Dog-shaped bed-and-breakfast has leg up on lodging
Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Posted: 12:13 PM EST (1713 GMT)
Frances and Dennis Sullivan stand below a large beagle with a puppy, which is actually a three-story bed and breakfast in Cottonwood, Idaho.
COTTONWOOD, Idaho (AP) -- Some of the best views in the tiny farming community of Cottonwood can be seen through the eyes of a dog.
Well, technically, through the temples of a giant, dog-shaped bed-and-breakfast.
The big dog, known as Sweet Willy Colton to his owners, opened for business last summer southeast of Lewiston.
"He was originally going to be a billboard, but over dinner one night in 1998 one of us said, 'What if it was a bed-and- breakfast?"' said Dennis Sullivan, Sweet Willy's creator and owner of Dog Bark Park. "We scribbled some plans out on a napkin that night."
Dennis and his wife, Frances Conklin, built the 35-foot beagle over the next several years, while maintaining their primary business, an unusual gift shop where they sell wooden dogs carved with a chain saw.
Sweet Willy's accommodations are bigger than they appear from the outside. Weary travelers can freshen up in the bathroom, appropriately housed in Willy's hindquarters. A bed, bookshelf, table and breakfast bar take up Willy's stomach.
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