Tikva has just de-stuffed a toy and there is stuffing all over the couch and all over the carpet. It was an old one of Pereg's, who had already had a bash at it, but I do hope that the devil will not get a taste for de-stuffing toys now. Actually Pereg only de-stuffed one toy, and one of her monkeys finally gave up the ghost although she did not even try to de-stuff it. Just left it as she had another two monkeys in her toy box. This toy and the two dinosaurs I still have not sewn up [just a bit of a seam on each one] were injured due to Pereg's habit of violently shaking them, and I had already repaired the now dead one a couple of years ago. I thought the devil was having a nap, after rushing around strewing toys all over the place, as she was so quiet, so turned to check on her and saw her on the couch with her nose inside the poor toy and which fluffy stuffing all over the place. She looked so contented with what she was doing and it was very difficult not to laugh. It is going to take ages to crawl around and pick up all the bits of stuffing - oh well, I have to pick up all her toys before I go to bed - she goes in her night crate about half an hour before I go to bed so I have that half hour to tidy up.
At least you only have one small sweet lovable little puppy, that can de-stuff her toys I had 5 hooligans that de-stuffed their toys when they were 5 months old x
She is not so small now Tina, and has yet to return to the "sweet lovable" puppy that she was when she was so tiny. Tikki is definitely a devil although she is slowly getting less of one - sometimes!
My old lad, Sam, had a stuffed gorilla that one of the kids got for him when we first got him. He loved that gorilla, it was his favourite toy - a bit of a security blanket if you like. When he was seven months old, he absolutely demolished it. From that day, to the day he left us, no stuffed toy was safe. He would shred them in less than a minute. I hope it was a 'one-off' for little Tikva and snow mountains don't become the norm
That is not the only thing she has now done for the first time. Although she can most nights go all night without needing a pee, and as she does not like to pee in her crate even though it is lined with pee pads, if she needs to go [usually around 4.30am] she wakes me by eeping - I let her out - she scurries through the bungalow into the salon and does it on a pee pad, scurries back to the bedroom and into her crate - I give her a tiny biscuit, close the door on the crate and go back to bed. So she did it again during the night - eeped, went for a pee - came back and into her crate... ...and when it is normally get-up time [as late as possible] I let her out again and give her her breakfast while I get washed and dressed. Only this morning was different. Whenever she goes in her crate I make sure the door is properly secured. There are two doors and she goes in and out of the door at the end, not the bigger one on the side. Only at get-up time she was not in her crate. The door was wide open, she had come into the salon - and had another go at demolishing the bottom shelf of one of my bamboo and wicker bookshelves. Do not ask me how she managed to get out.
Yes, but... the doors on Tikva's crate have a U shaped lever on the outside of the doors, which has to be lifted up before the little bar thingy on the top of it can be slid across through a little loop on the door to another loop beside the door, to open or close it. I know it was dark when I let her out for a pee and when she came back and into her crate, but I keep a small torch under my pillow so I can see to open and close the door. I can only think that I had not moved the little bar far enough to "lock" the door as there is no way even Tikki could reach through and do it herself... ...unless her middle name is Houdini !
She still does it although she is too big to get to the back of the fridge/freezer now let alone get under it, but she can get under the couch from the sides as there is no carpet there, although she has difficulty getting out from the middle as the front legs are on the edge of the carpet. I do not want to know what she does under there. I know that she has already torn off the thickish material under it, bits of which seem to appear everywhere, plus pulled down the lightweight material that was fixed to the wooden frame. I hear odd scrabbling noises when she is under there - call her and a little nose and two large innocent eyes appear. Will she come out? She does if I shake her "sweetie" jar but she ends up coming out on her side.
