Neither Star Nor Cody is a chewer. But, as some of you may know, Cody is terrified of being left alone. When I first got Star I took her to the vet and left Cody at home. She clawed open my brand new, quite expensive custom interior shutters that were hinged closed, then bit through most of the window grill before she managed to get the window opened high enough to jump out of the screen!! Yikes! In some of the pics I've posted you can see her paw-work!!

My beloved lab Jingles (Rainbow Bridge) was, like Star, an eating machine. One day I had her in the back seat of the car. I had stopped at the donut shop. On our way home, I later stopped at the dry cleaners. When I got back to the car, that ole sinking feeling. "What's wrong with this picture?" Well, there was Jing, tail wagging, nose plastered to the window, her face COVERED in powdered sugar. But what a considerate girl. She did leave me one of the DOZEN donuts! THE ONLY PLAIN ONE IN THE BOX!!

Oh, I forgot. Star loves to garden. Her real talents lie in pruning. Especially my favorite shrubs! One day she was outside, barking beneath the family room window for me to go out and play. I ignored her. BIG mistake! When I went to bring her in an hour later I saw that she had totally uprooted my favorite lilac by the back door! Oh...."She who will not be ignored!" (If any of you has ever watched "Rumpole of the Bailey" on PBS you know what I mean!)

Star doing her early spring pruning!



[This message has been edited by tatsxxx11 (edited May 19, 2001).]