A Doggie Tale

Four years ago we adopted a golden retriever/cocker spaniel mix from the Colorado Golden Retriever Rescue. She really is a good dog, well behaved and pretty mellow most of the time. She does, however, have her moments. She does not like being left home alone. After going thru obedience training and all the things you do to change bad habits, it's the one thing that just will not be changed. I believe it's that cocker spaniel stubbornness in her. Anyway, we have to laugh at some of the episodes we have had with her and in our efforts to try to find ways to be to leave her at home, we tried putting her in her kennel one day. Unfortunately, we didn't think about the positioning of the kennel and never dreamed that what happened would happen.

When we arrived back home, she was out of the kennel and the kennel was beyond repair. She had torn thru the little openings on the sides and totally distroyed the kennel - BUT, how? She managed to drag my husband's favorite quilt off the back of his chair (which was next to where we had placed the kennel) little by little pulling and tugging the quilt thru the openings on the side of the kennel until the entire flannel quilt was inside. YEP...the entire quilt and it was not a small one either. The quilt actually survived most of the ordeal with just a few areas that needed applique to fix the holes she had put in it.

We have since learned to never position the kennel anywhere near a chair or anything that might possibly be able to be pulled thru the openings and never, never put a quilt anywhere near it either. I have since made her her own quilt, which, by the way, she absolutely loves, but she still goes in her kennel anytime we leave the house.