Those steps are an old pair of hot tub steps, the hot tub is gone [ debbie flood ] but I use the steps now as a grooming steps. In the evening when I return from work, when out the door with the dogs, Ace will go right to the steps for his brushing with a zoom groom. It's a daily ritual that he won't miss, he actually seems to enjoy it.
You wouldn't know it from the picture he seems so slick and handsome, but the hair I brush out daily almost defies belief. I don't know where it all comes from.
He is SOOO gorgeous!! Bogey is the same age and I feel so much the same way- everything I expected, some thing I DIDN'T, but I would not trade it for a million $$$$.