Troublemaker

You have to love the things that a puppy will do...or else you'd probably just go crazy. So yesterday I leave work early so I can drop off my Kia to get some new tires (when you can't get up a hill in bad weather because you have no tread on your tires, and other cars are going by honking and flipping you off, its time for new tires). So Jackie leaves directly from school and meets me there, and then we head home. We get home and Jackie walks over to Ellie's kennel. This kennel is like a camping kennel, all canvas and mesh. We got it awhile back to take when we went on the road because it folded down flat, making it easier to pack than the normal kennel that was pretty bulky. We really like this kennel, it worked well, looked decent, and was easy to travel with.

Jackie arrives at the kennel, zips open the top, and exclaims, "where is she?" Ellie was not in her kennel. At first we were thinking this some sort of Houdini dog, or she just disappeared being as small as she was. Then we looked at the front of the kennel...

That's right, our little 3 pound dog with her little puppy teeth decided she had enough of spending her day in the little kennel and chewed her way out. Unbelievable, I still have a hard time picturing her doing this...I only wish I had a camcorder on her so I could have seen what it looked like. After the moment of shock wore off, we start searching for the little troublemaker, and find her upstairs - which we really should of known considering she knows how to up stairs but not down them yet.

So last night was filled with an unexpected trip down to the Goshen Petco to pick up a new kennel, one not made of canvas and mesh but of plastic with a metal gate. Hopefully the little escape artist doesn't learn how to get out of this one. So to add to the list of things learned this week with the new puppy...our dog will eat mesh to escape.