I'M ALL POOPED OUT!

I think I have just spent a few hours in Amanda's Crazy Life.

I am dog, cat, and house sitting for Cheryl and Kevin while they are in Disney World. My grandson Sammy spent the night here at their house with me. This morning when I got up I came down stairs to a horrible smell. I immediately went to the dinning room to see if Mira had left me a deposit on the floor. She has done that before when C and K went on vacation. There was a HUGE, (she weighs 90 LBS) pile of poop on the dining room carpet. Oh my gosh, that is where the terrible smell is coming from. I yelled, Mira come here. And of course she didn't move except to back away from me. So, I dragged that big 90 lb beast over to the dining room and showed her why I was so upset. I spanked her and put Mira and Violet outside. I was still yelling at her as I was putting them outside. Mira almost RAN to the door she was so afraid. Mira doesn't run but you should have seen her move. I thought well, I still have time to get this cleaned up before Sammy gets up so I picked it up and cleaned off the carpet. After depositing that mess in the toilet, I flushed the toilet about 4 times because the smell wouldn't go away. I got out the Febreeze and spayed the bathroom and the dining room and the kitchen. The smell didn't seem any better. I checked the bathroom again to make sure that there wasn't anything still hanging around in it and there wasn't. I checked to make sure I got all of it cleaned up and I had. I couldn't figure out why it still smelled. I had to get Sammy up because it was getting late. He came down the stairs and immediately put his pajama's up over his nose and said, what is that smell? I told him what had happened and that the smell should go away soon. After a little while I let the dogs back in the house. We continued to get ready for church. When we were almost ready to leave I put the dogs out side again just to make sure they went one more time before we left. It was getting really late by now and we were rushing to get out the door. I let the dogs back inside and asked Sammy if he wanted to put Violet in her cage. He went over to the cage and started gagging. He yelled, Grammy Violet pooped in her cage. I ran over to the cage and Violet had already gotten in it. I grabbed her out of there and she took off running through the kitchen. I started screaming and ran after her. She had that mess all over her feet. I got to her before she stained the carpet but she had tracked it on the hardwood floors. I could have died!!!!! I didn't know what to do. Here we are running late and I had to pick up a couple of kids for church and they would be waiting on me. My brother, the pastor of the church, was on vacation and I couldn't call him because they weren't going to be at church today. And I didn't know the phone number of the man that was in preaching today. I HAD to go! I looked in Violets cage and it was a terrible, stinky, mess. I grabbed an old towel and wiped Violet's feet and body off the best I could. All the time Sammy is gagging. I threw the old towel downstairs in the basement and thought, what should I do with Vilolet? I can't put her back in her cage and I can't let her run aorund. So, I put her in the basement and left for church.

When I got in from church the terrible smell was still there of course, I hadn't cleaned the cage yet. I let both dogs outside. Then I changed my clothes and dragged that huge cage out in the back yard. It was a lot of fun! Can you imagine me, a 57 year old fat lady dragging this huge cage off the deck, down the steps and through the yard to the water hose? I bet I was the amusement for the Subdivison today. ( Honey come here, you have GOT to see this.) I sprayed out the cage and that poop was everywhere. After I thought I had it all out I crawled in the cage to see if I got it all and to check the smell. I bet the neighbors HOWLED at the fat ladies big butt sticking out of the cage. I tried to dry it out but I was afraid to go all the way in because I could get stuck inside the cage. (After all it is made for a 100 lb animal not someone my size.) I left it in the sun to dry. I cleaned Violet the best I could but she still smells terribly. You have all seen the pictures of these VERY hairy, long fringed, dogs. Poop would definitely get caught up in that hair. I am going out to get the cage in a few minutes and decide what to do about Violet. I don't know if I can hose her off with the invisable fence collar on. I don't want to electricute her. (Although it went through my mind earlier.) Well, that has been my day so far.