And, the Thermometer Says

Most nights, Lilly and Ginko sleep in the basement in their hard-sided crates. The temperature down there stays around 55 degrees year-round. Even on the crazy-coldest nights, like we’ve had over recent weeks, it stays steady. We treat them a bit like birds in that we cover their crates at night with some insulated drapes I once made for our dining room. As an experiment, I used my greenhouse thermometer that’s capable of showing temps both inside the crates and in the basement overall. Here are the results.

The digital thermometer, which can show maximum and minimum temps both inside something and outside it, confirmed that it’s indeed warmer inside the covered crates 59-64 degrees. Outside the crates, the temps measured between 55-59 degrees on a night where it was about 15 degrees outdoors.

So, inside their crated, covered snuggle dens, my sweetie pups stay plenty warm.

In fact, I’d bet that they often stay warmer than we do, if the fire goes out, the winds are blowing, and the temps drop.