This face that I have never seen intentionally hurt any other living thing. This face that has an intense excitement for the world around her and who has so much love to give that she knocks you down in the midst of that excitement.
A face that gets along with every other dog she has ever met. To her, everyone is a new friend.
If entered into a tournament for best personality, she'd win unanimously. Everyone that meets her, loves her.
Well...ALMOST everyone.
HOWEVER
This. This is our not so adorable back yard.
Little miss personality has dug herself escape routes, killed the rose bush (I mean, come on, who chews on a rose bush?!), broke the fence so that she has a 'window to the front yard', and made herself a bed in the rocks. (Despite having a perfectly good DOG HOUSE and a nice bed inside.
But that wasn't enough for miss Eleanore. May I present to you, her newest piece of art:
the trench.
Perhaps she wants to see the world and is working on an Express lane to China.
Or maybe she wants to kick-start her career as the first dogg-o landscapist.
Maybe she is an old soul and is reliving her days in the trenches of World Wars 1 and 2.
Perhaps she is drawing a literal line to separate her pooping corner from the rest of the yard.
Maybe there's a dinosaur buried in the backyard that only she knows about.
I don't know. But what I do know: she has destroyed our backyard. I know it's winter so there's no grass to be had in the pictures but the thing is, there is no dead grass left. The yard is solid sod. She has somehow managed to kill the grass too!
(Guess we don't need to mow now)
The main issue: we don't know what to do. Clearly she needs an outlet, but we can never catch her digging these monstrosities to try and correct the behavior. And we can't fix the yard until she stops making new holes, so it's kind of like: welcome to our home, don't look at our back yard.
We have plans to put in chain link fence in the lot behind our backyard (which is also our property) and give her a bigger space to run around, as well as give her a sandbox area to encourage her digging. We also would like to knock down our falling-down barn/shed and in it's place put a basic garage to park our cars under. And a driveway would be nice, too.
Then, we would knock down the wooden privacy fence that is the current backyard and put up a white plastic privacy fence that won't rot like our current one is, and use the space as a firepit/ grilling /outdoor entertaining area.
But....until we know if we are staying and putting down roots in this area, we don't want to do any of that. I would hate to start an expansive project and then two weeks later, my husband get a job in California or New York and us have to try and sell our house with all that going on.
All in all, I guess that even though it's an eyesore and makes me frustrated to look at, the trench stays. For now.
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