pets on furniture.
Anna Westhoff Each week, Ben Westhoff shares the ups and downs of owning Pippi, the dalmatian mix he and his wife Anna adopted as a puppy in late 2009, and the first dog Ben's ever had. Shortly after we adopted Pippi, Anna and I moved into our apartment in suburban New Jersey. Soon after that, we got a new couch. And not long after that, we created a new rule: No Pippi on the couch. If you could see how pretty this piece of furniture is, you'd probably understand. (Not to mention the fact that it's worth almost as much as I am.) Yet we know many folks who give their pooches free range. In many of these cases, this stems less from a relaxed attitude than the perception that enforcement ...