2005 Story Set
| Date: December 17, 2005 I went out to open the garage - moved the chewed plywood, rebuilt the block on the hole in the garage door (put a whole damn door on it's side behind the stump) and put the plywood over the inside of the garage door - while Trim the Houdini dog watched me with a baleful eye - she doesn't like the plywood. She had reached the kitchen door and was digging a grove in it and she had re-attacked the molding - only on the door handle side - not the side with hinge - she knows how doors work. Then I went to see what boxes had been knocked over while she made a mad attempt at dragging the drapes loose (under the tools boxes). She had found the cat litter bag - and ripped all the loose paper off of it down to the litter level. I found this when I opened the garage door and stuff fell off of it! Then - since she could not have the drapes - she found a BIG pillow - which belongs on the floor in the green room - and hadn't made it there She tore the hell out of it -- bits and pieces everywhere- and built herself a nest! (This is her destructive "I am mad at you" behavior - she did it once when caregiver wasn't fast enough to let her out - she tore up her bed and peed on the floor). Left alone - she will find something to wreck - hence the 6 screen doors (I have a lot of sliding glass doors) I have to unload the camera so I can take a photo of this one! I unloaded the stumps I managed to get out of the truck and took the ice chest and stuff in then hosed the driveway and watered my plants - Trim - who I put back in the side pen spent all the time whining at me to get out until I picked up the hose - she's afraid of hoses. Someone mistreated her. (We got her at 2 yrs - she wouldn't run sheep.) She did go to her house and eat her dental bone - for a small respite. When I had her in the back pen - she had given up for the moment (She has started clawing at the wooden fence on the side of that pen) and flopped down watching for the back door to open. However - she has tried clawing at the wooden fence! Ooops! She's waiting for me to take my breakfast outside and let her into the yard - where she hovers about me and waits to get back in the house. The stove comes today. The fridge needs to be repaired. Banged up on delivery. Ranger meanwhile entertained himself running in and out the kitchen door whenever I didn't get it fully closed because he is a cat and he wants to go out and explore and runs like hell when I yell at him (he also comes when called - sometimes). Probably wants to play with the rat houses. |
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