Day 19 The Escape Artists

Beebee and Rascal have been spending the day in the basement when Mom as to leave the house.  I think I talked about this room when Nanook was here, but our house is a back split and at the front of the house is a crawl space that is accessed by the 'dog room' on one side and the laundry room on the other side.  Mom has built a wall to close off access to the crawl space in the dog room, but there is still an access open in one spot that she barracades with various items.  On the side wall is where the stairs go up.  Mom had this wall barracaded as well, but Beebee and Rascal have already managed to get that piece of wood off once.  And just so everyone understands...that piece of wood was screwed to the wall.  Sure it was only one screw, but they are little dogs!

Anyway, when Mom left for work this morning Beebee and Rascal where in the dog room.  The access to the crawl space had 2 (heavy) pieces of wood held in place by a very large (full) box and a table.  When Mom came home from work Beebee and Rascal were up with me sitting at the window, guarding the house.  Mom knew this wasn't a good sign.  She figured that she had forgot to shut the laundry room door and that when Beebee and Rascal managed to get into the crawl space they just came around to the other side, into the laundry and escaped to freedom. 

When Mom went downstairs, both the dog room and laundry room doors were closed.  Now she really started to wonder how they got free.  She went into the dog room and sure enough they had gotten into the crawl space.  Mom then went into the laundry room and that's when I heard some bad words.  The laundry room is unfinished and is beside the bathroom.  Beebee and Rascal had dug a hole in the dry wall, pushed the baseboard out of the way and gotten through to the bathroom.  Mom hadn't closed the bathroom door because, well, why would she?



This is what Mom saw when she went into the laundry room.

And this is what she saw when she went into the bathroom.











There is a reason why Beebee and Rascal are in the dog room when Mom isn't home and that's because Beebee (and mabye Rascal) will go to the washroom in the house if left unsupervised.  After seeing this damage Mom went on the hunt for the other 'surprises' Beebee and Rascal left for her.  Thankfully no one peed on the carpet.  However, and this just tops the whole thing off, Rascal peed on Mom's CD player.  I pointed this one out to Mom, but instead of a 'thank you' I heard more bad words.   I'm sure she appreciates my help, but I'm not getting any warm, fuzzy feelings coming off her tonight.