Laundry List
Yesterday I came home to a broken lamp. It was, after all, just a matter of time. The finish on the end table is scratched off from Cheyenne standing on it and leaping off it. She stands up there because she can see out the window better from the table. Often the lamp will get knocked off the table in the process. Yesterday the lamp finally endured one leap too many. So in light of this incident, I thought it might be fun to provide a list of all the things that Cheyenne has destroyed. Highlights below:
- The aforementioned lamp.
- The aforementioned end table that now requires a well placed doily.
- She has scratched the paint off of the backdoor and our bedroom door too, and chewed the door frame around both these doors.
- She tore up the carpet in the bedroom.
- Pens.
- Eaten countless, countless pairs of shoes (how many times did it take for me to realize I needed to pick them up?)
- Dug hole after hole.
- Ate a hole in the ottoman and pulled the stuffing out.
- Ate pyoben gel.
- 2 pairs of sunglasses and 1 pair of glasses.
- She stole my purse off the counter and pulled the medicine bottles out—thankfully the child proof caps were also Cheyenne-proof, although not completely chew-proof.
- Ate an entire loaf of banana bread.
- Pulled the entire comforter from the bed into her crate and shredded it.
- Shrews, many shrews.
- Books.
- The latte I accidentally left on the coffee table-which she promptly carried around the house and spilled all over–before eating the cup.
- A bluetooth headset.
- A tube of caulk. (Don’t think this didn’t leave permanent damage).
- Box of Dots.
- An entire bag of cough drops. This occurred one day after the pyoben gel incident and required back-to-back phone calls to the vet.
As I write this list, I realize how severe her seperation anxiety was and much confidence she has gained over the years. She has healed alot. I have decided to think of these things as tangible reminders of her progress and how far we have come since that first day we brought her home.