Okay, so at first I thought it was kind of funny. Yes, I've gotten angry a few times but really it's been our fault for leaving things for our pooch to chew on. Now...it's getting to be re-god-damn-diculous!

Every day when I come home from work at lunch to take the little pooch out I get a new surprise. Every day I have to wonder what kind of disaster I'll see. What has she eaten/destroyed? There has been a mess more often than not, and that's not right! This is what I came home to yesterday at lunch:

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I did yell at her and then I broke out the vacuum cleaner, which she hates and frankly is punishment enough to her, but otherwise she just doesn't learn. How do I know this you ask? Because when I came back home later in the evening she had shredded a paper pamphlet I left on the living room table...I'd say no lesson had been learned, wouldn't you?

I even considered how bad it would be to start putting her back into the crate when we leave but that would just be cruel. How would you like to be free to stretch your paws and lay wherever you're comfortable and then all of the sudden you are cooped up in a crate for hours? I don't think I can do it. BUT...I have decided that it's time for obedience classes.

I have signed Lucy up for "Basic Training" at the facility where our little Nola took her puppy classes. I'll admit, I wanted to take Lucy sooner and I think she probably would have benefited from classes as a younger puppy but I just wasn't ready to go back there so soon after little Nola's death. I know that's kind of lame but that was our place, it's where we spent every Saturday learning and playing and bonding. Plus I really didn't feel like talking about the accident with all of the instructors that used to dote over Nola.

I think now I'm ready to share that with Lucy because lord knows, she will benefit greatly from it and it won't do me so bad either! We start in March and it can't come fast enough! Who knows what we'll lose/what will be destroyed before our classes start...