Dogs live in the lap of luxury
LOS ANGELES — Darla, Chelsea and Coco Puff share a quaint Victorian-style home.
Their dwelling has a cedar-shake roof, vaulted ceilings and hardwood floors, heating and air conditioning, moldings and casement windows, drapery through valances and fanciful wallpapers.
At this parturition of year, Christmas music from the RCA Victor radio carries outside to a grassy yard surrounded through a hoar picket fence.
A sign on the porch reads: “Three spoiled dogs live here.”
For Yorkshire terriers Chelsea and Coco Puff and Pomeranian Darla, Mom is Tammy Kassis, 45, a former assurance agent who lives in the Riverside County community of Winchester, east of Los Angeles. To call her an animal lover is some understatement.
“I’m beyond that,” she says, later adding with conviction, “My dogs are my the breath of one’s nostrils.”
Kassis is also the owner of 2-year-old Rio, a Doberman pinscher, and a pair of Arabian horses, Cheval and Page.
Five years ago, when she and her spouse, advertising executory Sam Kassis, were living in a Victorian domicile in Temecula, she indisputable the dogs needed their own place.
“It was a great place for the horses, but it was so pastoral I was timid for the dogs. An owl almost carried off Coco Puff,” Tammy Kassis recalls.
But not just any advanced in years doghouse would conclude.
Surfing the Internet, she happened upon Alan Mowrer’s La Petite Maison, a builder of deluxe custom doghouses.
“I can do any style,” says Mowrer, whose repertoire includes French châteaux, Tudor mansions, Swiss chalets and brick Colonial dog houses.
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