Our new dog, Lena is an escape artist, we had failed to crate her twice. The followings are 2 emails I sent out to family members:
Jan 11, 2008
Lena has systematically taken books out off the bookshelves, she has
special interests on the photo boxes and albums. The damage is reached
double digit and it also becomes almost a daily routine.
We started to use crate again, we started with 2 extra locks, then added
3 locking rings. However, she got out all but one time with all the
locks intact, which is about 1 of 8 success rate. The rate is just a bit
better than the possibility that I can get knocked up at this age
according to the doctor, for cry out loud! I have to say that we are
lucky ( I can\'t believe I am saying this) that she did not touch
anything downstairs (other than the natural deeds, which we cleaned up)
-- she avoided theology carefully, good for her and us, since we have got like 5 shelves of them down at the basement office.
I am about to give up and go back to think that we do not have expensive
furniture and the bottom book shelves CAN have a vacant expression.
Besides, she also have that pathetic pink color of a
almost-bloody-nose-showing-the-work-done-for-escape. What am I supposed
to do?
Feb 19, 2008
Lena got out from her latest/10-days-old-new solid metal crate which the
salesperson at the Petsmart referred as indestructible, which now lays
there in very sorry stage, metal bars bent/torn out, I wish I could say
so is she. She does have a nasty cut on top of the nose, which she fully
deserves to suffer to the fully extend as far as I am concerned.
She then proceeds to tore out the back of the loveseat, just to match
the damage ( done 10 days ago by HER!) on the back of the sofa.
So there you have it, with a rate of $100/1 crate per week, it would be
cheaper NOT to crate her. We shall buy NOTHING for the house until she
settles down, heaven knows when. I am not fully convinced at this point
that kids causes more trouble -- at least not when they are 8 months.
