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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.
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.
I have a couple racks. And then I have the floor of the lovely huge walk-in closet and that works very nicely too!
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.
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.
Before my puppies became dogs, they would simply eat shoes. No shoe was safe.
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!
That's my solution too.
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.
When Mac was a puppy, she ate a very expensive pair of suede mary janes that I was supposed to wear in my sister's first wedding. Three days before the date.
She also chewed up my teva sandals and at least one pair of sneakers.