SO WHAT DID YOU DO LAST MONDAY?

Remember my "Post It" about the puppies coming into our yard? These cute little friends of Skye's who now live next door. She is standing on a rock kissing them. As you can see in this picture we have a nylon netting up. We did this last year when we brought Skye home. She was so tiny and I am so protective of her I didn't want her going through the fence. With a view home you have what is called "cat fence" along the back portion of your yard. If Skye had gone through as a puppy it would be really difficult getting her as she ran down the hill. There is no gate either and it's not a simple fence to get over.

Well these cuties, with their razor like teeth and nails (like all puppies) managed to tear through this mesh which I can't break through with my hands. So for days they were getting into our yard. At first they were just climbing up and over. I would place them through the fence over and over again. I ended up getting some cardboard and placing it against the fence to cover the holes they made. Of course this happened when my husband was out of town for 9 days! The neighbor also put up some thick cardboard on his side. So my husband was going to get some heavier wire and put it up when he got back from his trip. Well the neighbor ended up doing that so the pups can't get through anymore.

So end of story right? NOT! As time goes on I have been giving Skye more time outside. I will sit at the table with my computer and watch her. If I don't see her I will say "Skye where are you" and she will usually come and show me herself. (kinda cute right) So we were doing this on Monday. She was running back and forth along that side of the fence looking at the puppies. Part of that area I can't see because of the spa. So I was asking Skye to show me where she was and I didn't see her.

So I put on my robe, go outside and guess what I see? Did you guess? Skye was next door in the neighbors yard playing with the puppies. SHE DUG A HOLE AND WENT OVER! She did this once before when Chasey was living next door. Believe me when I tell you that I no longer existed to Skye. She never even looked at me when I called her name.

So now what do I do? I can't get over the fence. (believe me when I tell that you don't want to see a 5'2" 190 pound asthmatic woman trying to jump that fence!) She wouldn't come anywhere near the fence! So I run in the house and go out in front with my robe on and run next door to their gate. Simple solution right? Well of course they have their side gate with a padlock on it. Understandable but not very good for me at the moment. These new neighbors are gone from 8am until almost 8pm each day. What the fudge am I going to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank God my husband is in town and only works 9 miles away from home. He came home and saved the day. See this happened around noon and I there was no way I was going to let this go on until 8pm. (I think I might have called the police to help me if hubby wasn't home) So he had to get the ladder, jumped over in his work clothes, and handed me our sweet little girl who I was very angry with. I had already filled the laundry room sink with water for a bath. I do not have pictures. I was going to take a picture of Skye playing with the pups but the darn little male was doing the naughty with her every chance he got. (I wasn't about to take a picture of that. What if her husband saw it someday!)

So she got her bath. My plan was to bath her and put her in her kennel for the rest of the day. I didn't do that because the kennel should not be used as punishment. So Skye got to live under the EVIL eye of me all day. She pretty much stayed under the bed! (no animals were harmed during this exercise) My new Red Olympic mittens were not harmed either. Aren't they awesome.
But I almost lost a shoe. I left my shoes by the back door when I went inside. So while my husband was getting a shovel to fill in the hole with dirt one of the puppies actually came under the fence through Skye's hole. The puppy took my shoe and I guess tried to get back into its yard with it. My shoe was sitting in the hole!