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by Sunsilver on 17 May 2010 - 16:05
Okay, I am moving on the 31st. I have to wrap up my packing this week.
Last night, I did 3 boxes, and left them stacked in the dining room. This morning, I started on a 4th box, but then took a break to check that I was packing the china right, and then I got sucked in to surfing the net and making a few posts.
i was upstairs less than an hour.
When I came back down, I found some of my mother's precious heirloom sliver cutlery scattered across the living room floor. The handles of the knives had been chewed and badly dented. At first, I was cursing my self for having left the knives where the puppy (9 months old) could get to them.
Then my room mate came home, and pointed to something brown on the floor. "What's that, poop?" she asked.
I took a look and saw it was chewed cardboard. I had NOT left the knives out. My puppy had chewed the corner off one of the boxes, and removed them from the box! 
I tell ya, I'm mad enough to spit nails!!!
This means I can't leave any packed boxes where she can get at them.
And I KNOW it was her, because she LOVES to chew paper! She just hasn't done it for quite a while, and I thought she'd outgrown the habit. She can't use boredom as an excuse, either, as the dogs got TWO really good runs along a laneway, probably a total of 2 miles walking yesterday. One of the runs was during the heat of the day, and she ran through every mud puddle she could find, and even lay down in one to cool off! She came home stinking like a swamp...
Anyone want to buy...no...I'll GIVE her away, the way I'm feeling right now...a 9 month old Shiloh shepherd??
Just LOOK at that sweet little face... 
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(This is an old photo. Here ears are fully up now.)
by AKGeorgias mom on 17 May 2010 - 16:05
Opal
by mollyandjack on 17 May 2010 - 16:05
I know how you feel though...I have a mischevious little collie. She is the QUEEN of sneakiness and destruction. For Valentine's Day last year, my boyfriend (now fiance
) gave me a box of Milky Way Darks (my fav). There were probably 24 bars in the box. I opened it partially and ate one...left it on the table and went to work. My roommate comes home and sees a pile of wrappers on the floor. She's immediately suspicious of my collie, who is sitting in the living room looking innocent. HOWEVER, the box was NOT ripped open like one would suspect if a dog had gotten into it. Also, the wrappers had been carefully opened NOT chewed...she just thought that I had pigged out and left a mess of wrappers. She puts the collie in my room so that she can vacuum. I come home from work, walk into my room, and there is a 2 feet wide solidified chocolate puddle on my Jameson mattress. Apparently, Molly the collie had used her needle nose to pinch out individual chocolate bars from the small opening in the box. She had then carefully opened them with her teeth and then ate the chocolate inside...and then carefully threw it all up on my nice bed. She's such a lady.
by Keith Grossman on 17 May 2010 - 16:05
by Sunsilver on 17 May 2010 - 16:05
Molly, yeah, don't you LOVE it when they 'share' like that?
My GSD got into the Halloween candy one year, and he managed to open up these little packets of red licorice Nibs without tearing the wrappers. He completely flattened them out somehow!
Luckily, I heard the rustling, and took the candy away from him before he could eat enough to make himself sick. Licorice in large amounts is very laxitive!
A previous GSD got into a large bag of licorice Allsorts. That's how I know about the effects of too much licorice. She was 'relieved' at both ends, all over the wall-to-wall broadloom!
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by Pharaoh on 18 May 2010 - 02:05
I do have empathy. I just packed up my house and Friday was closing day.
The whole thing was so chaotic I got really, really sick. Wednesday through Friday were a complete nightmare. Saturday and Sunday were spent mostly asleep, puctuated by Pharaoh's "Hey! Let's go for a walk. That sleep therapy must have worked as today I am feeling less foggy headed and I can swallow without excruciating pain and I don't have the chills. Strep Throat/tonsilitis combo probably. If the goldenseal had not worked I would have gone to Kaiser today, but it did work.
Now, Pharaoh and I live in a hotel. I just had a computer guy here to get my system up and running and logged on to the hotel's wifi.
Maybe tomorrow I will get some work done and take some pictures of Pharaoh.
Michele
by Sunsilver on 18 May 2010 - 14:05
I hope you are feeling better soon, and that Pharaoh doesn't get so bored that he chews up the motel room!This is a fairly long-distance move, and that's where the stress comes in. I have to get 2 vehicles moved back south, plus three dogs, two canoes and a camper trailer. I am taking over a home-based business (a boarding and grooming kennel) and need to get more training from the current owners before the deal closes. That's why I have to get my packing done this week, so I can spend part of next week learning about the business. The dog care and check in/check out procedure is easy. It's the accounting side of it that has me nervously chewing my nails!
I did do some bookkeeping once, but I was NOT very good at it!. Fortunately, the friend who is going to be my partner in this also works as the business manager for a car dealership, so she is much more experienced with the financial side of things!Wish us luck...I never dreamt I'd be changing careers at this late stage in my life! I always thought once I got my cochlear implant, and could hear well enough to manage on the phone again, that I'd go back to nursing!
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