--- title: IKEA Lets Stray Dogs Come And Sleep on the Rugs to Warm Up description: The dogs are making themselves right at home in an Italian IKEA. canonical: https://time.com/5458480/ikea-dogs/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-19T16:47:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:07.165Z og:title: IKEA Lets Dogs Come and Sleep on the Rugs to Warm Up og:description: The dogs are making themselves right at home in an Italian IKEA og:url: https://time.com/5458480/ikea-dogs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45cc59b3e0fa6136/69893f6e97cdff85b96b6c1e/ikeadogs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3525 og:image:height: 1983 og:image:alt: Logos Of The World og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: IKEA Lets Dogs Come and Sleep on the Rugs to Warm Up twitter:description: The dogs are making themselves right at home in an Italian IKEA twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45cc59b3e0fa6136/69893f6e97cdff85b96b6c1e/ikeadogs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This IKEA Opened Its Doors to Dogs to Let Them Sleep on the Rugs > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto—NurPhoto via Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 19, 2018 4:47 PM UTC [IKEA](http://time.com/money/5385678/ikea-restaurant-best-things/) has gone to the dogs. The Swedish furniture store’s location in Catania, Italy, has opened its doors to the city’s stray dogs and the internet is giving the store a virtual belly rub (because stores don’t need biscuits). The [IKEA](http://time.com/4901655/ikea-game-of-thrones-rug-cape-diy/)‘s warm-hearted deed came to light after customer Martine Taccia went shopping and stumbled on a few good dogs lounging around the store’s furniture displays. “My reaction was pure amazement,” Taccia told _The Dodo_. “It’s not a common thing.” She sent the video of the cozy pups to her mother, who posted it on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/vittoria.taccia/videos/vb.100014601945887/508287106334683/?type=2&video%5Fsource=user%5Fvideo%5Ftab) and the story took off from there. [According to the T_he Dodo_](https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/ikea-store-italy-shelters-stray-dogs), IKEA’s employees and customers are making sure the dogs have more than just a roof over their furry little heads. The dog also get food and head scratches and even sometimes permanent homes from IKEA customers who want the dogs to lounge around their living rooms at home to complete the look. The internet is smitten with the idea and customers who are lucky enough to live close to the welcoming furniture store are posting their own photos of IKEA’s floofiest residents, making themselves right at home in the display living rooms. No word on whether the pups have made use of[ IKEA’s pet furniture line](http://time.com/4976169/ikea-pet-line-lurvig/) yet, though. This isn’t the first time that IKEA has helped animals in need. In 2014, they partnered with animal welfare groups in a project called [Home For Hope](https://soranews24.com/2014/08/03/singapores-home-for-hope-campaign-finds-homes-for-shelter-dogs-at-ikea/), where IKEAs in Singapore and the United States added cardboard cut-outs of adoptable dogs to their living rooms. 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