Thursday, 17 April 2008

We have lovely toys but a bag of shredded paper, now there’s a challenge……




The pups have a mountain of toys to play with, and to be fair they play very nicely most of the time but they both have a passion for chewing cardboard. They have gradually chewed the full side off a box of bottled lager that’s in the kitchen, but it’s preferable to them chewing the units whilst I’m out, they attacked the box that the new bed was delivered in before I’d closed the door to the deliverymen but today they have found a new game. In preparation for our move to Spain we have been going through old bills and paperwork and shredding what we don’t need to keep, so we have several bags of shredded paper waiting to go out when the recycling is next due.
As everywhere is still covered in snow this morning, the pups aren’t so keen on going out to run around so they have found a new game. Brinkley sneaks under the dining table and round to a bag at the back where they think I can’t see them and takes 2 or 3 strands of paper and then runs into the lounge and shares them with Brandy, where they are happily chewing through them.
Now cute as this may seem, I’m sure that it’s not the healthiest of diet for them, but try catching them – they are now fast on their paws oh, and suddenly they are happy to go outside when it means they can avoid being caught. So, I now have to find somewhere else to put all the bags. I’ve already had to put all the packing boxes in the office out of their way, and these are about to be joined by a load of shredded paper. Somehow, I think we’re going to have to pack the whole house into one room to stop the dogs eating the packaging.

Brandy is the clever one in all this, he lets Brinkley carry out the raid on the bags and get in to trouble for it, but then Brandy takes the shredding from Brinkley – but he was caught on camera with the evidence!

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