Meet Hennessy — a sweet little dog whose dad just built a cozy new place for him to call his very own.
Last month, Hennessy’s owners, David Maceo and his wife, bought their first home. Before moving in, they’d lived a short time at David’s mother’s house, where the three of them stayed together in a single bedroom. David sensed the arrangement was a bit too confining for his playful pup, and started thinking about how he might make it up to him.
“I felt kind of bad that we didn’t have a lot of space,” David told The Dodo. “So when we moved I decided to give Hennessy his own room.”
Eventually, David found the perfect place for his dog — though it wasn’t so obvious at first.
David thought that the stairway in the family’s new home had a hollow large enough to be converted into the ideal pup-sized home.
David said that he had inserted a small camera to check whether there was room for him. As expected, there was:
I finally broke a little hole in the wall, and things progressed from there.
With that, Hennessy was the only one benefiting from the renovations that soon followed the house. To make it appear as though the dog’s room had always been there, David cleaned up the area under the stairs over the course of the following month and painted it to match the rest of the house.
Since Sunday was the only day I had off, I worked on it every week, he said.
The construction went smoothly.
Once all the nitty-gritty carpentry work was out of the way, David then made sure Hennessy’s new room felt as homey as could be. He hung up a few family photos he thought his dog would like to look at.
“There are pictures of him and his brother; he passed a year ago,” David said. “On the other side, there’s a picture of him and a picture of me and my wife. There’s another picture of my father and mother.”
David admitted that he had some concerns that Hennessy might not even enjoy the room when it was finished.
But such concerns were quickly allayed.
After putting Hennessy’s bed inside, David made the big unveiling for his pup.
“I grabbed a little snack and threw it in there for him. He walked in, ate it, and then laid down,” David said. “He didn’t move from there for about 25 minutes.”
Hennessy approved.
Since then, the little dog has taken to spending much of his rest and relaxation time inside his private room.
“He loves it,” David said. “He feels protected under the stairs. He finds it very comforting. It’s the perfect place for him.”
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