The other night, my human had invited the "girls" from our road to the house to share in some Christmas sweets. And some alcohol. We knew something was up, because she had dusted and vacuumed - and we were effectively moved from room to room as she tackled each part of the house. She decided that she would move the FG's pony sized crate into the garage - and then discovered that it is SO big it would require disassembling it to get it through the doorway. So instead, she opened the deck doors and dragged it out there. While we all raced around barking. Which we did in each room she was cleaning.
While we are very friendly dogs, and DO enjoy a party, my human had decided that she was going to remove the unsightly gate from the entrance to the DFZ (the room with the large glass Christmas tree and the dog tree) - which meant we would NOT be in attendance at the soiree. She fed us our supper, took us for walks - and then announced that we would all be staying in the large chain link dog run that is in the heated garage which is attached to the house. Now the FG didn't care - he doesn't know much about parties, so he didn't know that we would be missing out on countless opportunities to steal food from the coffee table and the counters. I knew what we would be missing, and was a a bit put out - but I knew it wasn't going to be late night as several of the party goers had to go to work the next day. So I was fine with our temporary accommodations. HOWEVER - Frodo was NOT happy. And in case you don't know this - he does NOT like to be sequestered. Any where. Any time. And he WILL find a way out.
My human KNOWS that Frodo is an escape artist (I call him PONdini) so she closed the door to the run, put down the latch and then placed two EXTRA LARGE bins in front of the door. AND a baby gate. She stood back and admired her work, all the time Frodo was just watching. She went back in the house to finish her preparations.
My human was putting out the sweets before the guests arrived and she heard a noise in the garage. She opened the garage door and looked at the run. The EMPTY run. SOMEONE had managed to push the latch up, open the door and push the gate and bins just enough to escape. PONdini. And two stooges followed right behind. We were all in the garage - Frodo and I were trying to figure out how to get into the food bin and Elroy was doing a "pre-shredding" of the papers in the recycling bin. While my human went to get Elroy, Frodo and I made a dash into the house and quickly ran into the DFZ to check out the snacks on the coffee table and to see if we needed to rearrange any of the ornaments on the trees. My human ran after us and told us to get out of the room - which we did. But TRY and get Frodo back in that run. He KNEW she was going to fortify the prison. She finally got him by the collar and led him back into the run. This time, she put THREE gates in front of the door - attached by countless bungee cords. And Frodo watched. And every time she thought the fortification was secure, she looked at him, eyeing her handiwork and she went for more bungee cords. Honestly, at this point Frodo KNEW even HE would not be able to get out - unless he climbed the chain link fence, but he knew that by just looking at the fence, he would freak out my human and that was almost as rewarding as actually escaping.
After the guests left, and the DFZ was secured, we were released from our bondage. We ran around checking to make sure there were no leftovers on the counters and performed our vacuum routine all around the house. We are the after-party cleaning squad. Hey - maybe we could get a job doing that!!! Now there's a money making scheme! We provide functional cleaning and we are oh-so-entertaining! Gotta start working on my website.
Have a good one!
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