The pup.

[mrissa]

There are more and less disgusting times for the dog to get into the bathroom trash.

This one was probably somewhere in the middle. If you have a really gross imagination, you're thinking too gross here. If you're a sweet-minded person (how did you find me?), yes, it was worse than an empty bottle of shampoo.

Also, Ista has decided that my bras would be really the best chew toys ever. She responds well to "Drop it!" but not to "No!" as a general concept to apply next time she gets the urge. I think this is like I was suggesting to scottjames about his cat: it's not that Ista doesn't understand that she's not supposed to try to find and gnaw my undergarments. It's that she disagrees.

I have at least gotten her to stop trying to bite them when they are on my body (through my clothes, by crawling up skirts or loose blouses, by crawling down my cleavage -- we have a rule in this house, that only one mammal can wear a given garment at a given time, and I stand by that rule).

I keep saying I wouldn't want to have a dog with no personality and no opinions, I guess. I just wish the opinions weren't things like, "Mmmm, underwires!"

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[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

I just wish the opinions weren't things like, "Mmmm, underwires!"
Heeheeheeheehee...

Having dealt with a human toddler, I understand completely.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

it's not that Ista doesn't understand that she's not supposed to try to find and gnaw my undergarments. It's that she disagrees.

Yep. That would be Abby, too. Not so much with the knickers, but with the counter-surfing and sofa-pouncing, definitely. Daft pooch.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Cats and dogs alike have a love of odd things.

I note your rule refers to mammals...what about other organisms?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Other organisms are not invited to live in the house, much less share garments.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

when you combine "must eat this so the predators can't smell us" + "tasty!" + "everything is a toy" + the bathroom garbage, welllll.

let's just say i feel your pain.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I think my cats are just not smart enough to generalize that my telling them to stop something this time actually also implies I would like them not to do it next time.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ista has gotten that concept on several other issues, so I think she's just stubborn sometimes.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In duplicate, I suspect.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Okay, grossest thing my dog ever got into...

You know, I find I really can't bear to speak of it. I'm pretty sure it's grosser than what happened in your bathroom trash, though. *sigh*

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Yes - I wasn't meaning that all pets refuse to generalize the concept out of stupidity. I just think my cats do because other evidence suggests they really aren't all that bright.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you for not compulsively sharing. I really do appreciate that.