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Note to self: never, ever, ever, ever, no never, not nohow, ever, ever leave the hall bathroom door open when self goes to work in the morning. Casey the Wonder Borkita is an old, slow-moving doggie, but he is half border collie and extremely neurotic and bizarre. One of his obsessions is getting in the bathtub for security purposes. Once ensconced there, he will snooze silently for hours. If you call him, he will lurk without making a sound. I think he believes we can't see him if he's in there. (He fills the entire tub!) Problem is, he has a hard time getting out of the tub unassisted. If no one is home to hear him scrabbling, he panics. When he panics, all his sphincters cut loose. At least it's in the tub, right? Oh, but when he does manage to slither, slip, and slide out of the tub, he invariably closes the door in the process, trapping himself in the bathroom, and creating more panic. And more mess, because of the sphincter thing again. The Samurai was first home today, and he wisely stuck Casey in the back yard, turned on the exhaust fan, and shut the bathroom door. I took a whiff of it when I got home, and decided to deal with it after today's gardening, which involved astilbe, bleeding hearts, thyme, and Extreme Weeding under the deck. There Be Spiders. When it got dark and I HAD to come in, I started by hosing off Casey's butt, as it had poop crusted on it. Not a good sign. Turns out the bathroom floor was awash in doggie weewee, but he'd actually pooped in the tub, right in the drain. That was fun to clean out, let me tell you. He'd also managed to smear his poopy butt everywhere. The door. The walls. The shower curtain. The cabinet. Did I mention that he got every single wall? Like cave art or something. Judging from effluvial evidence, he also sat on the toilet, then weighed himself. Three full buckets of germicidal disinfectant later, it's clean. It now smells like the vet's office always does. Clean and sterile, but with a definite canine whiff to it. Always, yes, always close the bathroom door. |
 
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