((PKG)) DOG HOTEL
((VOA Russian))
((Banner: A Place to Stay))
((Reporter: Lesia Bakalets))
((Editor: David Gogokhia))
((Camera: Sergey Sokolov))
((Adapted by: Philip Alexiou))
((Map: Cottonwood, Idaho))
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((Dennis Sullivan, Owner, Dog Bark Park Inn/Bed and Breakfast))
I remember saying to Frances, I have an idea and I’d like to build a big dog. And she, kind of, wondered and said, how big a dog? And I said, a really big dog.
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((Frances Conklin, Owner, Dog Bark Park Inn/Bed and Breakfast))
He’s about 30 feet (9 m) tall, which is the equivalent of three stories, and from nose to tip of the tail, he’s almost that long as well, and he’s about 14 feet (4 m) wide.
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((Frances Conklin, Owner, Dog Bark Park Inn/Bed and Breakfast))
Dennis and I met each other, fell in love. He was already carving dogs but for two of us to work together, then we needed to grow the business somehow.
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((Dennis Sullivan, Owner, Dog Bark Park Inn/Bed and Breakfast))
Over dinner one evening, as seen in movies sometimes, you sketch things on a paper napkin, and it was decided over that dinner that we would make it a little wider than originally planned and make it a room, rooms, and turn it into a bed and breakfast.
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((Frances Conklin, Owner, Dog Bark Park Inn/Bed and Breakfast))
Turned out we were able to buy the acreage that we have here and then start working away on our dream. We had already had a vision of a place called Dog Bark Park.
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((Hotel Customer))
We came here a year ago because we have a beagle, and our daughter and us were planning this for about two years, to get a time we could drive all the way out because we live in Colorado and come with the beagles. So, we came last year, spent about three or four days here, and loved it so much that we came through on another road trip. It’s been great. It’s, our dog really liked it. We liked it. It’s very comfortable and you realize when you’re up in the loft, you’re in the beagle’s eye, and then we were joking because we were in his body, and it was a really special time the first time we came.
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((Frances Conklin, Owner, Dog Bark Park Inn/Bed and Breakfast))
We feel that there’s magic in that dog, but I think, often times people are searching for something different in their life. And sometimes they find their solutions right while they’re here. So, we’re hugely honored and humbled by the fact that just building a silly big beagle, and inviting people to come and stay in it, would have those results because we had no expectation that that would happen.
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