Nine months old

Big girl in her "spot"... she likes to watch the neighborhood from here.

So Akyra turned nine months old this week. Oh boy.. she is quickly becoming a dog instead of a puppy.. yeah right! We have been giving her a bit more freedom these days.. letting her out of her cage but keeping her "locked" in the kitchen for short periods of time.. it was going great.. while I was in Maryland, Geoff let her stay out for the afternoon (checked in on her at lunch and then gated up the doorways). She did really well. Then on Monday.. her nine month birthday.. I leave her at noon and go into the office for the afternoon. I get a call on my way home, it is Geoff.

He wants to know what time I left her..

noon I say why?

Because she "shit all over the bathroom"...

what.. I say.. how did she get to the bathroom

she broke down the gate and got upstairs...

Oh my... damn.. I shut the other doors upstairs but not the bathroom... crap... I tell him I am on my way home.. he asks "do you want me to leave it for you"... I swear he actually asked that.. I told him hell no.. suck it up!

So I get home and he is burning candles... and he left the rug in the bathroom so I "could decide what I wanted to do with it"... I washed it and it came out perfectly clean.. men!

So what is my take on the incident.. really I think it is funny and very smart of Akyra... now I know that she has not had a number two accident in the house since she was like nine weeks old... I swear.. so poor girl had an emergency.. and what did she do.. why she broke down the gate to get to the bathroom, because (in my mind anyway) that is where Mom and Dad go... so she will too!... how smart of her! Poor thing!