So, I bought my dog a new kennel over the weekend. I was trying to be nice to him; his old kennel was a travel one, which he had chewed off the door lock so we had to face it up against the wall. He couldn't see out much. So, we bought him a big 30" wire kennel. He'd have plenty of room to move around and could see all over. The kennel came with a plastic liner on the bottom, which was removable for cleaning. We put his fluffy bed inside and leave for the day. Come home to find he has flipped his bed over, ripped out the bottom and viciously removed ALL of the fluff from the inside. OK, FINE! So no bed for him. He can just sit on a cold plastic liner. The next day, come home to find that he has made 2 large rips in the liner, chewed up the side and kicked it completely out of his kennel. DAMN DOG!!! You'll just have to lay on the bars and the carpet then! I thought. I move his kennel in front of the sliding glass window, because he enjoys looking out. Come home to find that he has shit on the carpet inside his kennel, peed on the sheets he now sleeps on, and is cowering in the corner.
Here, I try to be a nice dog owner. Buy him a nicer, bigger kennel, and this is how he thanks me! After watching "The Dog Whisperer" marathon, I got the strength and inspiration, and decided that Dan has a lot of pent up energy that we just aren't releasing. So, before being put in his kennel, he is walked around the entire complex. There are 2 little crock pots inside where his breakfast and some water is, so he can eat and drink during the day, and we made it smaller with the wire wall, so if he does decide to poop, he's suck right next to it. We also put back the liner and discovered we failed to lock it into place (he can't kick it out now). Come home after just a couple hours of being gone....all is well. OK! Finally!
Today was the big test. We were gone all day at work, and he was left in his kennel. Come home, and all is well. He's eaten and drank, he didn't make a mess, he didn't shred his sheet, he didn't even chew on the liner more. FINALLY!!!!! Apparently my dog doesn't like extra space, and it took all that for me to learn that.
4 comments:
Hahahaha.....that is funny!! Lucy went through the exact same thing! She actually bent the steel bars on her kennel, and cracked off part of the plastic bottom! Im only laughing because i know how you feel :) The dog whisperer helped us too....we started walking Lucy every day, and she was much better. Congrats for making your way through the terrible two's!
Crystal
My dog (who just had her 12th birthday) during pre-one year shredded an entire edition of the Sunday Dallas Morning News. On a different day she obliterated a down pillow (from the bed). And yet on a different day, she tore & emptied one of the seat cushions for the couch we had at the time. When we moved from that apartment, we found evidence from all three incidents still in crevices! The dog's lucky she survived!
However, she's been extremely well behaved after that last one and has had the run of the house all along.
Your story made me laugh SO MUCH! Thanks. I needed that. :-)
P.S. --> I used the Dog Whisperer too. (I whispered to her that if she tore one more thing, she'd be wishing she'd been left at the pound to be euthanized.)
HAHAHAHAHA!!! (Sigh)...I needed that laugh :o)
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