“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou
Mind Triggers
The sight that greeted me when I looked up from the computer. — Photo by Pat Bean
I was just completing yesterday’s blog about Willie Nelson, when I looked up from the computer and saw my canine companion, Pepper, grinning from ear-to-ear as she sat in the middle of a devastated stuffed cat.
The dead cat. — Photo by Pat Bean
I couldn’t do anything but smile. The toy had been on sale at PetSmart, and I had bought it for her, knowing full-well I would pay the clean-up consequences. And then Willie’s quote about bigoted people not being his friend popped into my wondering-wandering mind, and I laughed, and continued laughing as I picked up the stuffing from every room in my small apartment.
Pepper is not prejudiced against cats. She’s also destroyed a big stuffed dog, a bear, a raccoon, and several ducks. She even took a bite out of my daughter’s Great Dane’s indestructible dinosaur.
Indestructible was the word my daughter used, even after I warned her that Pepper didn’t know the meaning of the word.
They look so innocent when they’re asleep. — Photo by Pat Bean
During Pepper and my first month together, she destroyed three pillows and their pillow cases, two pens (the stain of one which can still be seen on the rug in my RV) a computer cord, half a dozen pairs of socks, two of my daughter-in-law’s flip-flops and just about anything else she could get her teeth into. Fortunately, she finally learned the difference between things that were hers and things that were mine, well except for socks and these days I blame myself for leaving any within her reach.
In the meantime I, or since I moved to Tucson, also my daughter, keep her supplied with plenty of chew bones, chew toys and occasionally a stuffed animal which can give her days of fun, and me days of picking up stuffing.
But as I said, she’s not prejudiced. She’ll chew up any stuffed animal.
The Wondering Wanderer’s blog pick of the day.
Bean’s Pat: Alastair’s Blog http://tinyurl.com/b4ggr4t How to Wash a Cat. I got great belly laughs from this one. I hope you laugh at it as much as I did. Laughter’s good for the soul. And I’m not prejudiced against cats, just for the record.
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My sweet Dixie (a mini-doxie short hair) has a box of toys, and although she will lie there and chew, she doesn’t often disassemble! ROFL. Doxies, by nature, are diggers though, so my yard is rather holey! And as long as we as human pack members, are willing to pick up after them, our canine pack members will continue to entertain! 🙂 Great post!
O-M-G – What a Mess – seek and destroy I must – ha! Happy Tuesday:)
It’s never ending. I pick it up and 10 minutes later I do it all over again, well until she naps.
My previous dog didn’t chew, or dig, but boy was she bossy. I’m afraid I’m a pushover for my canine companions.
Haha love that 😀
Thank you for adding my blog as your pick of the day
You’re welcome. And thanks for writing such a fun blog.
A pleasure … I think it was fitting with your “ripper” of a post 😉
Sounds like me when I was a kid….. Jen is glad I don’t do that so much anymore.
Pepper’s 13 months old, Rumpy. But something tells me this might not be a habit she is going to outgrow. She gets too much pleasure out of it, which is why her owner keeps her supplied with stuffed animals and chew toys.
Molly chews too, Pat, and she’s 6+ yrs. old. I got some tea tree oil spray, which tastes terrible, and am working with her to try to train her not to chew her bed. I think she’s getting the idea.
Since Pepper’s only 13 months old, I think she’s doing pretty good on discovering what she’s allowed to chew or not, but I sure I sure have lost a lot of socks in the meantime. They’re something she can’t resist and she’s sure encouragin me to put them right in the dirty closed basket, and behind clothes doors, as soon as I take them off.
Well, girls just want to have fun…And if you happen to be a cat, raccoon, dinosaur, or sock, and you just happen to be available…
I always want to have fun Kathy.