Yesterday, I was going out to the deck to pick up a few things, and I looked out into the yard to see the dogs running, and there in Abby’s mouth was a mouse. I ran out to her and told her to drop it, and of course she took off running with this mouse hanging out of her mouth. I kept yelling at her to drop it, and only after I got her cornered did she drop the mouse, well, she took off for the other end of the yard, and low, and behold there was another dead mouse, she picked up and started running with it in her mouth, so I was yelling at her to drop this one, she did, then ran back to get the other one, which she did, with me running up to her to get her to drop that one again. Well, she did, and off to get the other one again, got her to drop that one and off for the other one, well as you can imagine here I am running back, and forth in the yard between the two dead mice, to keep her from eating them.

I was getting so upset with her, I got her cornered again, without a mouse in her mouth, and told her to sit, at this point she knew she was in big trouble, and she took off for the house. I got her in and locked her doggie door, and waited for my husband to come home to take care of the mice.

 I am glad she got the mice, we don’t need mice in the yard or in the house, but I did not want her to eat them, and that is just what she was planning when I first saw her.  I was upset with her for not listening to me; she was on a mission to get these mice, and was not going to do what I said.  All the time this was going on Maggie knew Abby was in trouble, and she was not going to stick around, she took off for the house, and did not come back out.

I was so upset with her for not listening to me, I did not even pet her the rest of the afternoon, and you know she knew I was upset, as she kept coming to me sitting in front of me, and putting out her paw for me to shake, and I would not comply with her wishes, so she would go off and sulk. This morning I woke up to her snuggled up with me. Of course I have forgiven her, I just hope she is not a mouser now, for me that would not be a good thing. 

My last post, I wrote that Abby had been a good girl for about a week; boy did I speak to soon.  That night, I was reading the newspaper, having a good evening; my husband said he was going into the office for a while.  All of a sudden, I realized that I wanted to show him an email I received that afternoon. I jumped out of my chair to get to the office before he started racing, put the newspaper up so Abby would not get it, and ran to the office, but I forgot about my phone. I caught him just in time, we were enjoying a good laugh at the email, I shut off my computer and went back to the family room to finish reading my paper, and there on the floor was my phone, with the silicone cover gone.  I showed my husband, and he and I agreed that he would contact Otter Box, and that we would pay for a new cover. They have been great in replacing all the covers that Abby has chewed up.  Well, he did contact them, and they replaced my cover at no charge, what a company. My hat is off to them for their great Costumer Service.  A big Thank You.

The next day I did my walking on the treadmill.  We have some three pound weights that I keep in the cup holders on the treadmill, and when I walk I put them on the windowsill next to me until I need them. Well I forgot to put them back, and while I was gone she got one of them, and chewed the rubber handle off the weight.  When I came home I found part of the handle on the floor, and it took me a while to figure out where it came from. I could not believe that she got the weight off the windowsill, and carried it across the room to chew the handle off.

Later that same night, I walked into our bedroom, and I now have a habit of looking in her kennel when I walk by it to make sure she does not have something she, should not have in her kennel. Well, I was shocked when I looked in there.  Here was a box of Kleenex, with the top and side chewed off and Kleenex all over her kennel. I picked it up, and went in and showed my husband, and at that time, I thought it was the box, that sits on a table between our recliners, and that is what I told my husband. I told him I was not sure how she got it as I was sitting right there the whole time.  Well, a bit later, I went back into our room and that is when I realized where she got the box of Kleenex.  She has learned to open the drawers on our nightstands, and this box was in the drawer on my husband’s side of the bed. Never a dull moment in our house with Abby around. She is so sweet and loving, she just gets into trouble now and then mostly, every day!!

You know, its been a little over a week now, and Abby has been a good girl. She has just gotten into a little bit of trouble, nothing big. She has gotten stuff out of the sink, has tried to rip up some of my magazines. I think because the weather has been so nasty, you see, she hates thunderstorms, she hides any place she can, and shakes and shakes, poor thing. She really does break my heart when I see her like that. She really has a hard time on the 4th of July; she hides and shakes for a week or so. Our vet gave us some pills to settle her down a bit during that time.  They do seem to help, but at the same time I hate to see her all drugged up, Abby and I just can’t seem to win.

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All last week I was busy planning and organizing my mother in laws memorial service, and low, and behold Abby was a very good girl all last week. That is until we got to this past Sunday. I had been very tired from the past week, and was not sure what I was going to fix for dinner.  I had a steak in the freezer so I thought that would be good for dinner, so I put it on the BBQ, got a salad made while it was cooking. 

I put the cooked steak on the table for us, I turned by back for just a second to put something on the counter in the kitchen, turned around to find Abby with her feet on the chair and our steak in her mouth.  I yelled at her to drop it, and off she went with steak in her mouth running for the doggie door.  She did drop it before she made it outside, but of course it was on the carpet, full of what ever, and was ruined. 

It’s a good thing that I had some Bratwurst sausages in the fridge, so I was able to save the dinner, thing is I really wanted that steak. Abby has never, ever gotten up on the table like that before, this was a first, so now I know that I have to be careful of what I put on the table, or at least make sure I sit right down to protect my dinner.

This past Sunday I had my whole family over for a combined birthday party for my husband, and my two sons in laws.  Well, all my grandchildren were there also, and the little five year old had a little purse, and inside the purse was a little stuffed monkey. She and, her younger sister are into monkeys. Well, I forgot to tell her to make sure she did not leave the purse laying around, especially open where Abby could get to it.  Well, Abby did get the purse, and the monkey inside. 

We were all sitting in the family room, when my daughter said “mom Maggie just went outside with something in her mouth”, so I got up, and went outside to see what she had, and sure enough Maggie had the little monkey in her mouth.  Now Maggie is not at all like Abby. I told her to put it down and she did, however Abby grabbed it, and off she went, on a run with this little torn up monkey in her mouth.

Well, I kept telling her to drop it, and of course she did not want to right away, she wanted to play keep away.  I finally got it from her, but she had pulled the legs off the monkey.  So I showed it to my granddaughter, and she looked at me, and said, with a sad little face “ you better go, and show that to my mom and dad”.  Well, you can imagine, I felt so bad. On my way back to the house, my son came out, and asked me if Abby had gotten the monkey. I said yes, and showed it to him, I told him I would replace it, all he could do was laugh, and told me not to worry about it, as she has a ton of monkeys, and would not miss this one at all.  Come to find out, she has not missed it, but I still feel bad. I am still going to see if I can find one just like this one, and replace it for her. Abby try’s to be good, she just can’t help herself.

Well, here it is Monday the 3^rd of May, I was in the middle of making my husbands lunch, while waiting for my Father in law to show up, so he could pick up his truck. My dogs went nuts, and I knew my father in law was here, so I picked up everything I had out to make his lunch, and put it in the cabinet. I did this so Abby would not get the lunchmeat, bread etc, however I forgot to shut the doors to the cabinet. Well, the sliced Swiss cheese fell out of the cabinet on to the counter, and I bet you can guess who got it.

Its funny I did not even miss the cheese until I went to put it on the sandwich, and then realized it was gone. The wrapper was out in the backyard; there must have been a fourth of a package left in it. That will teach me to make sure I shut the doors, from now on.