Thought I would share this with ya'll...

Can your dog do this?

As all of you know I have this not so little angel sent from heaven who I have named Sasha.

Sasha seems to think she is not part wolf and part dog, it would appear that she is under the impression that she is part ferret and part human child. IE she is now over 3 feet tall weighs over 40 pounds and STILL thinks she can fit under the bed, that is an example of the ferret part. An example of the human child part she will run to mama SCREAMING and HOWLING if someone steps on her foot, begging a little rocking and babying time.

WEEELLL I cam home from work last night only to discover a VERY shamed Sasha, as well as an irate husband…

In order to keep Sasha somewhat contained to one area of the house we have set up a few baby gates, she has figured out how to unlatch them! Also because she is part wolf I was told around 4 months of age she would start growing VERY rapidly, in other words I would literally wake up to discover that she shot up about 4 to 6 inches over night!! We have found this to be true and therefore have put her on a daily dose of calcium and joint meds which are chewable, and she LOVES them!

I keep these pills in my dresser where all my hair fixing stuff is so that every day when I go to grab my brush there it is and I remember to give it to her…

Apparently my husband got home from work right before I did yesterday and he walked into a mess any spoiled rotten 2 year old would have been proud of!!!

It would seem Sasha has watched us latch the baby gates every day thereby keeping her locked up in the kitchen, she has also watched us and saw how we can open the kitchen cabinets by flicking the child proof lock, allowing us to get at all those humans foods from which she is banned due to the evil smelling gastric odors she passes when she has consumed such foods. She has also discovered how to open our freezer, I have one of the new refrigerators which has the freezer on the bottom rather than on top, thereby gaining access to tubs of ice cream and boxes of pop cycles.

Apparently Sasha’s genus doesn’t end with these amazing feats, like I said she can unlatch the baby gates now, she also knows where mama keeps her ‘candies’ or pills rather. Apparently she took it upon herself to get into that drawer and when she couldn’t figure out the child safe locks on the bottles she decided my hair ties and make up and what not was VERY fun to throw around and chew into bits!

What we came home to was…

Two bottols of maple syrup tops off and sticky stuff EVERYWHERE! A box of pop tarts with the wrappers tore open and crumbs all through the sticky stuff, a nearly completely defrosted freezer hanging wide open three half gallons of ice cream tore open and licked completely CLEAN! A box of red white and blue pop cycles in shreds and only a few sticks laying about looking rather gnawed, another box of Welch’s frozen fruit bars also shredded almost beyond recognization, nothing left but sticks and paper, a bag of brown sugar burst open with its contents looking like someone tried to decorate the floor with its pretty crystals, hmm I wonder who? That isn’t the end of it though…

She broke into the bag of powdered sugar as well, found my secret stash of chocolate Zingers and murdered them. We are unsure as to whether she unlatched the baby gates before or after getting herself all buzzed up on sugar, although with the amount of destruction we are thinking perhaps she was high as a kite when she made into our bedroom and up the steps into the bathroom where she proceeded to shred every single last roll of toilet paper as well as two boxes of tampons and a great big huge bag of maxi pads!

The seen I walked in on was utter chaos and the sound of my husband YELLING! Yes Jeff YELLING! He never EVER yells! ‘Get you’re a** out from under there! I swear to GOD! I am going to beat you until your half dead!’ he was yelling at Sasha who ran under our bed and was apparently hiding from her extremely ticked off papa.

Sasha got a whipping, mama cried because she cried, daddy tied her up outside while we cleaned up the mess, we took her with us to Wal-Mart where we got more food, then off to the pet supply place where we got the biggest doggy crate we could find.

Now my not so little angel sent from heaven is sick sick sick to her tummy, she kept me up half the night moaning and throwing up, she has the poops and is looking rather miserable. From now on when we leave the house she will be contained to her crate and we hope to GOD she doesn’t figure out how to open it!!!

I am amazed over her ability to figure out how to unlatch baby gates, get past child locks, and open doors and drawers, yet at the same time I am NOT happy about the mess she made!! Now I knew wolves could make messes but holy moly!!!! Who would have EVER thought!

i hope you took video to send off to america's funniest videos, because it may win. as far as the whipping, i have read if you punish an animal after the fact, they don't know why, they just know you are mad. that's why they tuck there tail and look scared, because your tone of voice tells them that you are upset. ever since i read that i don't punish my animals for what i don't catch them doing. of course, if i ever come home to a mess like you had, i might change my mind.

Sounds like the morning after my teenage granddaugher has her friends to a sleepover.

I wouldn't have spanked her, either, but hard to say what one would do in the circumstances. Once you got over falling down laughing.

It's really interesting, and shows how little animal psychologists know about animal intelligence. It's said that wild animals are more intelligent, and I have heard tales of wolverines, foxes and even raccoons doing really clever things to get at campers' and trappers' goodies.

I suppose she watched as you used your various locks, and though, "Hmmm. Maybe if I fiddle with that thing I can make it open!"

Can she not be outdoors? It seems cruel to confine such a large, energetic animal in a cage.

i agree with babthrower. can't she be put on a long chain while you are gone if you don't have a fence. it sounds awful confining to be in a crate all day.

I totally know the feeling of having to outwit your canine friend. We have labs that are way to smart for their own good. We actually have to baby lock the freezers and the fridge and put everythign away in cupboards or its fair game. We have found that using brain toys has helped as has doing a playroom for them in the basement with tires and treats and yummies hidden all over the place. i treat it like a zoo down there in their play room. If its works for a bear it will last throught their play.

Labrdogs Mom - I lived in WI for several years, where are you? Feel free to email me thru my profile.

And on the subject of smart animals - they sometimes can be much smarter than we give them credit for! A cat that I had to leave behind when I moved to Oregon was "Brat"...a male.

One day, we discovered him using the toilet. Obviously, he had watched while "we" used it, and picked up on it. I still wish I had video of it. From what I hear, he continues to prefer the toilet to the litter box. Only thing is, nobody has been able to teach him how to flush

I often wonder what is going on in the mind of my cat - currently Cubby...who always meets me in the stairwell when I come home - I still don't know if she hears me, sees me coming, or just KNOWS. They are VERY smart animals, and most times I don't think they get half the credit they deserve!