NCIS: Rootstown, OH

Yesterday afternoon/evening was busy - I had a lot of outside stuff that I needed to do before it starts raining today, and the sun's setting around 530 now. I got home, had the dogs out to play and do their thing briefly, put them back inside, and got to work.

Image by voteprime via FlickrI came in from mowing, chopping/collecting leaves and talking with the neighbor down the street to find the Apocalypse in our house!!! Ok, so maybe I shouldn't have left Daisy out of her crate the whole time (lesson learned), but hello, she'd been in it all day, and had only the briefest run around outside before I needed them inside so I could do all the yard work.

Image by Dryad & Sprite Photography via FlickrWhen I came in, there was stuff ALL OVER the living room floor. And then there was more all over the bed!!! Brett got home just after I came in and then put the dogs out again - so I hadn't really had time to do much crime scene work. What we discovered was that she got up on the sofa to the side table in the living room, where Brett had 4 PEZ packages (each had a dispenser plus a wrapped up bundle of the candy - perhaps TWO sleeves of PEZ in each package?). He ALSO had a zip lock baggie with 3 mint choc ghirardeli chocolate squares inside (those super thin chocolates). Who knows what else was there. Anyhow, the PEZ packages were DESTROYED, with a Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Dracula and Werewolf lying there on the floor, in shock. All the PEZ candy? Completely devoured! (Plus most of the foil/paper wrapping!). There was also a chewed up Huntington bank pen lying in the carnage.

Image by StreetFly JZ via FlickrThen in on the bed was just some of the foil wrappers, green and shiny, from the ghirardeli chocolates. Oh, plus a squeaker from a dog toy (Brett rescued it from some destroyed toy last week, and had saved it on the side table). There was also a small damp spot on the blanket on the bed, mostly likely where a lot of licking of candy/chocolate had been done. Thankfully the dog slobber didn't go down through the blanket, AND thankfully there were no chocolate streaks.

I had Brett call the vet while I was doing the clean up. Thankfully they felt it was such a small amount of chocolate that, if anything, it should just cause the runs, but we were to monitor the dogs (most likely just Daisy).

And do you know what happens when you let a kid stuff themselves with that much candy? Ok, now scale that kid down to an 18 lb beagle, and you can just imagine how amped up she was all evening. OMG Absolutely batshit bonkers.

Thankfully, aside from lots of racing around in the house, lots of getting on our nerves, and lots of trips outside to go to the bathroom, there appears to be no other issues from last nite (well, unless you consider us out the four PEZ dispensers from Brett's folks!)