Geez, it never rains but it pours. Aeryn seems to really be on a roll these days!
Yesterday, while doing some shopping I stopped in at my favourite peanut shop (really, they grow & sell peanuts and peanut products -- they're excellent!), and bought the wherewithall to make up a couple of gift baskets. It's easy to get carried away in a place like that and before I knew I had $50.00 worth of yummies. Once home I stored them safely out of critter reach in the unused spare bedroom. This morning Aeryn was terribly interested in me making up the baskets. This afternoon the whole family headed out to do the grocery shopping, as usual the dogs were left at home "to guard the house" ~ the boys share the x-pen, while Aeryn has free run of the house. We were gone about 3 hours. Shortly after returning home, Rowyn comes prancing up to me bearing a prize of paper. "Where did you get that?" I asked him. Just then Devyn starts barking in my bedroom. The little tattletale was snitching on Aeryn who was holding court in the middle of my bed (where she takes all of her prizes) polishing off a bag of Chipnuts. Ohmygawd, there's only one place they could have came from! I race upstairs and sure enough, she's been in the spare bedroom -- the door & doorknob bear ample evidence of her scratching efforts to open the door. The smart little madam stored that info in her devious brain & waited for the right opportunity, then figured out a way to get the door open. Gone are 2 small and 1 large bag of chipnuts, a bag of chocolate peanuts, a box of chocolate mint patties, 1/2 a bag of scotch mints, and a bag of caramel/pecan chocolates. It could have been worse, she only pillaged one of the gift baskets. All in all, she ate around $20.00 worth of stuff. I had some very uncomplementary things to say about that escapade!!! And she actually had the barefaced gaul to demand her supper tonight -- I don't think so!! There wasn't enough chocolate to be toxic, and the peanuts shouldn't be a worry -- this too shall pass, but fortunately, so far so good and no diarrhea. I can imagine there'll be some crunchy poop to clean up in the yard tomorrow!! We've just come in from last nighttime romps & chores. I'd just finished washing the duck poop off of Rowyn's face, ruff & new leather collar (again!) when I noticed some red spotches on the kitchen floor. A quick check of dog paws finds quite a deep cut in one of Aeryn's front pads. It's a good slice, likely glass or metal in origin, but nice and clean. I hate stitching pads, they don't hold the sutures well, and for cuts like this one I find they heal just as fast with just bandaging. So for now (it's after 2:00 a.m.) I've scrubbed it well and bandaged the foot. Now Aeryn's convinced it's broken! She wasn't lame on it at all until I put the bandage on, now it's a source of many sorrowful looks and sympathy!! And yes, cause for a couple of cookies 'cuz she was so good letting me look after it! not too many dull moments around this house!! sue(Aeryn the devious one with the purple bandage, with Devyn tattletale, and Rowyn poophead!)
