What Did You Do, Morrie?
When Morrie got into his cage the minute I came into the room, I suspected something was wrong.
Is something wrong, Morrie?
Did you do something naughty?
Have you been a bad boy?
Oh, oh, oh. What did you do, Morrie?
Did you make a mess?
Did you chew up a roll of toilet paper?
Did you open up the closet door and chew up thirty rolls of toilet paper?
Bye, Morrie!
Before he decided to leave the room for awhile, Morrie taught me some lessons. This is what I learned:
Always secure the closet doors before you leave the room.
Put everything up high!
Especially toilet paper!
And be sure to put your shoes away. This is my favorite pair.
I wonder where the other one is? Oh, that’s right. Morrie ate it!
Morrie? Going out again?
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It’s so hard for a young dog to learn all the rules!
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It’s so hard for an old owner to teach the all the rules! Ha. know you have the same problem. Are your two being better?
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Morrie, like our Bonnie, is misunderstood. Pawns in game of life.
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Oh, you indulgent fathers make it hard on us mothers!!!!
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Ahh the delights of life with a Scottie 🐉 They are such charming rascals.
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There are three other people lakeside who have Scotties and I’ve already met them all! When I saw the last one with her Scottie, I remarked that i had one and she said, “Oh, are you Judy?” News travels fast lakeside! Ha.
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Scottie owners need one another. Our dogs are so … manipulative. Tricky. Funny. Cute. Adorable. They keep us in our place and we need other owners just to stay remember that we ARE the owners and they ARE the dogs. Bonnie, our Scottie, does not see it this way.
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Ha
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Awww – why does he have a cage?
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Morrie is new to my house. I have two much bigger and older dogs and he tends to follow one of them around or play chase games where he sometimes doesn’t watch where he’s going. When I had him neutered, the vet said he had to stay still and away from the other dogs, Also, that he shouldn’t jump up or down from furniture, so I empties a room of furniture, had an extra metal gate installed so he had a small exercise and pooping area and put his bed in that room. The other dogs can visit from either end, through the gates, but he is encouraged not to be too rowdy. Diego, one of my other dogs, was crate trained and loves his cage, where he only sleeps at night. He sometimes sneaks into the house during the day and goes right for his cage to curl up. If I pass by, he rattles the door to encourage me to clasp it! So, I decided to put Morrie’s bed in a cage as well. I leave the door open so he can come and go, but it is handy to have him conditioned not to fear a cage. With three dogs and lots of workmen, it is often necessary to have somewhere to sequester them for a short time while the men work. Mexicans tend to be frightened of dogs, for good reason, as most people have watchdogs. Phew. Long answer!
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Awww I remember when my dog was this naughty… I kind of miss coming home to re-decorations or disasters! Kept things interesting 😉
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What an optimist!!!
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LOL!
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Dogs are always such a handful, but they’re such characters it’s what makes them so lovable! My Old English Sheepdog used to be such a terror – his favourite thing to eat was kitchen roll and he would always tear up newspaper if it was on the floor.
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And then one day, they just grow out of it. We hope.
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Well, Shadow has (more or less), but that’s five years on!
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My neighbors in AZ call the cage a condo. When they say, “Go to your condo,” the dog trots right in.
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Ha. Think I’ll steal that. Someone asked why he had to be in a cage.The point is if you provide it early enough, they want to be in it. It is security. Diego loves his. If I put it outside, he would climb into it to sleep!
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Ha! This is (unfortunately) so familiar and your photos are an absolutely perfect documentary. Don’t you love how dogs feel guilty when they’ve done something bad – but they do it anyway?
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And you can tell they know they did something bad, in spite of what manuals tell us. He looks kind of scruffy in these pictures because he hasn’t had a bath in a few weeks. Right after this, the vet said it was okay to bathe him but I should do it myself, so–off to the bathtub in a swim suit, Morrie in the nude. What an adventure, and didn’t he have fun shaking off all that water in an enclosed environment? The water was brown by time we finished, Morrie rolled and rolled on the fluffy bathroom rug and grabbed a towel in his teeth and brought it over for me to rub him dry.
He is so soft today. Good dog!!
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OMG…..that is so cute. There must be a reason you have Morrie. XXxX 🙂 🙂 🙂 z
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30 rolls of tp…..What a mess that must have been. Morrie was just having fun. 😀
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Very cute dog! They can be a handful but oh, so worth it.
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He is so cute, naah, he can do no wrong. LOL
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You know if Mother was around, Morrie would be perfectly trained. I wish I had been aware of how she did it.
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Lots of attention, lots of time. She sent us off to school and then fed them buttered toast and lay down on the couch with them and read a book, teaching them tricks in between chapters!!
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Hmm, thanks for my questions posted on your previous “Morrie’s missadventure..with Toilet Paper”..
So good that you love him anyways ! And this too shall pass and you will have a happy little cuddle bunny.
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We are taking a nap now…After about 15 minutes of shifting, licking, walking over sore places, breathing in my face, stretched across my neck, he is finally curled into a ball by my side. If he were awake, he’d be between me and the computer screen, for sure.
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Is he ,he or she? nvm She is so cuteeeeeeeeee
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She is a he, Rheorenz…
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