Today in ring one, we have Azza, half desert dog, half
beaver! Having decided that reducing dog toys to a pile of slobbery lumps each
exactly two square centimeters in size was becoming too pedestrian, too every
day, Azza graduated herself to a new level of destruction: chewing a melon-sized
hole in a treasured, handmade bed cover that I got in Indonesia almost 20 years
ago and a companion hole in the brand new sheets below it. Azza now gets to sit
in her crate when I take a shower in the mornings, a crate which no longer
contains any bedding since she chews that up too.
In ring two, we have the little fookin’ orange devil known
as Kinky! Kinky is fascinated with counters, or to be more specific, with the
ease with which he can move things off of them. For his latest accomplishment,
this morning he fished two hardboiled eggs out of a bowl on the counter where I
had left them to cool, and rapidly moved one of them onto the kitchen floor! The
other rolled out of his reach behind the cutting boards, thankfully preserving it for its intended end
as my lunch.
In ring three, we have Mimi! Mimi’s trick today was to bring
upstairs the last few scraps of eggshell and egg white in order to show me her
treasure, which almost certainly fell like manna from heaven directly on top of
her head since she knows about the orange devil’s counter surfing techniques.
If she hadn’t preserved those last bits to show me, I would have never
known what happened to that egg since she hoovered up every scrap of it! At
least eggs are digestible and nutritious.
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