We chose the term "The Dog House" as it is not only a place you don't really want to be sent, but an animal-freindly term that is prevalent in popular culture as the place you get sent when you are in trouble. We had to pick a name for the place to put any political, controversial or upsetting threads, and this seemed a good match.
And Penalty Box only works if you are familiar with hockey, and players are just sent there for a period of time - and the threads in The Dog House are not gonna to get released back onto the rest of the board after a set period of time!
As you mentioned, the term "cat house" in popular culture is not associated with anything we would want to promote on Pet Talk.
One of the first thread that inspired the creations of The Dag House had to do with cats - the "kitty litter cake" thread, that made people go "ewwww, gross!"
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