My german shepherd Zoey is 7 months and my pomranian Khloe is 6 months. They both are completely potty trained so I hate to leave them in kennels when I go to work. So I have been leaving them locked in our kitchen which is a pretty big kitchen, they keep tearing stuff. I have took away everything they could tear up but now they are starting to chew on my bar stools and the cabinets. What should I do ?

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I am only gone for 5 hours at the longest,
First off they have been together since Khloe was 8 weeks and Zoey 12 weeks. They seem like they are from the same litter. They love each other more than me, My german shepherd would never ever hurt my pom they are sisters, and Zoey understands that she is way larger. Second off there is nothing in the kitchen that could hurt them I put everything up. its just them chewing on wood, Like the bottoms of cabinets and my wooden stools.
And energy wise, I have a fenced in yard we play out side for a good hour and half before I go to work. and plenty more when I get home.
Thanks B!nd! for your advice. I would love to leave them in the yard but my little pom can climb the fence she did it one day when I went to check the mail so I am afraid if I left her in the yard she would try to come find me. But thanks for your other advice.
Thank you so much snow queen. you have great ideas, and I like that you don’t like kennels I don’t either. I hate for my pups who are potty trained to have to be in a kennel rather than being with each other. I am going to try your ideas and see how it goes. I did kennel them until they got potty trained but I hated it the whole time.

fyi. I have left them both by their self, with out each other. I have taken Khloe somewhere and left Zoey and nothing would be messed up and I have left Khloe by herself and taken Zoey and nothing is messed up. Its just when they are left together that they chew and tear stuff up.

This is driving me nuts. Yesterday when I got home from work I was opening the mail in the kitchen and my 13 month old son was playin in the kitchen. My mom asked "Danielle..whats in Brayden’s mouth?" and then he starts gaggin…so we yanked him up and I put my fingers in his mouth to get whatever it was out…it felt mushy..like cloth or something. He ended up swallowing whatever it was. There was absolutely nothing in the kitchen well that I saw he could have gotten into. BESIDES…a Hawaain Lay. I thought maybe he tore one of the little flowers off and ate that? He didn’t gag for long and it wasn’t anything hard. I called the nurse to make sure I shouldn’t take him to the ER. He was fine lastnight. Acted his normal self. She said it should pass through and come out in his stool. So I am waiting to see what it was he ate. And hopefully it comes out. Hopefully it wasn’t anything bad. I am still freakin out about it. I told my mom to pay close attention to him today and check every poopy diaper.

Has your baby ate anything crazy? Have you had an experience like this before?
Yeah my son likes rocks too..how weird lol. Those decorative rocks for candles..we were visiting someone and he tried to put it in his mouth…crazy! lol

1. I have a dining room.

2. Said room is without a table.

3. I have a kitchen table that fits the kitchen color scheme.

4. The kitchen table used to be a dining room table but will not fit my dining room color scheme.

5. Tables are on sale at the local furniture store.

6. Tables tend to be filled up with mail and things; it’s a law of nature.

7. I always eat in front of the TV anyway.

My husband and I got an Australian Shepherd and had no problem house breaking her (she is over a year now), but she seemed lonely while we were gone and we decided to get her a friend. We picked up a 3 month old Border collie from the humane society thinking same size, intelligence, energy level, and so on. This puppy has given us the worst time of my life for the passed 2 months with housebreaking and overall training issues. I’m on the verge of getting rid of him, even though I would never have considered it before.
First off we’ve learned we cannot crate him because he simply will not have it. He whines, yelps, barks, throws up, pees, poops, digs at the bars and plastic, and this can go on for the entire night until we get up to let him out. This behavior continued for a week until we decided it was not fair to us to lose sleep over, and got rid of the crate.
Since we’ve started letting him stay in his own bed at the foot of our bed he does very well. He will sleep the entire night through without having any accidents, and will not try to jump on the bed or anything. As soon as we lay down he lays in his bed and goes to sleep. In the morning however when he decides it’s time to wake up he sits next to the bed and whines so I get up with him to let him out. If I don’t he throws up.
He seems to have the attitude that if he doesn’t get what he wants, he leaves presents for you around the house. If I go out to check the mail and don’t let him follow me, he pees on the couch, the bed, and on the kitchen rugs. If I don’t let him follow me into every room he leaves a puddle right outside the door that I’ve shut. If I don’t feed him dinner at 5 pm exactly, he pees. (We live on a military base and the songs go off that the dogs hear for their cues to eat dinner.) If I try to trim his nails he bites, which isn’t very hard since he’s so small, but still.
I’ve researched a lot on separation anxiety, and I followed steps there, but it doesn’t seem to help either. I tried not letting the dog follow me, but I gave up on that one because I need to watch him constantly. I don’t pay attention to him when he whines at me for attention. I praise him for appropriate behavior such as lying down on the floor, playing with his own toys, etc. I reward the dog every time he goes outside.
We don’t allow the dog on the furniture at all, but he gets up there when we’re gone. I realize I should lock him up while we’re gone, but if I do lock him up, I have to understand that there will be more holes of paint and drywall missing from wherever I lock him up, and if no t that, then also torn up furniture, carpeting, papers, or anything he can find.
I let my dog out at least every 2 hours because he is 5 months old, he runs out, goes to the bathroom runs a little, goes to the bathroom again, and then comes back in. He doesn’t always give me signals when he needs to go out so I have to follow the schedule.
Sometimes he pees himself while lying on the floor and try to hide it. He lies on top of his pee and licks himself to clean it off. I’ve scolded him when I caught him peeing and I put him outside immediately, and reward him for going outside. Back inside I make him watch me clean up the mess while telling him in a lower voice that he does not pee in the house, which he will sit there with his ears back just watching.
I’ve also tried scaring him into not peeing, but yelling very loudly and startling him when I catch him peeing on the couch or the bed, but that doesn’t work either.
I just don’t think a dog should make my life so conditional, especially since the other dog is so well behaved. I like the dog; he can be cute and fun to have around, and I don’t feel right giving up on him because his behavior needs adjusting, but I need some advice here.

My main entrace is into an enclosed porch and then the kitchen. We collect gum, cigarettes, money, papers, mail, pens, coupons, frequently used craft stuff for 3 yr old, and books at the end of the kitchen counter. I don’t have a pantry or any floor space for furniture in the kitchen or the hallway beyond it.

Where do you keep this stuff? It overflows the baskets I put there. Do I just need bigger ones?

Hi all, I will be moving at the end of the month to a small room so I will not take some furniture like wardrobe, kitchen table, old couch. I’m not selling them because they are way too old. What can happen if I leave it in my apartment? (I’m too lazy to take it out, 3 floors up, no elevator). The current lease is under someone’s else name and the person moved to another city a few years ago. I’m not a big "friend" of the landlord. He does not have my new cell number and I will not forward my mail to my new residence because I’m afraid that USPS will forget to forward some mail and it will go to my old address with a sticker with the new address. I have already updated all my bills to go to the new address.

Is it illegal to leave old furniture behind? Can the landlord chase me?

Thanks!

474 Things To Do When You’re Bored
- Wax the ceiling
- Rearrange political campaign signs
- Sharpen your teeth
- Play Houdini with one of your siblings
- Braid your dog’s hair
- Clean and polish your belly button
- Water your dog…see if he grows
- Wash a tree
- Knight yourself
- Name your child Edsel
- Scare Stephen King
- Give your cat a mohawk
- Purr
- Mow your carpet
- Play Pat Boone records backwards
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- Sleep on a bed of nails
- DON’T toss and turn
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- Speak in acronyms
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- Fly a brick
- Play tag…on West 35th Street
- Exorcise a ghost
- Exercise a ghost
- Be blue
- Be red
- But don’t be orange
- Plant a shoe
- Sweat
- Give a Rorschach test to your gerbil
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- Write a letter to Plato
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- Take your sofa for a walk
- Start
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- Dial 911 and breathe heavily
- Go to a funeral…tell jokes
- Play the piano…with mittens on
- Scheme
- Sit
- Stay
- Water your family room
- Cause a power failure
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- Find a witch
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- Donate your brother’s body to science
- Ask why
- Wriggle
- Regress
- Sleepwalk without sleeping
- Try to join Hell’s Angels by mail
- Wonder
- Be a square root
- Ask stupid questions
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- Spew
- Vacation at Three-Mile Island
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- Go bowling for small game
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- Wear a sweatband to your wedding
- Staple
- Run away
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- Bend a brick
- Annoy total strangers
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- Sing loud and sour and gravely
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- Embarrass yourself
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- Learn to speak Farsi
- Swear in Russian
- Use an eraser until it goes away
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- Put it together inside out
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- Sell formaldehyde
- Repeat
- Ad lib
- Fade
- File your teeth- Whine
- Rake your carpet
- Re-elect Richard Nixon
- Critique "Three’s Company"
- Listen to a painting
- Play with matches
- Buff your cat
- Race ferrets
- Paint your house…Day-Glow Orange
- Have a formal dinner at White Castle
- Read Homer in the original Greek
- Learn Greek
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- Change it back
- Watch the sun…see if it moves
- Build a pyramid
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- Stand on someone else’s head
- Spit shine your Nikes
- See how long you can stay awake
- See how long you can sleep
- Paint your teeth
- Wear a salad
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- Paint stripes on a lake
- Ski Kansas
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- Crawl
- Invite the Mansons over for dinner
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- Rotate your garden…daily
- Paint a smile
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- Apologize to it
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- Get mad at yourself
- Stop speaking to yourself
- Be a side effect
- Ride a bicycle…up Mt. McKinley
- Duck
- Redecorate…your garage
- Develop a complex
- Join the Army…be someone simple
- Try harder
- Hit the deck
- Put leg-warmers on your furniture
- Cut the deck
- Crumple
- Translate Shakespeare into English
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- Do aerobic exercises…in your head
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- Harness chipmunk power
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- Call London for a cab
- Mug a stop sign
- Change your name…daily
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- Challenge your neighbor to a duel
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- Howl
- Wear a lampshade on your head
- Memorize the dictionary
- Stomp grapes in the bathtub
- Find a bug and chase it
- Make yourself a pair of wings
- Be immobile
- Dance ’til you drop
- Check under chairs for chewing gum
- Squish a loaf of bread
- Moo
- Bounce a potato
- Outmaneuver your shadow
- Climb the walls
- Appreciate everything
- Challenge yourself to a duel
- Make napalm
- Tattoo your dresser
- Watch a bowling ball
- Buy some diapers
- Eat everything
- Begin
- Pour milk in the sink
- Make cottage cheese
- Tie-dye your sheets
- Carpet your ceiling
- Hold your earlobes
- Fold your earlobes
- Flap
- Squawk
- Read tea leaves
- Analyze the Koran
- Be Buddha
- Award yourself a Nobel Peace Prize
- Plug in the cat
- Turn on everything
- Drop pebbles down the chimney
- Turn off your neighbor
- Kill a plant
- Buy a 1931 Almanac
- Memorize the weather section
- Think lewd thoughts about yourself
- Blow bubbles
- Send chills down your spine
- Peel grapes
- Make paper from the skins
- Bloat
- Catch them with your radiator
- Get run over by a train of thought
- Make up famous sayings
- Bite your pinkie- Get your dog braces
- Shave a shrub
- Have a proton fight
- Watch a car rust
- Quiver
- Rotate your carpet
- Learn to type…with your toes
- Set up your Christmas tree in April
- Be someone special
- Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
- Mail it to a friend
- Go back to square one
- Factor your social security number
- Take the fifth
- Memorize a series of random numbers
- Read the 1962 Des Moines white pages
- Join the Foreign Legion
- Learn Sanskrit
- Exist…existentially, of course
- Print counterfeit Confederate money
- Kick a cabbage
- Take a picture
- Put it back
- Sandpaper a mushroom
- Play solitaire…for cash
- Abuse your patio furniture
- Run for Pope
- Count to a million…fast
- Make a schematic drawing…of a rock
- Commit seppuku…with a paper knife
- Revert
- Think shallow thoughts
- Starch your shoes
- Polish your Calvin’s
- Contemplate a cockroach
- Get a dog to chase your car
- Let him catch it
- Investigate the Czar
- Form a political party
- Climb a sidewalk
- Have a political party
- Get diagonal…with a good friend
- Ride a loaf of bread
- Sharpen a carrot
- Interrogate a gerbil
- Go bow hunting for Toyotas
- Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids
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- Play to lose
- Scalp a street light
- Have your car painted…plaid
- Read a tomato
- Sharpen your sleeping skills
- Watch a game show…take notes
- Put out a fire
- If you can’t find a fire, make one
- Interview a cloud
- Play tiddlywinks…go for blood
- Play basketball…in a minefield
- Don’t talk to things
- Draw Lewis structures on your ceiling
- Have your cat bronzed
- Have your gerbil gilded
- Write books about writing books
- Create random equations
- Mispell words
- Tell your feet a joke
- Throw a tomato into a fan
- Sing the ABC song backwards
- Pretend you’re a dog
- Dial-a-prayer and argue with it
- Grease the doorknobs
- String up a room
- Stack furniture
- Relive fond memories
- Tie your shoelaces together
- Gargle
- Count your teeth with your tongue
- Decay
- Find your half-life
- Design a better toilet seat
- Shred a newspaper
- Have a headache
- Scratch
- Sniff
- Hatch an egg
- Play air guitar
- Act profound
- Spill
- Spell
- Stare
- Truncate
- Slouch
- Develop hearing problems
- Put your feet behind your head
- Tie bows in everything
- Hold your hand
- Watch the minute hand move
- Grow your fingernails
- Pretend you’re a telephone
- Ring
- Radiate
- Skip
- Play hopscotch…with real scotch
- Clock the velocity of your REMs
- Put your shoes on the opposite feet
- Cross your toes
- Roll your tongue
- Crystallize
- Baby oil the floor
- Hide
- Attack innocent bunnies
- Declare war
- Destroy a tree
- Hide the scrabble bag
- Seduce your stick shift
- Wink
- Memorize the periodic table
- Mummify
- Pretend you’re a roadie
- Buy a Ginsu knife
- Collect electrons
- Correct typos that aren’t there
- Polish your neck…use Pledge
- Recopy the Bible substituting your name for God
- Loosen the lug nuts on your dad’s new car
- Drop your cat off the roof to see if it lands on all four feet
- Count the bags under Walter Mondale’s eyes
- Unscrew all the lightbulbs and rearrange the furniture
- Found the Jim Jones School of Bartending
- Listen for non-satanic messages (i.e. "Drink milk")
- Dress like Motley Crue…surprise your grandmother
- Dial-a-Prayer and tell them they’re wrong
- Go into a bar and ask for a Molotov Cocktail
- Learn everything there is to know about the Holy Roman Empire
- Make a drive-in window at your local bank where there wasn’t one before
- Walk on water…but don’t get caught
- Confess to a crime…that didn’t happen
- Be in the wrong place at the right time
- Plot the overthrow of your local School Board
- Request covert assistance from the CIA
- Discover the source of the Mississippi
- Search for buried treasure…in Nebraska
- Hot wax the bottom of your brother’s dress shoes
- Preach the philosophy of Marx…Groucho, that is
- Drink as much prune juice as you can
- Write a book about your previous life
- Serve ping-pong balls…as hors d’oeuvres
- Jump up and down…on your alarm clock
- Make a quilt out of used cocktail napkins
- Sterilize your stereo…with Jack Daniels
- Carve you and your girlfriend’s initials…in a marshmallow
- Drive the speed limit…in your garage
- Sing the national anthem…during your calculus final
- Wear a three-piece suit…in a sauna
- Pay off the national debt…with a bad check
- Go to a cemetary and verbally abuse dead people
- Give yourself a hernia…for Christmas
- Defend your neighborhood from roving Mongol hordes
- Recite romantic poetry…to your toaster
- See if you really can build a nuclear device in your own basement
- Go to McDonald’s and pretend you can’t speak English
- Write to your congressmen, senators, President, etc. to tell them what a good
- job they’re doing…On April 1st
- Find the heat capacity of your chemistry professor
- Take apart all your major kitchen appliances…mix and match them
- Turn your TV picture tube upside down
- Phone in a death threat on President Kennedy
- Put lighted EXIT signs on all your closets
- Carry a tune…drop it, see if it breaks
- Be planar…but don’t tell your parents
- Play hockey with your little cousin…as the puck
- Make a deal with the devil…but keep your fingers crossed
- Put instant concrete in your big brother’s waterbed
- Give a lecture on the historical significance of cream cheese
- Debate politics with a fern
- See how small you can scrunch your face- Sell firewood door to door…in Atlantis
- Found the TLO (Toledo Liberation Organization)
- Play nuclear chicken with a small third world nation
- Raise professional certified racing turnips
- Give your grandmother a raise and another day of paid vacation
- Lead an aerobics class…for patients of the I.C.U.
- Go to a drive-in movie in a tank
- Go to a non-drive-in movie in a tank and drive in anyway
- Send President Reagan an alarm clock…wind it up first
- Found a cockroach stable and stud ranch
- Send your goldfish to obedience school
- Free the oppressed toasters of America
- Weave a tablecloth out of copper tubing
- Give your cat a suntan…in the microwave
- Park your car…with a friend
- Park your car…with a group of friends
- Frame your first statement of bankruptcy
- Place it on the wall of your office
- Solve the population problem (x^2 + y^2 = population…solve for x)
- Contribute to the population problem
- Wear a T-shirt that says "I’ll walk on you to see The Who" and a peace sign
- Practice the Aztec method of heart removal on your professor
- Find out who made the super glue commercials and give them your Ginsu knife
- Get Ronco and K-tel to merge…they sell the same stuff anyway
- Sneak into a nuclear physics lab and stay the night
- Play with anything that looks interesting
- Drop piston engines on two people and see who squishes first
- See if your goldfish can live in Coors rather than water
- Try to ignite water…the Mississippi might work
- Draw Venn diagrams…screw them up
- State fallacies as fact (like, "peanuts grow on bushes")
- Visit the Architecture building…loudly criticize its design
- Make a schematic drawing…of a rock
- Wallpaper your laundry room…with pages from books you don’t like
- See if diamonds really do cut glass…on everything in your neighbor’s house
- Tenderize your tongue…chew on it for a while
- See how long you can stare at a fluorescent light…try green
- Bronze your sister’s turtle
- See how long it takes for her to notice
- See what she does when she notices
- Bronze your sister- If you lose, stop watering it and try again.
- Increase your territorial holdings by force
- Find out how many ways there really are to skin a cat
- Boldly go where no man has gone before
- Be a threat to the American way of life
- Do research into the cause of World War III
- Be a threat to the Northwestern Tibetan way of life
- Re-establish the Roman Empire…in Pittsburgh

During the summer I see retired folks parking their RV’s in the back 40. I understand it’s a courtesy and the store benifits from extra security and purchase made. I thought what if I was retired and wanted to live inside Wal-Mart. First you get a P.O. box that some store provide to get mail. There is usually a fast food restaurant or snack bar or both. In the evening the night crew could care less if you goto lawn and garden and sleep on the lawn furniture. You can spounge bath in the restrooms and if you need clothes you have an endless supply. Plenty of company too. It’s easy to strike up conversations with others. Wonder how long before management caught on and if they would even care as long as you weren’t a nusiance.