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Carnage

zuzu

Oh, you bet she looks guilty.

Why? Well:

This is what greeted me when I got home tonight. Somebody got a little frustrated because she couldn’t get the pig ear out from behind the cushion where she’d wedged it for safekeeping.

Well, I was wanting a new couch anyhow. I was thinking of this one. You will note that it has no cushions.

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20 thoughts on Carnage

  2. God my first thought was the tampon eating discussion I last saw here. It was scary looking at that pic at first with that thought in my mind, I must admit.

    I Dane used to eat my fav shoes or get into the trash if she got left home alone too long. She always hid under the table upon my arrival. Tell me you dog people, that dogs don’t know and think I’m going to believe ya.

  3. Oh they (cats and dogs) know when they are bad. They just “play” innocent.

    I used to have a dog Dexter who would always hide bones, only to forget where he hid them… till I cleaned up and would pull one out from behind something, like the tv. He would snach it out of my hand, chew on it for awhile, and then go off to hid it again. Really this place is like a treasure hunting dog’s dream.

  4. My dog chewed up her Chuck-It last week. it almost — ALMOST — made me wish she was a child, because we could at least tell a child, “You don’t get another one because you ruined the first one.” But alas, she is a black lab and we had to buy another damn toy.

  7. awww… she’s a dog, not an asshole 🙁 bummer about the sofa, though. I’ve heard that pets are good practice for kids b/c they teach you not to sweat destruction of your home.

  8. I should mention that there was a hole in the fabric of that sofa where it had been weakened by the cats picking at it in their younger days.

    I should also mention that this is the first time in the nearly three years that I’ve had her that she’s done something like this. I suspect the fact that I haven’t been able to take her on good long walks much for the past few months has something to do with the presence of pent-up energy. That, and the pig ear thing.

  9. Oh. My. Dear. That is one destructive little dog. However, I can sympathize as my 10 pound Italian Greyhound has destroyed: 1 good purse; 3 pairs of Doc Martens (does she go for the cheap shoes? No); two bras; two kitchen chair cushions (place looked like a snowglobe) and so many pencils, pens and sticky note pads that we’ve lost count. Now that she’s a little older and we’ve stopped underestimating her climbing ability things are better. Thank goodness she’s never gone after furniture.

  10. The animals in my house (2 cats,1 dog) love my couches… as scratching posts and chew toys. The cats have clawed all over the fabric and the dog has chewed all over the wood. And the cats, desperate to get away from the dog I guess, even clawed a hole in one of the couches to create a safe hide-away for themselves (I gave up trying to sew it up after awhile, cause they just kept clawing it back open).

    They also (all three) for some reason think my daughter’s room is a bathroom! Yuck! It doesn’t help that her room is always messy. When I clean it every other weekend, an hour later it’s dirty again, literally. Drives me nuts.

  11. LOL! The couch should never have stolen the pig ear. Bad couchs! Junebug merely taught the couch a lesson in what happens when a treasure is taken.

  13. I’m just in awe of all the exposed wires next to the couch. The furniture in my apartment is a very carefully arranged jigsaw puzzle meant to hide every single wire from my chew happy cat. I have many large floor pillows tucked into odd nooks and crannies. This was pretty much my only option after he first managed to record five minutes of himself playing with a toy on my answering machine before just going ahead and chewing all the way through the machine cord. He also likes to dig up the carpeting in the corners of rooms and doorways. Thank goodness neither one of them have shown an interest in furniture.

  16. zuzu;

    It’s a little low-slung, like a lot of modernist stuff to sleep or sit on these days. Not a big deal for me as I have short legs, but even I can sense the difference from a standard couch. The seat is a little longer than usual as well.

    After that, the angle of the back can be pretty much adjusted to suit, and it sits (and sleeps) comfortably. It’s built more as something to lounge on that sit on, though. (A perfect thing for watching movies or TV, for example, though I don’t use it for that.)

    And, completely flat, no painful point of where the back and seat join.

    In short, I love it, though it leans toward a futon in design more so than a couch. I only wish they had followed thorugh on a dark-as-night blue version that they were planning but fobbed off creating for this year.

    If you want something that molds you more into a straight-backed sitting position, like your former couch, pass this by. (But to be honest, I think you’ll have the same problem with your first choice.)

    Or consider this…

    http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Product/0,,a10-c440-p77,00.html

    …but it costs a small fortune. I could just barely afford it myself, but I’m loathe to buy stuff I don’t need, and the way the economy and job situation is, my preference right now is to pay off my car and various debts as fast as possible.

    Your milage may vary though… 😉

  18. Ooh, thanks for the links. I do like that flip flop sofa, and I had looked at that at one point. I do like that it’s a sleeper and has a removable cover, and I’m all for lounging. The current (destroyed) sofa is a hand-me-down from my grandmother that I had reupholstered, so it wasn’t necessarily what I would have chosen had I been shopping for a sofa.

    I think I’m going to send off for fabric swatches from the two sofas at cb2 to see which would be more durable. I have some concerns about the cinema sofa’s linen/cotton cover and how well it will stand up to scratching and picking. I also just got a well-timed property tax rebate from the city that will go a long way toward allowing me to get a replacement sooner rather than later.

  19. Zuzu;

    My cat has loved sleeping on three things above all else in this home. The flip-flop sofa is one of them. The more he loves sleeping there, the more likely he is to treat said area very gently.

    If you set a small blanket over a portion of whatever you buy before you leave the home and convince your dog beforehand that that is their “spot”, that will give them a “sense of ownership” and what they own, they usually try to teat nice.

    I know, this sounds weird when we’re talking four-footeds, but so far, in my home, it works.

    Bang for buck, I recommend the flip-flop sofa. The rust/orange one especially – the brown one is just too bland.

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