I think I saved the catz lives that day (he spells it “catz”). Think he sent me an email about it instead of squeezing the japapeno starts out of their bodies. If I recall right, the catz spent the rest of the day in banishment outside.
My little Yorkie and yours wouldn't do such a horrible thing.
Yorkies were bred in Yorkshire, England (been there, didn't see a Yorkie), to dig in holes for rats (which is why they are small). True to her heritage, when only a couple of months old, she began to dig holes in the sheetrock wall inside my front door. I tried everything, but she was not going to quit. She would lick the sheetrock until she got it damp, then use her paws and dig a freaking hole, which she did - more than once. I got doggie pepper spray which one sprays on the whatever is threatened with doggie attack and it's supposed to make them quit doing bad things - didn't work. I was spending my whole day watching the wall and her.
Gave up and got a man to place wall material like one puts in a shower, the slick wall sheet, on that wall like wainscot paneling, and she never approached the wall again - she knew she was out of the hole in the wall business.
So, I guess his catz aren't so bad after all.
Did your Yorkie try to dig holes in your house like mine did?
Did your Yorkie try to dig holes in your house like mine did?
You have one determined little girl there! That's actually pretty adorable. I guess when I see my critters doing some natural instictive behavior, instead of getting mad at them I think it is cute. (Except for the spraying thing!)
Cooper hasn't destroyed much around the house - not even his own doggie toys. He does try to 'bury' bones in the house - scratches at the chair or couch to dig up the dirt, then gently places the bone the 'hole', then meticulously covers it up with 'dirt' with his nose, pushing the 'dirt' from all directions. I think that is smarter than actually burying it outside where he would have to eat real dirt when he retrieved the dirty bone.
I think he is confused about a yorkie's original mining job, though, because he is much more interested in birds than ground squirrels when we go to the city parks. But he will try to get into the squirrels' holes though, and tries to dig to make them bigger. Once, he had a sneezing attack for 20 minutes because he breathed in all that loose dirt. Luckily, a vet visit wasn't warranted after all.