DDog1 will be 13 next year. Until recently you'd never have known but the last few months we've become acutely aware he is in fact an old dog.
We always buy the tribe a present each at Christmas and this year we were thinking perhaps a lovely bed where he can be wistful and curmudgeonly in comfort.
We don't have loads of space so leather Chesterfield type beds are a no go. He's a lot stiffer than he used to be so nothing too high. Ideally easy to wash, but as a working dog he's always had noisy, robust "sensible" beds. Perhaps now is the time to buy something impractical and fluffy?
Not overly bothered about price (as I could likely have bought myself a decent car with what I've spent on dog beds over the years), though DH has gloomily pointed out that anytime we buy an extra large bag of food, posh collar etc for our older animals they promptly snuff it. So not that expensive he starts to get ideas 