I got up from my nap and went to the kitchen for a snack. I came back into my bedroom to find The Herd just climbing out of bed. Dr. Beau Leaky was skulking and looking anything but innocent ("Is there a problem, Officer?") but I didn't think anything of it at the time. I let The Herd out to the deck for their afternoon romp in the doggie yard and headed back to my bedroom for fresh water for them. It was then that I spied the mutilated remains of my dusky blue $200 Dr. Comfort special shoes, prescribed by the podiatrist to help with my foot problems!
That's what I get for a) leaving dachshunds unsupervised and b) leaving my shoes on the floor instead of on the shelf in the closet (silly me, shoes on the floor! I mean after raising six children and six previous dogs, did I not learn anything?). So the shoes are a total loss and I will be wandering around in my Dr. Sholl's slippers until I can get something else to put on my feet.
I keep telling Beau, "It's a good thing you are so cute, son, 'cause you are not making me a happy mother!"
I wish he'd gone for another library book - it was a lot cheaper!
:2funny: I'm sorry! :2funny: Really I am. SNORT! Yeah, I feel your pain. You see, (speaking of leaky), I have a leaky Madderoo who finds the most sadistic pleasure in seeing how many times she can irritate her mommy by LEAKING on the carpet! And the REAL issue here is, she's a SPITE pee'er. Mommy goes away to do a food show when mommy should be loving and catering to the princess all day. Naturally there will be....and mommy should know this.....H. E. double toothpicks to PAY. 2 spite pees while mommy is trying to sell vanilla and spice and everything nice. I mean, it would be another thing if it were snakes and snails and puppy dog.......er....nevermind. And OF COURSE papa says "they're YOUR dogs so guess who gets to scrub on carpets (which doesn't really help but only spreads the mess)? That's right. The MOMMY! So, I'm right there with ya', girlfriend. If the little booger wasn't so cute, she would have been shipped off to Siberia LONG AGO. But, hey! It's only carpet and while carpet can be replaced.....eventually, there's only ONE Madderoo (THANK GOODNESS!) They broke the mold when they made her.
Incidentally, Miss Dolly would be MORTIIFIED to make a puddle in the house. I keep trying to tell her to TALK SENSE to Madison, but so far, it is obvious that Madderoo is having NONE of it.
Before I got Beau, Merlin and Roscoe, I had Guinness the original member of The Herd. He had, ahem. toileting issues. Actually his only issue is that he pees whenever the mood strikes him. So when I bought this house and rehabbed it for myself - a rancher, handicapped-accessible bathroom, extra wide doorways, enlarged kitchen - I had ceramic tile laid on the entire first floor. Talk about heaven! No care required. I sweep and wet swiffer and it always looks good!
Beau is a submissive uinater, which means he crouches down, rolls over, and pees into the air, invariable peeing himself in the eye. It's actually quite funny. Sometimes I pick him up and hold him at arms length while he's peeing in mid-air, and I'm carrying him outside.
Hmmmm. Madison. The female version of Guiness, perhaps? When the mood strikes. Yep. That's her. :dontknow:
Of course the expensiive shoes were chewed can't chew on the inexpensive shoes would be below their station in life must be the good stuff must taste better. As for the peeing in the house I cheat put diapers on the offending pooch.
Papbouv
When my Rudy-angel was a puppy, he went through a shoe-chewing phase. He damaged or destroyed seven different shoes...all left shoes, too! Luckily, he gave up that habit. Zora and Zeke are fortunately not as chew-happy, with the only thing being some of my daughters puzzles that make animal noises that Zeke tries to "kill".
I think every Dachie owner has one at one time or another. Our main claim to fame is Emma Angel, who chewed her way through co axle satalite cable just at the outside wall while we were having lunch where it came out the wall next to the dish. You cannot bend or join it, all I can say thank God it was his beloved :grin:, it had taken two hours to get it through the roof space and down the wall, that was about $200 (Au) about 15yrs ago. Her other claims to fame were taking a 3 inch circle out of a plush pile carpet in the middle of the room($500) then who can forget the night she desided to shred Nick's CPA, FCPA documentation, all on the day he decided to look for it and I was despirately trying to get copies so he would not find out ($200).
Roberta