Monday, February 2, 2009

Swiper, No Swiping!

Barnes family, it is beginning to frighten me how much this animal reminds me of Copper. Everything from the shape of her body, the texture of her fur, her pleading eyes, and her desire for destruction.

She did really well while I was at church yesterday and while I was at work today. She seems to be completely potty trained now, so I don't know if she had some previous training or if she just caught on really fast. Friday night and Saturday morning she had a number of accidents, but the first time I caught her going potty outside and gave her a treat for it she seemed to catch on.

While she has done really well while I am away from home, this is what I walked in on when I got out of the shower yesterday. I'd brought down a roll of paper towels to clean up one of her accidents and I left the towels on my night stand just in case I needed them again. Apparently she had great fun shredding the roll of paper.
What I was unable to capture in a photograph is that while I was trying to clean this mess up she was leaping up onto the bed, snapping at my hands, leaping down, running in a circle, then repeating the process over and over again with a look of absolute frantic glee on her face.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Another Naughty Bluetick Hound

This is one of my favorite commercials of all time, and it is also what first made me fall in love with the bluetick hound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGppj1PdZlA