We were watching a video last night (Entrapment) and we could her Fluffy chewing on a plastic bottle. When we called her a few times, she appeared with an empty Sprite bottle, which although noisy, is a harmless thing to chew on as she can't quite get her jaws to wrap around them enough to destroy them.

We were watching the video in Joel's room, all the while hearing Fluffy going crunch ruffle bonk smack with the bottle in the lounge room. We figured it was good because as long as we could hear her crunching away on the bottle, she wasn't destroying anything else.

It's our fault, I admit it, but sheesh! You'd think Fluffy would be old enough to play unsupervised for an hour or so. Nope. When we got up and went through the lounge room to get some snacks from the kitchen, there were puddles of green cordial everywhere. We keep a bottle of made-up cordial around to save us making up glass-after-glass each time we want a drink. We had had some with dinner,and left the bottle of the middle of the dining table. Now, we've learnt that Fluffy is big enough to get her front paws and great gaping maw up onto the edge of the table, so we keep it clear of dog-destroyable stuff. But to get to the cordial bottle, she must have first got up entirely on a chair. Not being that bright, I can only think of one person who could have showed her that trick - proof that Shmogg and Fluff are in cahoots, although they do their very best to convince us otherwise.

Green cordial stains like mad, but since I have a badly stained carpet, which was originally green before the pets happened to it, I just consider the green cordial stains "the clean spots". [Sigh]. If it wasn't for those floppy ears and great big doggy eyes, I swear.....

Copyright © Vicky Chapman
January 23, 2000