I unfortunately didn’t take photos of most of the Christmas ornament devastation described in the below poem, except for the one unfortunate angel found in the yard today, so I will make do with more of today’s latest. The pieces of the cushion shown , now collected, were spread over the entire lawn and patio. My day’s exercise was collecting them all and stuffing them back into their cushion, then throwing it away. Luckily the garbage had not been collected so I unstuffed a bit for photo purposes. She also chewed the ties off most of the chair cushions in the garden and the corner off the cushion for the lounge chair.The bedroom duvet is my newest. This is a very recent thing, destroying bedding. Trying to decide what to do. To be fair to Coco, I think most of this devastation is created by Zoe. Pasiano says it is because she’s the smallest and trying to prove her moxie. In that case, she has succeeded.
Bad Holiday Attitudes
My energetic puppies are meddlesome at best.
They seek to alter their milieu with destructive zest.
They create a fizzy ambience on patio and lawn
by spreading lawn chair cushion stuffing all hither and yon.
They parade my Christmas banner throughout my lower yard,
sowing its bits and shreds between the onions and the chard.
No matter at what altitude we hang the decorations,
they seem able to reach them to appease their mastications.
They shred what ornaments they find on tabletop and trees.
climbing up and leaping at whatever they can seize.
A dismembered Santa Claus lies nestled in the hay
where once slept baby Jesus, who’s securely tucked away
beneath the new poinsettia, sadly unidentifiable.
His restoration is, I fear, now totally unviable.
So, unless my naughty canine friends speed up their maturations,
Next year I think that I’ll attempt way fewer decorations.
Prompt words today are fizzy, meddlesome, altitude, milieu, onion and banner.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Naughty puppies 🐶
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Yes, but the pair of them are adorable. And it could be worse. Merry, my nine-year-old “puppy,” when she was around a year old, not only chewed everything but then swallowed. She had to have 3 operations, including one to remove a chunk of a cloth doll wearing a zippered dress.
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Oh no. That truly is much worse, so when I think of what could have happened, I guess I have to be grateful. Thanks for sharing your story.
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Exercise, exercise, crates when busy, and chew toys is my suggestion…
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Thanks.. I was just thinking I hadn’t seen their chew toys in awhile.. Wonder if they buried them?
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This might be helpful, The Pet Parent Guide..petspeoplepoints.com
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Thanks… are you Connie? I thought I was doing so well in training my dogs and then bam..crazy behavior.
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They’re young still. They have lots of energy and much curiosity of the world right now, and that sparks what you call mischievously not good behavior. Good luck. I love the photos of your pets you posts, makes me smile… And your poems too.
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That is all true. I’m sure there will be more photos!!!
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Yes
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By next year they’ll find other interests and other stuff to destroy.
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