Dog mischief

Last night we were upstairs playing pool and we noticed that only two of our four dogs were up there hanging out with us (the two male ones, cuz they're the most loyal), and when I called for the other two I heard nothing but silence. Marlee Bean loves to hang out in the bedroom downstairs even if we're all in another part of the house and never wants to join in the fun, so I didn't really worry about her. But if Sophie doesn't come when I call her, that means she's up to no good and needs to be confronted about whatever it is she's doing.

I went downstairs and found her with her head buried in the black leather bag that Angela carries to work, and there were various remants scattered across the floor of the laundry room. Angela keeps all sorts of accourtrements in this bag: cold and allergy medicine, gum, various things in ziploc bags, pens and paper, etc. None of these things should spend a lot of time in a dog's stomach, but at first glance it looked like nothing had been consumed. The laundry room did smell awfully minty though.

I yelled upstairs and asked Angela if she knew how much gum she had in her bag prior to Sophie's mischief and she yelled back, "Almost a whole pack." There was one piece left. Marlee Bean's breath was mint free, but the smell was concentrated on Sophie's mouth and whiskers. She didn't take the time to unwrap each piece and chew because there were no wrappers on the floor, so she must have just gulped them all at once. If I were a cusser I would insert a naughty word right here. We had to call Angela's vet tech brother-in-law to find out whether or not this ball of spearmint in her stomach would become a rock and possibly lead to her death and he had to call his boss to find out for sure, but when he called back he said it she should pass it in a day or two. Now we're waiting on that exciting event to happen.

We really need to get the kinks worked out if we're going to have real kids someday! Maybe we can put a playpen next to the pool table and pile all the dogs and kids in together so we can keep an eye on them. Yes, we got mad parenting skillz.