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The work of a monster

Scrounging for Feathers

Posted on February 6, 2012 by azwanderings

 

The work of a monster
The work of a monster

I heard my wife scream and as I walked into the house I could see the destruction from the kitchen. We have two dogs, Budder and Wiley. Budder is the older of the two and has spent his last 5 years out of his cage and free to roam the house while my wife and I are at work. We have only had Wiley for about a year and a half and although he is the sweetest, mellowest pup you’ve ever met, we’ve never really trusted him out of his cage while we are out of the house. The few times we have allowed him to hang out while we ran some errands, he destroyed a shoe and the other time he ripped the sheets off our bed. So for the last several months he’s been spending time in solitary confinement while my wife and I teach during the day. We have slowly started leaving him out of his cage while we ran to the store and then for a little longer one time when we went out for dinner. We thought we had turned a corner and Wiley has been spending his days out of the cage for the past two weeks. Until today. Who knew there were so many feathers in a couch pillow.

Fly tying anyone?

10 thoughts on “Scrounging for Feathers”

  1. mr blur says:
    February 6, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    that pic cracked me up. sorry. I knew exactly what happened. he’ll get over it.
    *still chuckling*

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    1. CHUCK MURRAY says:
      February 15, 2012 at 3:23 pm

      I wonder how many french fries you can get out of a “Couch Potato?”

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  2. azwanderings says:
    February 6, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    I wasn’t too happy at the time but now it makes me grin just thinking about how much fun he was having. He really is a great pup with an awesome personality, but he sure does love ripping stuff up. He’ll sit and watch me tie flies until I accidentally drop some fur or feather on the ground. Now that I think about this, the whole situation is probably my fault. Don’t tell my wife.

    Ben

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  3. cofisher says:
    February 6, 2012 at 10:06 pm

    Yep, been there and done that. Hmmm…fly tying, never thought of that.

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  4. Sanders says:
    February 7, 2012 at 6:36 am

    Well…all I can say is that I feel your pain. Three paws forward, one paw back…

    Reply
  5. Gary says:
    February 8, 2012 at 5:33 am

    That combined with some dryer lint will make awesome soft hackles!

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    1. Jon says:
      February 10, 2012 at 1:26 pm

      Brush out some of the underfur from the dog, combined with the feathers for soft hackles; custom tie!

      Reply
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  7. kurt finlayson says:
    February 15, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    Thats great! You outta see what a couple of my kids can do to a couch!

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    1. azwanderings says:
      February 16, 2012 at 12:17 pm

      Ha. I hear you Kurt. Dogs are enough right now in my life. I can’t imagine throwing kids in the mix. I don’t think we’d have a couch left.

      Ben

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