Pet Doormats

Doormats and feeding mats for a house with a dog in it. The Soggy Doggy doormat is the full-size 26-by-36-inch mat for the door, in red with a beige bone, beige with red, navy with oatmeal, gray with light gray and chocolate with tan, built to take wet paws in January and red Georgia clay the rest of the year. The matching slop mat goes under the bowls. There is also a "Wipe Your Paws" mat and a buffalo-check weighted door stop. $29.99 to $44.99.

Soggy Doggy mats are microfiber chenille, which is why they absorb so much more than a coir mat; they machine wash and dry, and the rubber backing keeps them put on tile. Get two if the dog uses the back door as much as the front. The slop mats catch the water an enthusiastic drinker throws, which is most of them.

They belong with the bowls and the blankets in the setting-up-the-house list, and our puppy checklist puts one on day one.