Well, I suppose I will go out tonight and purchase a Varikennel in the hopes that it will keep the FinnMonster in his cage.
We had cut him some slack, as he had been being good as gold in the house while we were at work. We gave him free run of it while we were out on short jaunts, and then worked him up to longer periods of time out. Finally he got the whole house, all day to himself [and his cat buddies]. Well, the stinker truly abused that priviledge. He was good for a solid week. Friday when I came in he had eaten a big hole in my winter hat [shredded it everywhere] and had destroyed a throw rug. I thought, perhaps he had a bad day, let him run the house on Monday... Came home to a 2 inch novel shredded, another rug shredded, teddies from my teddy bear collection all over the house [he had to climb/jump to get those], the edge of a plastic ice scraper chewed off, and my couch pillows everywhere. SO... needless to say, back into the cage he went. Few of you may remember that he can break out of his cage, quite easily. It is no fluke, he knows perfectly well how to do it with paws and nose. To keep this from happening, I closed the latch and took wire garbage bag ties to hold the latch down. Well, here we go...the Finnmonster chewed through the wire ties, and was free in the house to ruin the new rug I bought to replace the shredded one, and my teddies again. Bad to the bone right now. Is it seperation anxiety, [he is 11 months old, is it an age - maturity - thing?],the love of destruction, or paybacks for leaving him??? Tonight he gets a new cage, or a system to latch the exsisting one that is inpenetrable! Good thing he is cute, cuddly and 90% of the time adorable. So, I am off to clean the confetti [from the book] off the carpet and hope someone can clue me in on this behaviour! By the way, this dog has tons of chews, toys and playthings available at all times... Karen and Finn 'the destructor' ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
