Sneaky Shadow

Sally from Boston sent some furniture to Kathy.  She got a solid cherry bedroom set and another leather couch to match the leather recliner.  She has quite an ensemble down in her living area.  Shadow thinks so much of her arrangement that he adopted the new couch as his new bed.

Well that didn't sit too well with Kath to have this little gray furry creature take over the new couch.  She and I had a conversation about how to keep him off her new stuff.  I decided to put a gate at the top of the stairs to limit his wandering.

It seems to have worked, he tried it once but it was locked shut with a "barrel bolt"  and with no thumbs, he can't get it open.  Problem solved.

Kathy did take pity on the poor creature and bought him a new bed.  When we placed it on the floor, he knew it was for him right away,  now he guards the fish tank IN STYLE!

Happy dog, though he may not look it.

Escape Artist!

Kathy came upstairs from her lair and announced "Shadow" has gotten loose tonight.  I had just re screened her downstairs smoking area and re opened the dog door so he could go into the fenced off side yard.  There is a motion sensor light out there and I notice from my upstairs window when my pooch is nosing around outside.

Tonight, however, Shadow was determined to go after some creature out in the darkness and he scratched a hole through the new screen and made his way into the back yard.  I came downstairs and went out on the back deck to look at the damage.  I think the solution might be to put 4 foot high white lattice along the inside of the screen room so he can not have access to the vulnerable screen.