I let Amber and Molly in this morning and discovered a trail of drinking water bottles and labels all over the front yard. Amber had only been able to open one of them and get the label off another, but I cleaned up the yard and put the rest of the bottles that were in the open plastic wrapping into the garage fridge.
I talked to my husband about our closing the garage door to discourage her from rummaging around in there, but he rightly pointed out that she’ll go through the cat door when the door is closed…
Our front yard has become ‘discovery land’ since we adopted Amber last May. So far, I’ve gone out to find –
- sticks of all shapes, sizes and lengths
- old toys Amber found from previous dogs!
- a full length metal shovel
- my dust mop – with the mop part shredded all over the yard
- the full drinking water bottles today
- gourds I was storing to paint
- buckets of all shapes and sizes, empty and full
- rat catchers from the pest company
- an entire rose bush we threw off the edge of the civilized part of the front yard
- my decorative ducks from the front porch
- a couple of small statues from the front porch
- an entire planter full of demolished flowers from the front porch
- a whole plant from one of the flower planters
- HOLES dug here and there (we DID get her to quit digging in the two empty planters where we’ll plant new rose bushes this spring, thanks to an idea from my SIL
I THINK that’s the list so far. She’s very inventive and seems to be tireless in her efforts to collect things in the front yard. If she continues, my cleaning up after her may be the only form of exercise I need!
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