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Zorrovian Mischief
The way Zorro still jumps and nips/bites at me sometimes, I worry that she may bite off one of my nipples someday. I haven't decided whether that would be a particularly bad thing or not. She's already nipped them several times. But I suppose being in the ER with a bleeding mutilated nipple wouldn't result in me being able to get top surgery right away, anyway. So, oh well.
Mischief and damage that Zorro has demonstrated she can perform on my property, even though she isn't allowed inside the house.
- Chewing up a water hose into many pieces. (After seeing the pieces, I quickly gathered up the other water hose which still appeared to be intact, and moved it into the garage for safety.)
- Chewing up the plastic diverters which are attached to the bottom of the metal gutter spouts. (I got sneaky yesterday though, and put a noise-maker rattler into one of them. She doesn't like that, heheh!)
- Chewing/scratching at the vinyl siding - apparently something caught her attention at the edge of the house today, and I had to put her on the tie-out cable to keep her from keeping at it. (Luckily most of the house is brick, and only part is vinyl siding. I hope she doesn't chew up my house.).
- Digging holes. (I can shovel up some of her shit into the holes though, to discourage her from continuing to dig in the same ones.)
- Digging up the fruit/vegetable scraps in my compost pile, right after I've buried them, and dragging them all across the front yard. (Now I lay down bricks on top of the compost pile after burying the scraps, to discourage her from digging there.)
- Licking/eating up the fire-ant bait after I've sprinkled it onto ant mounds. (Solution - either keep her tied up on the cable until the ants have taken away all the bait, or shake my noise-rattler at her, when she starts licking it up, to startle her away. I use Spinosad ant bait, which is the same ingredient in some tick/flea medicines, so at least the bait shouldn't be dangerous to her in the small amounts I apply.)
- Barking. Sometimes she gets into a barking spree, and when I try to calm her down and get her to stop, she acts like she has the hiccups... like how you'll be fine and calm for a little while, but then another bark/hiccup suddenly escapes again and threatens to turn into another whole uncontrollable episode.
Mischief and damage that Zorro has demonstrated she can perform on my property, even though she isn't allowed inside the house.
- Chewing up a water hose into many pieces. (After seeing the pieces, I quickly gathered up the other water hose which still appeared to be intact, and moved it into the garage for safety.)
- Chewing up the plastic diverters which are attached to the bottom of the metal gutter spouts. (I got sneaky yesterday though, and put a noise-maker rattler into one of them. She doesn't like that, heheh!)
- Chewing/scratching at the vinyl siding - apparently something caught her attention at the edge of the house today, and I had to put her on the tie-out cable to keep her from keeping at it. (Luckily most of the house is brick, and only part is vinyl siding. I hope she doesn't chew up my house.).
- Digging holes. (I can shovel up some of her shit into the holes though, to discourage her from continuing to dig in the same ones.)
- Digging up the fruit/vegetable scraps in my compost pile, right after I've buried them, and dragging them all across the front yard. (Now I lay down bricks on top of the compost pile after burying the scraps, to discourage her from digging there.)
- Licking/eating up the fire-ant bait after I've sprinkled it onto ant mounds. (Solution - either keep her tied up on the cable until the ants have taken away all the bait, or shake my noise-rattler at her, when she starts licking it up, to startle her away. I use Spinosad ant bait, which is the same ingredient in some tick/flea medicines, so at least the bait shouldn't be dangerous to her in the small amounts I apply.)
- Barking. Sometimes she gets into a barking spree, and when I try to calm her down and get her to stop, she acts like she has the hiccups... like how you'll be fine and calm for a little while, but then another bark/hiccup suddenly escapes again and threatens to turn into another whole uncontrollable episode.
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