So much for the flirt pole

 

Ember managed to wriggle her way into the pantry bathroom Friday morning.  That's where I store her toys that are out of rotation, among other things.  She was intent on destroying an 8 pack of paper towels, though.  I sacrificed the flirt pole.  I didn't intend to do this; I only intended to distract her and get her away from the paper towels.

Sigh.  She grabbed it by the pole, not the flirty lure, and ran off with it.  The photo is her gnawing on the human grip, which she made short work of in the first five minutes.  I did rescue the paper towels and the TP, which were both still in their plastic wrap.

Friday turned into a challenge day with my highly energetic too smart for her own good pup!  She has continued her assault of the A/C insulation and the leftover cable wires.

See the shiny silver parts of the coax cable she has been stripping?  Yeah.  Those sharp things in her mouth are wire cutters.

I don't know if you can see the insulation fragments on the ground in the photo.

A new X-Pen is supposed to arrive next week.  Meanwhile, I don't want to call out the HVAC folks to replace the insulation until it gets here.  Or if something she does breaks it down!

I have been taking her out on leash but dropping my end of the leash at times to do things like pick up her poo.  Ember seems to take advantage of every chance to chew on something that she should not.

During puppy nap #1, I went out to the hardware store to purchase the longer staples, then stopped on the way back to get my hair cut.  It was driving me nuts! 

Saturday morning it's looking as though we have a similarly challenging day ahead.  The hours before sunrise are the most challenging by far.

Well!  Saturday morning, I got her outside to pee and poo, and then we were inside trying to keep her occupied until it would get light enough to toss the balls to chase in the back yard.  I fed her breakfast, then started trying a few training exercises, which is what I usually do during this waiting for the sun to rise time frame.  

In this process, I opened up the gate to the family room.  I was thinking that we could continue to train developing hot zones in that room.

She went all excited puppy on me, and when she even calmed a little it was to work on stripping the fixes off the leather couch.  I put her leash on and got her back out of the room.  Then as I was trying to put the gate back up, she broke the sliding door to the basement!  Yikes!  That's where the laundry room, i.e. the cat's area is.  

Pandemonium ensued.  I managed to rescue at least part of the cat's food and to close the laundry room door.  Then Ember was loose in this big open room full of "stuff".  She found my triathlon gear, CD's and cases for CD's, the photo box, well, imagine your own "junk room".  And I am at the top of the stairs staring at the broken door.  I enticed Ember into her X-Pen while I taped the door back together, but you know she's eventually going to strip that tape off.

We have made it (somehow) past the pandemonium and fed me some breakfast.  Ember is in her crate for Puppy nap #1 of Saturday.  I am heading out to the grocery store for blueberries.  Pray for us here in Emberville.  It was named after Hurricane Ember, after all.

Oh, but the good news in all this?  It's been a week since the last time I had to put on a bandage for a new tooth induced wound.

Life is good.  Spark on!