars, usually on old oil. It was gross and sad.

We slathered the wood in anti termite because it’s mostly pine. They will eventually get it, but I’m hoping it will last a few years before falling apart. We bolted it to that pillar and the concrete floor of the garage. Just in case a hurricane lands. We’re blocks from the Caribbean.”