Sunday, June 13, 2010

My New Tenants


We have 2 1/2 weeks left before we are officially homeless.
I have been fixing up the house; repairing the broken fence, the dishwasher that refuses to clean dishes and the rotting doorframe. I painted the inside of the garage and inside every closet in the house. I know that might seem strange but when all my stuff comes out, what is left is 20 years of crayon and scuff marks.
I am trying to keep the house from falling apart, but it has been nearly impossible with 3 teenagers.
Dan and Lexi were having a fight on the staircase the other day and ripped the railing off the wall.
Someone put their hand through the screen door leaving a gaping hole.
Last night a mouse ran across the room and under the tv set, which explains the incessant noise I have been hearing in the walls the past month.
I assume his whole family has taken up residence here.
I tried a quick solution of putting mouse poison in the corner of the room behind the tv set away from the dogs.
Bad idea.
My shitzu squeezed behind it and had a little mouse poison for a snack.
I quickly called the vet who said I must bring her in right away to induce vomiting or she'll bleed to death.
Evidently ,this mouse poison makes the animal bleed out from every orifice.
What a horrible, inhumane way to die. Does the ASPCA know of this?
The vet put morphine solution drops in my dog's eyes which quickly induced vomiting.He said I was lucky to have caught it in time, and he has seen dogs who have ingested this poison literally bleed to death on his table.
I cried all the way home, my dog is going to be fine, and I have decided to let the mice live in my home.
I just hope the new tenants don't mind.

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