The reason my shoes mostly stay in their shoe rack is primarily because I am clumsy and trip over them otherwise. Also, trained by puppies.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pix - Aug 20, 2007 8:09:10 am PDT #5598 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Jessica - Aug 20, 2007 8:13:09 am PDT #5599 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have a shoe rack hanging over my closet door for non-boot-non-heeled shoes I don't wear very often, and a smaller one just outside the front door for shoes I wear almost every day. (Boots are on the closet floor, heels are on a little shoe shelf. In our old place, heels were also on the closet floor but the previous owner of this place did a really nice job custom-shelving the closet, and there is a nifty little slanted shelf just for shoes.)
I don't have anything to measure my fingers with.
Cass - Aug 20, 2007 8:15:06 am PDT #5600 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Also, trained by puppies.My parents' dog, one of the Goldens, steals shoes. Just takes them and wanders around with it. The thief. I have to remind myself to shut my door when I am there. And not to take my shoes off anywhere else. Because Baron steals shoes.
sarameg - Aug 20, 2007 8:18:02 am PDT #5601 of 10001
I have a couple racks. And then I have the floor of the lovely huge walk-in closet and that works very nicely too!
lisah - Aug 20, 2007 8:26:37 am PDT #5602 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
My friend's tiny dachsund steals shoes. It is HILARIOUS. She will take any shoe, including boots way bigger than she is and move them around the house. My friend has to keep all her shoes on a high shelf in a closet with a closed door.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2007 8:27:39 am PDT #5603 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My closet is pretty much a nightmare. Obviously I have way redundant shoes, and I'm the only one to blame for that. I have a small two-level rack on one side of the closet, but can't put one on the other because it has two rows to hang stuff on, and shoes on racks would be right up in the lower row.
I'm pretty sure that I have too many shoes to fit in the current layout but it's so damned rare for me to try and put them all away at once that I've not tested the hypothesis.
It's a big walk-in closet. I just have too much shit.
Pix - Aug 20, 2007 8:28:31 am PDT #5604 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Before my puppies became dogs, they would simply eat shoes. No shoe was safe.
bon bon - Aug 20, 2007 8:34:32 am PDT #5605 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My solution has been to keep my work shoes at work and wear something easy to commute in on my way to work. Keeps me from falling down subway stairs and saves the stoppers on my shoes. Plus, fewer shoes in my apartment!
sumi - Aug 20, 2007 8:36:13 am PDT #5606 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
That's my solution too.
beekaytee - Aug 20, 2007 8:36:16 am PDT #5607 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
One of Bartleby's trainers explained the whole dog chewing shoes phenom as a search and rescue effort. The person's smell is so concentrated in the shoe that the dog thinks, "My person must be in there. I'll go in and get him/her!"
Takes off the 'destructive' onus, but does not make the shoe any less chewed.
Bboy has only ever eaten two shoes. One Kenneth Cole belonging to a boyfriend he didn't like. The other...well...I'd been out with the same beau and when I got home, Bartleby went down two flights of stairs, nabbed the sandal and then brought it to the bathroom door so that I could watch him chew off the strap. He clearly didn't want any confusion as to who exactly was making the statement.