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• Sep. 26, 2006 - The Peril of Pontoof

    Pontoof has struck again.  I honestly don't know what I am going to do with that dog.  Last week he spewed some vile stomach acids on the carpet in the three season porch.  This is right in the midst of our move-in.  Unbeknownst to me, ds#2 'cleaned it up.'  After a day I began to smell the stuff and inquired of the children what had happened.

    Well, I tried to clean it up better (soaked it with a solution) and then later sprayed a commercial product on it.  Apparently it liked the stuff because it smelled worse than ever.  I finally found some Odo-Ban and got it to the point where the odor was only noticeable on a hot day (thinking that later this week I would run the carpet cleaner in there and take care of some other dirt spots, etc.

    Pontoof struck before I could do so.  Sometime this morning he decided that he needed to stir up the smell, so he spent some time (it had to be at least 15 minutes or so) digging at the carpet and chewing on it.  Now, this is outdoor carpeting so it is very tough and very thin.  He managed to rip up a good14-inch strip of it and shred the fibers so that it looked like they had blossomed into a blue flower or something.

    Dh came home at lunch and spent about 20 minutes telling me that he should've put that dog in the pound months ago.  If there was ever an argument against getting a dog of unknown parentage, Pontoof is the classic example.

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