Bad dog!

Colbie has been having a rough past few weeks. We have been allowing her to roam free of the house when we are at work since she turned 2 in September, and she's been great. Never getting into things, no accidents, just lays on the couch in the porch and sun bathes :) But lately looks like she's been getting bored... She has never been a chewer, well besides sometimes with her toys if we let her. And she really is a smart dog and knows when she does something wrong and feels bad because she's such a pleaser. I don't think its necessarily because baby is coming (because baby's been coming for the last 6 months), so I think its the cold weather, and us never getting outside to run her. Kevin is always in the basement working, and I am in baby's room painting or crafting, and so we aren't spending much time with her. So she is pissed. She is purposely pulling things out to the middle of the living room floor and chewing them to shreds.

First it was 3 days in a row. Thursday - some laser measure thing Kevin borrowed from his work (spendy gadget, oops!) and a screw driver. Friday - my purple ribbon from baby's room, my computer mouse that was on the couch and some cardboard box. Saturday - my hot glue gun and glue sticks that have been sitting out in the study room for over a month, and she just now decided to chew it. She was punished for a day and then I gave her one last chance...but, she ate Kevin's slipper on Monday. Then we started putting her in the laundry room, for about a week, and gave her another try. Before I left for work I looked all around to make sure nothing was in sight at her reach. I had a bag of fabric sitting out on the end table, and saw a spool of ribbon sitting next to it so I made sure to put it inside the bag. When Kevin got home...he found she had got onto the couch, reached her head into the bag, pulled out the ribbon and chewed it all up!! And then went into the study room, stood up to see what was on the desk, pulled off some computer cord and shredded that to pieces as well. Aghhhh! It's like she's pissed at us and trying to make a statement. And yesterday as we left her in the laundry room again...she chewed the trim off the wall. O.M.G. Today she is in her kennel in the garage. No more chances. Sorry pup.

Then over this past weekend, Friday night, she began this cough...I thought she was choking on something, because it sounded like she was trying to hack it out. She was up every hour of the night coughing under our bed. I called the vet right when they opened 8am, explained that she was at Paws & Pals Pet Resort last weekend (when we were at the wedding) and she might have "kennel cough". Sure enough she does. And the vet said they had 4 other dogs in the same day with the same story of being at Paws & Pals. So she's been on a antibiotic now for 3 days and some cough medicine. Its subsided a little, but they said it'll take a whole week for the cough to go away. Poor baby. She's like having a kid already! And here she is looking all cute....as I let her up on the couch to lay with me and baby :)