Hmmm well Miss Ivy Menace has not been
exceptionally naughty since our last mention of her misdemeanours but we definitely cannot report that she has been exceptionally good. Instead she seems to be targeting her naughtiness to most frustrating thing that she can access. Here are a few recent examples of the Menace at work:
- as my phone was playing up and I needed to test it with another sim card I purchased a prepaid sim. I'd unpackaged it, put it on the side table by my laptop and gone to the kitchen. On my return I went to put the sim into my phone only to discover it had mysteriously vanished - only to be found chewed thoroughly beneath the table. This all happened within 2 minutes of the sim being left unattended!
- in my fishtank light there is a specially made piece of card to block out the light from shining out of the front. It's not valuable but took an age to get just right. Amongst many pieces of packaging and other enticing things, this piece of card is the one that Ivy chose to sneak off with and demolish!!
- I bought a new heater for said fishtank, an intelligent, expensive addition. One of the reasons for choosing to replace the old one was that there was no holder in the tank for the previous heater. The new one came with a very discrete suction cup, custom fitted to the back of the new heater, neat and almost invisible. Guess what went missing from among all of the little things that I carefully laid out on the table? Yes, the suction cup, chewed and mauled under the table!!!
I think I am the subject of a campaign of terror in actual fact. Little Tris looks upon the destruction with horror and a look in eyes that says "I couldn't stop her mum, it wasn't me". Miss Menace, on discovery, greets me with such a happy little face, twinkling eyes and a waggy tail and seems to be little effected by the frustrated "IIIIIIIVVVVVVVVYYYYY" that can be heard for several miles. Why!!! Why, please tell me why every time it has to be something that I need!
I do love the little Menace fiercely but she definitely makes me prove it daily LOL. She is such a little darling that it's hard to be mad with her but I think that her cuteness is her currency and the exchange rate is dropping!!!!!!!!
Marcia here,
My BlackBerry bit the dust just b4 Thanksgiving due to the chewing of a cute puppy
My best set of ear buds were chewed up beyond repair.
The pair of Crocs that I love to wear on vacation and after a shower are now graced with teeth marks and finally
The USB transfer case for my memory stick has been deemed no longer useful due to someone thinking it was a blue mint candy.
I say Ivy and Danni are distant cousins or both need to go to Chewers Anon.
My Rudy-angel was a notorious chewer. Shoes, furniture and other items within his reach simply bit the dust. We later discovered that it was likely due to him being separated from his mother too early. I never completely solved the problem. At one point he ate a piece of a polyester blanket, which lodged in his stomach. Being synthetic, his stomach acid did not break it down. They ended up doing exploratory surgery to remove it. Interestingly, they found one of his baby teeth still in his stomach, too...at age 10. Rudy ended up with a scar from his sternum to his pee pee.
I know puppies are supposed to chew, but at some point, you may want to talk to an animal behaviorist about excessive chewing. It has to be cheaper than surgery!
Oh my goodness ...I have one of those too!...her name is Miss Chief...aka Sadie!...just can't stay mad at her....she's sooooooo darn cute wagging and wiggling around thinking everything's a game!
Ahem, Red here, I cannae believe ma wee purple frilly pants is at fault, TWAS The FISH!
It's gotta be a girl thing. Millie is just the WORST when it comes to chewing stuff in my family. And her puppies just destroyed their toy basket. :doah:
It's not a girl thing. Parker chews like crazy. There is not a blanket in the house that doesn't have a hole chewed in it, and he loves the corners of pillows. He is pretty good about not snagging things off the table.....probably because he gets scolded.
Mind you our biggest issue with him is the marking. That's definately a boy thing. He pulls the towels off the racks and pees on them. We close the door now. People think it's because he drinks out of the toilet......as if he could reach that far.
dis is Parker: I am a berry goood boy, jus like Ibey is a good wittle frilly pants girl!!!!!
I'z gettin berry berry cwoss! I'z NOT a purpel fwilly pant gurl - dey is Wissy's pants and my mum woz been cwuel on me dwessin me up wike dat. I'z a sooperheero 'member, I'z da soopermennas!! Wen I'z purrfeckted my sooperpowars dat meenie mummy betta wotch out!!! I'z gonna be abel to just wook at sumfing and make it all choowed up wif my eyes, den I won't haf to cwime up high da get fings fwom da tabel, I will jus wook at dem and pop!!!! Choowed all up!!!
Mebbe den I iz gonna get sum wespect awound da howse. Den we will see who iz waring dem fwilly pants! I figger dat I betta habs a back up pwan wile my sooperpowars iz geddin stwonger. I fink I mite jus act berry cyute and 'tend I'z twying da be gud........dat seems ta be wurkin so far pwetty gud.
Wuv and fings
Ivy da Terrible
PS I can borro Wissy's pants agen iffin you fink I wooked cyute Red and Parker :hkiss:
This is the voice of Angel King Sol:
Ahem....two outta three issues were with the stinkin' fish.....maybe thats the key issue. I bet if Ivy had a really big dingo bone and the fish were outta sight she would be a very good girl. The kind that likes to have her blanky put in the dryer sometimes so its warm and snuggly.
My second guess is that she doesn't get enough treats and she iz hungry so that's why she eats stuff. Don't make me call the ASPCA cuz they have a branch office over here at da rainbow bridge.
Barooooo Ivy-girl, I know you have your reasons.
:heart:
How about buying your husband a brand new pair of Merrell shoes for Xmas which were saved up for and then the beloved husband accidentally left them out (cannot leave any personal leather goods out with Boomer around which I'm sure lead to one of the contributions to his being in rescue) and I noticed that the beloved husband was not wearing said new shoes for quite some time. Upon inquiring as to the whereabouts of the long-saved-for Xmas gift, beloved husband admitted that they were totally beyond repair and in fact had been EATEN and subsequently POOPED OUT weeks ago and "the remains" had been given a decent burial to save my feelings. Don't you just love these little characters???
Quote from: VBDoxieMom on February 02, 2011, 06:06:45 PM
This is the voice of Angel King Sol:
Ahem....two outta three issues were with the stinkin' fish.....maybe thats the key issue. I bet if Ivy had a really big dingo bone and the fish were outta sight she would be a very good girl. The kind that likes to have her blanky put in the dryer sometimes so its warm and snuggly.
My second guess is that she doesn't get enough treats and she iz hungry so that's why she eats stuff. Don't make me call the ASPCA cuz they have a branch office over here at da rainbow bridge.
Barooooo Ivy-girl, I know you have your reasons.
:heart:
Fank yoo AKS dats wite!!! Its dem fishies jus dwivin me CWAZY cos I wos da baby til dey awived and I shood be getsin all da 'tenshun wownd heer. Yoo cant eben pet a stoopid fishy. I jus needs unnerstandin! I don't choo eberyfing, not eben cwose. I stopped eeting owr bed now and I neber eat shoos eny more but iffin dere is pwastic I wuv to choo it sooooo much and iffin its up on da tabel I jus no dat its gonna be delishus!!!!!!!
Mum is kwite a gud gurl for warm bwankies, she puts dem on da radiator a wittle before bedtime so dat dey are cosy. So magin how notty I mite be iffin she dident do dat! I do need lotsa tweets cos I iz berry hungery. I been findin iffin I goes oudindagawden and do a wittle wee den I gets a tweet, dats wurkin out gud cept mum sez I wees all da time wite now but she is pweesed wif me for askin bout goin oudside xxxxx
Thankfully all that Willy and Alex ever chewed up was dog beds. As puppies, they went through three of them. I'd come home from work and find one inch pieces of dog bed material and foam rubber ALL over the kitchen. And the little guys were so proud of themselves. At least they didn't chew up the table or chair legs so I can't complain. Harry was still with us at the time, and very old. He would just look at me when I'd come home and find the mess as if he was thinking "I told you we shouldn't have gotten these two little monsters."
Slinky could be Parker's "brother from another mother". He has chewed super-holes in my faux fur throws I had on my couch and also does his share of marking. Thank goodness we have wood floors, but we also have mountainy-log furniture and he thinks all the legs on the log furniture are his personal "indoor trees" to pee on. Now we leave the holey blankets for him to have his "Linius security blanket" and we have to put the new ones away when we leave the house. The things we live with in order to have Doxies!