Dog Slobber Splash Blocker

Say you've got a humungous ginormous beast of a dog. Say said dog drinks oodles of water to fill up that huge body. Then say said dog splashes water and slobber and yuck in like a ten foot radius. On top of that, you just painted the wall behind his water bowl and the water sprays are super streaky.

In an effort to stop the water from ruining our house, I found a particle board shelf that was leftover from a unit that didn't survive a move. Materials hoarder that I am, I kept the shelves thinking they'd be good for something someday. Someday arrived.

I propped it up between the wall and the bowl then walked away wholly dissatisfied with its overall general lack of tasteful appearance.

The next day I was staring at that sad particle board when it hit me: carve out a city skyline!

I drew up some random shapes trying to keep the center most practical, yet be stylish.

I began with the 3" circular saw I had, cutting away larger chunks and the straight lines.

Next I used my jigsaw to get into corners and finer details.

I used a can of white spray paint that I had laying around. I'll likely go back with a can of Plasti Dip as that stuff worked incredibly well on the water bowl stand that I built.

I attached the cutout to the wall using screws I found in my vast collection of randoms, washers to dress it up in a sort of industrial chic kinda way, and wall anchors.

Drill through the cutout into the wall, drill out the wall holes larger, cram in the anchors, screw in the screws then wait...

It works! I have saved the wall from the beast's watery ways. Yay!