 Any one with kids?
I'm at my wits end. I clean, and vacuum. A LOT- and chews is afraid of the vacuum, but I do it for her. My husband cleans. We pick up food the second it drops. We even noticed her chewing on the bags the second we put them down after grocery shopping and up those went, too.
In the past 6 months, chewie has gone into the vet or the er vet for things that my daughter leaves out. Pencils. Crayons. Plastic tag holders. METAL for gosh's sake. Dark chocolate macadamia nut cookies one time!!! 60 friggin dollars to a poison control. I always calm husband down while keeping my daughter from getting "upset" at him yelling at her.
Well, yesterday, she left an eraser on the #$#$$ ground, and this was AFTER I put her art pencils, charcoals, markers, paints, etc, in either pencil bags or bins. FOR her. I have it easy for her to pull out and put back into each space. Chewie tore it to shreds and ate some before I caught her. It took all of the 2 minutes I was doing daughter's hair not even 8 feet around the corner of the stairs. I, for once, couldn't pretend that everything was alright. I lost my temper, and said, Sorry is NOT good enough. You are 12 years old, and it isn't CHEWIE'S fault, it's YOURS. She's a puppy doing what puppies do. Her response? She's not a puppy any more! She'll be a year on Halloween.
It's a good thing she was going to school. She's going to hurt Chewie badly. I am to the point where I just want to toss every single thing she owns. Is there any one on here that has dealt with this?
I hate to sound like an old fogey, but if I did that at her age, I would have been corporal punished. I wasn't allowed to act like that. I'm on here because I've been told by other people, oh my dog eats stuff like that all the time. Um.. your dog isn't 4 pounds. |