to believe that your dog is an angel, things go pear shaped.
ill start at the begining, Jack and bruce play up and wreck the place when we are out and tess is normally pretty good, so Jack goes in a crate and the crate is placed in the bathroom doorway to stop Bruce getting in the bathroom, Bruce stays in the passageway by the back door with a baby gate stopping him from getting into the kitchen, and so Tess can have some peace she stays in the kitchen with a baby gate stopping her from getting in to the living room.
I left for work today at midday with my mum who was going with my boss to have her hair done, so dogs are sorted out and put into their spots, we got back at 5.30 only to be greeted by tess, she was all pleased with herself and happy to see us, i turned the lights on and the start of the destruction was revealed, so all 3 dogs are packed off in to the garden and the clean up began, in the living room tess had got the table centrepiece complete with candles and pine cones and pulled it on to the floor, cushions were all over the floor, bits of paper and sweet wrappers on the floor, peanut wrappers on the floor. The litter tray is in the front hallway and tess had had a good rumage in that and thrown cat litter everywhere, on the stairs were videos from the bedrooms. I sent one of my sisters upstairs to find out what mess was upstairs only for her to find a chocolate orange for christmas eaten , so off i go upstairs to see what else she has had, when i get there i find my video cases eaten, chocolate all over my mums cream duvet cover, another chocolate orange wrapper under the duvet, blancmange over mums bed and around the floor, i go into my sisters room to find mess on the bottom bunk, after carefull examination i find out it is chocolate angel delight, and then find a box of liquer chocolates, and teddy bears from the different rooms had been swapped over.
So all in all tess had, 2 chocolate oranges, a bag of cashews nuts, a swizzel lolly some celebration chocolates, angel delight, blancmange, and some liquer chocolates.
The whole time we were cleaning up I just couldnt help but think of all the fun tess had had while we were out and kept laughing at the thought.
The best bit is this is the most mess tess has ever made, even when she was a pup she never done anything like it she is going to be 5 in march, so she must be having a 2nd puppy hood.

Tanya

OMG

No wonder she was pleased with herself !!  - talk about self rewarding behaviour !!

Thats so sweet bless must be getting into the xmas cheerfulness lol she had a little party of her own. She will be wanting a dog flap for xmas so she can invite friends round to join her lol

Just be grateful shedidn't let the other two out. :)

Karen

Oh boy oh boy ... don't you remember me saying, when we picked Freya out, that she had the same lines running through her as our Purdey ..... Purdey of the destroyed Christmas tree choccy decs, Purdey of the Great Easter Egg Thefts.... I think I have decided that Freya will be LOCKED UP at Christmas & Easter :D :D :D

Actually she is a little angel..... apart from her addiction to Ferraro Roche a la Chat :D :D

Margot

(Glad you managed to clear everything up, though!!!)

Yes i remember :D it makes me wonder now whether all the 'bad' things that Bruce and Jack do are really tess :D , she is sulking at the moment for several reasons 1, so had no dinner as she had already eaten enough :D , 2, she has been told she is having no more timeout from the other two she has got to sleep with them and stay with them when were are out, and 3, she has been told Santa might not bring her any pressies now :D

tanya