Day 31 ...And Again

Mom can't believe it, but Beebee and Rascal got out of the dog room...again!  When Mom got home today they had made their way into the bathroom.

This is the corner where they found a spot to escape.  That wall is 3 feet high.  That wine box is there because there is about a half inch space between the wood on the right wall and the hinge that makes the door on the left wall.  Beebee and Rascal had started to dig at that space.  Mom had a piece of wood propped there, but they just moved it out of the way.  Mom didn't figure they could move this box so thought it seemed like a good idea to put it there.  It's still about 2 feet from the box to the top of the wood.  Mom never figured it would act as a step to get to that little opening at the top.

As you can see that spot isn't very big, but lots big enough for them to fit through.  And this is definitely how they got out because, if you click on the picture to make it bigger, you can see there is Fluffie fur along the top.  Which means it was a bit of a struggle to get over.  But it obviously didn't stop them both from escaping.







Once they got into the crawl space they managed to get through the barricade on the other side of the crawl space.  Mom's not really too surprised by that as it's a pieces of particle board propped against some chairs.

Mom is surprised that they managed to get past the wood propped to get to the whole in the bathroom wall.  It was placed tightly against the wall but not screwed to the wall (like the piece you can see on the right side of the picture) because she still hasn't fixed the hole in the bathroom wall.  They are very crafty little dogs and just moved it out of the way so they could squeeze past and get back into the bathroom.  At least Mom was smart enough to close the bathroom door and that's where they were when she got home.



On a positive note, we've been going to the dog park daily since the weather has been nice and Beebee and Rascal's social skills have greatly improved. Beebee was quite yappy the first couple of times at the dog park and barked a lot whenever she would see a big dog.  This has almost completely stopped.  She might bark at the first dog she sees, but hardly any more after that.  Rascal has become a lot more confident around big dogs.  As mentioned awhile ago, Rascal would stick pretty close to Mom when there were big dogs around but now he'll go by the big dogs on his own and even goes up to greet most of them.