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OK, so after the afternoon I had with Abby, last night my husband and I were eating dinner at the dinning room table. He had his phone on the table while we were eating. We finished dinner, and he left the table while I was cleaning up the table and Kitchen.  I did not see his phone on the table during dinner or after so I was just doing my thing. Later on, about an hour, I was walking down the hall, and met my husband in the doorway to our room, and in his hand was his phone with the silicone chewed off the plastic Otter Cover. He found the phone in her kennel while she was chewing on it.

So the next morning, my husband took a picture of Abby with everything she chewed up yesterday.  She knew she did wrong, and it shows in the pictures. So he emailed the pictures to Otter Box, and requested a new silicone cover for his phone again.  She has been on a roll lately, not sure what her problem is, but holly cow. 

I am a little late in getting this posted, it is now Monday, and in the mail today was a brand new complete Otter Box cover for my husbands phone.  Boy talk about customer service, they sure stand behind their products.

I just can’t believe it, I had to make a trip to the bank today, and I gave the dogs a treat before I left even though I was only going to be gone for maybe 15 minutes.

Well I was right, just about 15 minuets, when I walked in the door, I just about had a heart attack.  Abby had gotten up on the kitchen counter, and with her paws she knocked over a heavy carnival glass container that I keep my utensils in I use for cooking. Not only that, but she knocked it over on my glass top stove, I was amazed that neither of them broke.  Along with that I had on the counter another one of my fresvac containers, and in the inside was another container with the lid to it, with of course, a silicone seal.  Yes she got the lid with the silicone seal, and a silicone baster. I think that now makes 5 basters she has gotten at 6.00 a pop, a brand new zester she chewed the handle to the point of no return, my thongs that had silicone on them for my no scratch pans, they are destroyed need new ones, one of my brand new spatula, thank goodness that was ok.

You know I just don’t know how she got these things or why. These things were way back up against the wall in the far back of the counter, so she really had to reach to get things overturned, and then out of the containers. You know, these things have been on the counter for years, and she has never bothered them before, so I thought nothing of it, I guess I will now.   

To all my followers, sorry I have not posted anything new this past week, but with the passing of my mother in law, and trying to get the memorial service taken care of, as my father in law is 90 yrs old, it has left me no time right now to post a new article. 

How ever last Friday Abby was in one of her moods.  My husband came home from work, and I had made his lunch.  I put everything away except the butter dish that was out of butter, and I wanted to wash it, so I left it on the counter.  My husband and I enjoyed his lunch, and when he got ready to leave to go back to work, I looked at the kitchen, and did not see anything that I thought Abby would get into, so I walked my husband to his car outside.

When I came back in, here was the butter dish on the floor all Clean. She had licked all the remaining butter out of the dish.  Thank goodness that I had bought some new floor mats from Costco, as she had pulled the butter dish on the floor mats, so it did not break, thank goodness.

 That evening she was on a roll, she got into several pieces of mail, out of a wire basket on the desk, how I will never know. I had put a steak knife in the sink, and that was the only thing in the sink. I had no idea she would go after the steak knife, but oh no, was I wrong, she got that and chewed the handle , thank goodness she did not cut herself on the blade of the knife.

Yesterday, I ran to the bank, and came right back, I was gone a whole 15-20 minutes max, in that time she put her paws up on the kitchen counter and got a plastic salad fork that I had just washed and put there to dry, anyway she got it and luckily she did not chew on it, I found it laying on the floor.  Well then I looked in the sink, and sure enough she had gotten another lid to my Freshvac set of containers.  I went to the patio door and looked outside and, there laying in the gravel was my lid.  I walked outside, in the rain, and picked it up, to my surprise she did not eat the silicone out of the lid. However she did break off a little piece of the plastic, but I think it will still work. I think because it was laying that side down and, she could not turn it over to get at the silicone, which amazes me, as she has always gotten them before no matter how they have been laying on the ground.

I have called the Freshvac Company regarding my issues with the silicone seals for my lids.  They are sending me everything I need at no charge. Another company that stands behind their product.  I told them how I lost the silicone seals and the lady that was helping me laughed and laughed, she had never heard of a dog eating the silicone seals before. I told her I had gone thru four of the silicone basting brushes, and all the phone covers just to name a few, then she really starting laughing. Thank you Freshvac.

Last Friday, Abby was in one of her “Trouble Moods”.  I had some errands to run Friday morning. I needed to go to the grocery store to get some things to make Chile Verde for dinner. I also got some dog treats, and put the small bag in the cabinet and closed the door. Later that day, it came time to get my Crockpot out of the same cabinet, where I put the dog treats. Well I needed both hands to carry the Crockpot to the counter, so I did not shut the cabinet door right then.  I got so involved in making the Chile Verde; I forgot that I left the cabinet door open.  I was cooking away, and all of a sudden I heard a big bang, looked in that direction, and did not see anything, except the dog dish was disturbed. I kept cooking away, but something told me I should go and look for Abby.  I went to the patio door, and there she was outside chomping away on the new bag of dog treats. She had ripped open the bag and was having a hay day; fortunately I got to her in time before she ate too many of them.

About an hour later, I was in my office working away, and I thought to myself, self maybe you should go and check on Abby.  Sure enough, I walked down the hall, and there in a million pieces were about four plastic bags, I had forgotten to put the bags away, what a mess that was.  I picked up that mess and, went back into the office, but I checked on her about every 20 minutes or so and she was ok. 

Well, I went out to check on dinner, and was walking down the hall, back to the office, Abby saw me coming and made a beeline out the doggie door.  So off I ran to see what she had, and sure enough, she went into the bathroom, and got a lint roller off the counter.  She did not want to give it up, she ran and ran, back and forth in the yard, and would not give it up, it was quite the battle, but in the end I won, got it before she could destroy it.