Doggie destruction

When you have puppies in your life, you will be entertained. Like children, they just do the darnedest things.

As puppies, Titan and Asha had a particular fondness for destruction.

Luckily, furniture and clothes were not much of a target, as with some puppies. Although, I did have to rescue the odd sock and I had to stop them from chewing on the couch a couple of times. Also, the wooden frame of the passage mirror still bears tiny tooth marks.

Their main target was paper or cardboard. Often the newspaper put down for them to 'do their business' came under attack, as is evident from this photo, taken on day two of us having them:

The most memorable destruction event is what I have called 'the annihilation of the paper recycling'. In the time it took my ex to go and fetch a pizza for dinner -- about 20 minutes -- Titan and Asha made a huge mess, and had much fun doing so. And I got great enjoyment out of watching them.

You can share in the fun of watching them with this video. Unfortunately, I had turned my camera while recording them, so the video has come out sideways and I have not yet figured out how to fix it.

And here is a still picture of the same event:

Quite a mess!

Another item that came under attack was the door mat. They were not quite pleased with having to stay outside while we cleaned the one day, and so they pulled the mat through the security gate and did this to it:

Then, when it was approaching their first winter, we decided to make their dog house a little warmer by hanging a blanket with a slit in it at the entrance to the dog house and stuffing newspaper into the crevices. We woke up the next morning to this:

And I was actually able to record destruction in progress. Here are the before, during and after photos of Asha destroying a ball - she has always been much better at destroying things than Titan, he's a bit of a softy.

While in some cases their destroying things was frustrating - like when Asha took her new collar off the dining room table and destroyed it before she had even worn it - you can't get angry with them when it's so funny to see. It's play for them -- and what's more fun than ripping things to tiny pieces?