With that said, let's talk about my darling puppy. She is much bigger now so we were really really struggling to keep her in the kitchen with that silly puppy
gate (in the last post I mentioned she learned to climb over it, she now can jump it with ease). So in a desperate attempt to keep her in the kitchen and away from chewing up my shoes, we invented "the barricade." This was no ordinary barricade. This was a very well-planned, thoroughly thought out, excellently executed blockage. We did not have to buy a thing. All we did was take some plastic bin toppers and put them in front of the gate and held them there with a bar stool. Genius... for about 2 days. Because she learned she could knock over the plastic toppers if she jumped at them hard enough.
So the next plan was to put two bar stools in front of the said barricade to ensure proper security and keep them from being able to fall forward. Again, genius.... for about 5 days. My super intelligent puppy then learned that she could climb the side of the gate and use her head to push the bin topper to the side in order to make a hole big enough for her to jump out. I'm not exaggerating any of the details of this story... I have seen her smartness with my own two eyes. And I wasn't even mad... that was amazing...
So... needless to say... our genius ideas came to an end. Therefore, we went and bought a crazy expensive puppy gate. It's taller, its easier to set up, it has a door that we can open to get in and out of the kitchen without having to break down a barricade or climb over a gate, and the best part... it only has vertical bars... noooooo horizontal ones that make climbing easier on a smart little pouch! So I guess all-in-all, we got the best end of the deal and it was well worth the money :)
So... we hope this one proves to last better than the last one. Say a little prayer...
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