So I decided to take the doggies on a little trip to Wyoming. Why? Because my momma lives there and I thought I’d go and soak up some sun on her deck and let my beasties run like mad in her yard. Mom had two doggies also, both pugs, JB who is Jester’s younger brother by six months (let’s not even go there), and Piper, who is Teak’s half sister, younger by two years. That makes six dogs to hang out with while Mom goes off to work with humans.
The first morning I was here, I made the tragic mistake of leaving my dogs in my bedroom while I showered. Since I do this every day at home, I didn’t think much of it. Big difference to the Teak dog. At home, the bathroom and bedroom are all one big room, here there is a hallway separating the two. Which apparently means a free for all for Teak. While I was happily scrubbing away, she climbed onto the bed, up onto the back of a chair, somehow managed to work her way around my purse and pulled a soft sided cooler off the ledge. She then worked the zipper open and proceeded to pull out a bag of dog treats and shred the plastic and eat all the cookies. Yay Teak! What a creative girl. How do I know it was her? Because when I came back in the room, she was the one still licking the package remnants. Also, she was pretty cracked out the rest of the day - like a kid on a candy binge.
Her next trick has been to paw at the cupboard in the kitchen about 200 times a day. She has figured out how to get her face in there and push the door open. Fine, we just kept telling her to leave it alone. The other night, in the maybe 34 seconds between when my dad went to the kitchen to get ice cream, and when I went in to get water, the little animal had opened the door and had the entire front half of her body in Piper’s food and was gorging herself. Luckily, the kitchen is like two steps from the living room, and I chased her out of there before she got too much. Someday, I’d really love for her to look sorry instead of triumphant when she pulls these stunts. I can only hope that my mom’s dogs are not taking notes on how to be bad little pugs. Our solution? Duct tape on the cupboard door so she can’t get it open - now she’s just pissed off about it and we keep hearing these angry little paw swipes. Ha! Figure that one out, brat.
Other than the bad bad little black dog, everyone else has been pretty good. Karma gorged and made herself sick on grass and bird seed from under the bird feeder, so that was a fun explosion, and Dyson got left outside unattended for maybe 20 minutes and ripped up a portion of the deck trying to get to the bunnies underneath. Just a small piece of the board, not even a hole there, but you have to admire the effort. He got in trouble for digging under the deck the day before, so I can see in his mind how he wasn’t digging anymore, right? Removing deck boards is simply getting them out of his way. He’s become a bit obsessed with all the small critters around here. Jester has actually been very good, and has spent lots of time laying in the sun when it’s out.
Traveling with dogs is always an adventure, heck, daily life with Teak is a trip. I just never know what she’ll do next. I think I’m losing the war.
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by michelle
Filed under: My dogs, Random run ins
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