Well, last night I woke up around 1:50am to a howling Shiva. I took a look outside, she looked fine, thought "ahh how cute, my puppy is howling at the moon" and laid back down to go to sleep. 30 min later, she was still howling off and on, so I took another look and realized that I wasn't seeing Sable. Sure that she was just out of sight and around some corner somewhere, I went to the back door...still not seeing her I slipped on some shoes to go outside...determined to find my 9 month old baby.
Sable was not in our backyard.
Of course at this point I'm thinking the worst and am certain that some terrible dog thief has come into our backyard and taken her (Who cares about the fact that Shiva's still back there, I suppose my "dog thief" only needed one Siberian Husky). A little panicked I come back inside and wake up Ryan to tell him that Sable's not in the backyard so he can come help me find our dog in the middle of the night. I stay in the backyard looking for the hole that she dug to get out of the backyard, not finding one I'm sure she's learned to scale the fence. Ryan comes back from looking the front yard and sticks her back in the yard. Our "little" puppy had at least had the decency to stay close to the house. Since I didn't find a hole in the yard, we determine that we'll figure it out at a more decent hour, leave the dogs and come back in to go to sleep.
About half an hour later...Shiva's howling again, Sable's in the front yard. We get them both inside and stick them in their crates....it's much to late to think about anything else but sleep...and we can't sleep without the peace of mind that our dogs are safe.
She got out one more time...when I woke up to feed them...I just stuck them outside with food, so sure that Sable would stay in a yard that had food....totally wrong. But after that, Ryan found the hole. We were standing outside our house at 5:15am just waiting to see what happens (I'm certain that I'm going to see a puppy head pop up at any time to start scaling the fence.) Luckily, Sable has NOT learned to scale the fence. Unluckily, basically the entirety of our back fence needs replacing due to poor craftsmanship and materials in the first place.
So, for a bit...we have no reliable backyard...which really stinks...but a bad fence in my opinion is much easier to fix than teaching a dog not to hop a fence (especially with the whole..we're still under warranty thing)
Anyway, that was our fun little experience last night and at least I know we have an alarm if Sable gets out...Shiva does NOT like to be all by herself out there!! She was sniffing all around the hole where Sable got out. It's a place where the fence boards have come unattached to the big posts...so Sable can just push and force her way out. Shiva's not big or strong enough to follow at this point...thank goodness.
Then I figured I'd follow with some pictures. The first two are a couple I took while they were being cute and quietly playing with a rope bone several nights ago.
This one to the right is one of Shiva after she gets an ear treatment. At a vet appointment several weeks ago, she was diagnosed with very dirty ears; so we were instructed to clean them with a medicated solution. Of course after each of these cleanings her ears kind of stay flat and she rolls around trying to scratch at the insides of her ears. It's really pathetic and SOO CUTE!!
The picture to the left is a picture of a bunny (I know...Captain Obvious there). These little bunnies were everywhere on the grounds of the hotel we were in in Golden, CO several weeks ago for Larissa and my cousin, Jeff's, wedding. Beautiful wedding. Then when I look at my camera, apparently all I documented was the bunnies...which you have to admit...are pretty darn cute.
As we told you yesterday, the book that was previously only given to six people, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, will be published on December 4th with all royalties being donated to Children's High Level Group charity. Scholastic has provided some new information on what the book contains, some of which can be seen below:
