Damn Dog

The cold weather must have but a bug up Rose's behind. She's been quite the pest the last couple of days.

First she resumed her quest against our cable connection. She'd chewed through it in the back yard before, but this time she not only managed to pull it out of the ground, she also ripped the cable box off the wall of the house. I guess the loose cable that the painters failed to tack back to the wall was just too tempting. After I finally managed to find my tools and spar splicing kit, I repaired the cable -- again -- and it's not better then ever.

Yesterday, she made a hole through two old rotted planks behind the house and took off into the park. Tina, one of our dog neighbors, picked her up and took her on a walk with her dogs. We picked her up across the street at our other neighbors.

Then today, she escaped again -- twice! The first time was when Jfer was going for a walk with Homer and picked up someone else's loose dog (maybe there is something in the air) across the street. Rose heard the comotion and felt left out. So she chewed here way out through a couple of other rotten boards to join the comotion. I fixed that hole over lunch, but she made another one, right next to it, during the afternoon and ended up at another neighbor's.

I think her backyard priviledges will be severely courtailed until we get a new fence. It'll be the tether until then.