BusinessWeek has an article today about luxury dog houses, citing that prices can go as high as $25,000 for production homes, and $100,000 for custom built ones...

Designers and architects have taken the pet industry's growth as a cue to transform the traditional A-frame doghouse into imaginative new real estate projects. Ranging in price from $900 to upwards of $100,000, designer doghouses are typically created with two things in mind: catering to the habits and personality of the dog, and complementing the beauty of the owner's house.

I can understand spending up to a couple hundred dollars for a sturdy cedar dog house, but once you get into the thousand-dollar range, it becomes nothing more than just the fun of spending lots of money. While big-spending dog owners might claim they want nothing but the best for their "Mimi", the truth is that the dog would prefer to sleep in the owner's house.

Here's a photograph of the $25,000 dog house, complete with an air-conditioning unit, ceramic tile floor, suede couch, and a real flat-screen television (not pictured). It's designed to accomodate both dogs and their owners, for those times when the wife kicks you out of the bedroom.



The $100,000 dog house is being built by Doggie Mansions for NFL Quarterback, Carson Palmer. I think there are some actual "manufactured homes" you can buy for that amount.