Well, our dog Kit Kat is not exactly as easy going as I thought. About 10 days ago, she picked up our TV remote with her teeth and damaged it enough that is had to be taped back together. Last Tues. she decided to do the same thing with my cell phone. Of course, this time the cell phone was pretty much toast. Then she did the same thing to my CoolPix camera (which I loved!) and destroyed it. On Sat. night she got through our hard sliding door and peed on my side of the bed. OK...WTF is happening?!?!
After some conversation with other people and some thought of my own, I think that she is attached to John in such a way as she is trying to replace me. She was marking my side of the bed and trying to say that it was hers. She was destroying things that she saw as mine.
To remedy this we have bought her a sweaky toy piggy plush toy and a squeaky toy ball. She is no longer so bored, as she will bring the pig to be thrown and she will fetch it for us and we do this for a while. And I am now giving her treats while I hold them in my mouth. That way she sees that I am the pack leading female and I am feeding her from my mouth as would happen in a normal pack. Those treats don't seem that bad! LOL
I am hoping that this behaviour fixes itself soon, as I can't have this happening in even tighter quarters once we leave. I can say that I was stressed on it on Fri. and Sat. but now a few days later I think it is kind of funny.
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