Isn't she as cute as a button? I love her oodles and oodles. All day long, I was excited to go home, run Navi to the beach, and play. The traffic is worse than usual this week; I can only guess it's because people are trying to make an early getaway for the fourth of July. I was very antsy, dancing at the edge of my seat. I finally get home and open the door so Navi can run out to say "Hi!" but she slowly walks out with an extremely guilty looking walk. It's the kind of walk she does when she wants to say something along the lines of "Ok, so, I know I really messed up, but do you still love me?" So I started to look around for whatever she managed to destroy. I was expecting a milk carton to be strewn across the floor, or perhaps another set of tooth gashes in the bed. Maybe a pillow or three ripped to smithereens. The first things I checked were Tim's piano and accordion because if anything happened to those, I'm pretty sure he would cry. Everything looked fine and the bedroom looked nice. I turn around to play with Navi, relieved, and this is what I see:
Oh my. She's managed to pull the carpet up, chew the mat underneath to shreds, and rip up some wood pieces. The floor under the carpet is concrete, so there's nothing she could do to damage that. When she wants to do damage, she really does damage. What other dog eats the wall? She's done that before. I stared at the mess in shock, and then went to IM Tim to tell him the news. I told the dog she was a very, very, very bad, bad, bad dog and I put her in her crate and left her there for an hour. She must have felt awful because she would roll over onto her back every time I walked back into the room. I guess on the bright side of things, I'll get to learn to fix flooring. Another silver lining is that she didn't mess the carpet up at all rather than pull it up; once I replace the mat under that section of the carpet, we can staple it down again and it will be as good as new. If she had messed up the carpet itself, we would be in for an expensive repair, since it is wall to wall carpet in all rooms except the bathroom and kitchen. So at least there's that. I'm not really mad about it because what is being mad going to achieve...but I am honestly really sad right now because I can't take Navi to the beach. If I did, it would almost be a reward for her being very, very naughty. So I guess I'll bike to work tomorrow to avoid traffic and take the dog to the beach when I get home. Doggy gets to stay in her crate tomorrow though, that's for sure.
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