For those of you that don't know, Josh is a rescue springer who came in to my life over 2 years ago - he was at least 10 to 12 kilos overweight when I got him and was clearly used to using his bulk to his advantage. He is now a normal weight for his size, but still goes through things rather than round them, and is generally an oaf.
I have learned to live with him leaving a trail of devastation in his wake!
But, he excelled himself today.
I have just sold my chin cage on Ebay - they came to pick it up, so I asked if they could come to the back gate so I could shut the dogs out of the way. So I shut the dogs behind the dog gate - as I have done 100s of times before.
I opened the back gate to let Ebay people in, then what I can only describe as a cacophony of noise erupted from the kitchen, including smashing crockery, and general pandemonium, at the end of which Josh smashed through the dog flap. To cut a long story short, I eventually manhandled him back indoors, and shut him in the lounge , behind the kitchen door. Poor people carried the cage to their car, probably thinking that I was some sort of dog beater, as Josh was refusing point blank to go back in
Although they did say they had 2 dogs so had some sympathy.
When I went back in I was able to work out what had happened - Josh had smashed his way through the dog gate, got his head stuck though it then run through the kitchen with the dog gate attached, knocking everything on the draining board either over or off, tipping his (full) water bowl over, causing general chaos and breaking the end of the dog gate! It was devastation!
I was so cross I couldn't be in the same room as him
Can sort of see the funny side now - sort of
