Ms Wonder Destructo Shonee

Updated 6/2008

I would like to introduce you to
Miss Wonder Destructo Shonee
She has got to be one of my favorite
fur-babies that does not live with me!
I have a lot of respect for her Humans!

This has got to be by far the best true stories I have ever read on this loving
breed!
All Stories are used with permission of author please do not copy

Huh, Shonee?? The wonder destructo dog?? She didn't outgrow her destructive ways until she
was nearly 6 years old -- prior to that this is a partial list of things she destroyed or got into:

She's capable of getting out of crates unless they have locks on them - any crate.
She can open any door knob and can turn a dead bolt thumb lock if it's within her reach.
She can open the fridge (she still does this if I refuse her something from there)
She can open cabinets, even with childproof locks.
Two years ago (when she was 7) she learned to turn on the oscillating fan (it was a push button
and not a dial).
The pens are padlocked mainly because she knows how to flip the latches (there are two latches
on each gate). When she's boarded or at the hospital, they have to padlock her run or she gets
out and visits the other boarders/patients.
One time when at the vet hospital for tests, while the staff was lunching in their lunch room,
Shonee escaped her 'run' and got into the file room -- I was told her had all the files from the
bottom two shelves strewn all over the hospital and had let several cats out of their cages as
well....no, she didn't harm the cats, she IS cat friendly.
She can slide open the windows (that slide from side to side and they must have keyed locks on
them to keep her from opening them).
She's eaten through doors, both hollow and solid - in the course of a few hours.
She's eaten through sheetrock (she did this within 10 minutes time) to get into another room.
She flushed her popped tennis ball down the toilet -- cost me over $1600 for a plumber to come
out -- took him 8 hours and then a new toilet to 'fix' the problem. When we broke open the toilet,
we found the tennis ball - she stood by with a grin on her face and couldn't figure out why I
wouldn't give her the ball back.
IF she can reach the faucets, she can turn the water on - resulting in several floods when we
were living in the city and couldn't keep her away from the outdoor faucet.
She's 'read' more library books then I care to remember -- at one time my 'fine' for lost books
was over $300.
When we were in the city, we had a 6 ft stockade type brick fence around the backyard. I came
home one day to her laying on the front porch. She had jumped on the air contioning unit and
pole vaulted over the fence, but couldn't get back in her yard. When we added barb-less
extensions to the top of the brick and barricaded the air conditioner unit, she tunneled over 6 ft
long and 4 ft deep in the course of a day to get out. Her doggy door was locked after that.
Her and a foster, who was a malamute mix tried dragging my component stereo out the doggy
door -- I caught them in the act, The foster with the receiver and Shonee with a speaker.

The list goes on -- but I'm sure you are laughing hysterically by now and get the picture of
exactly how smart this dog is or how stupid I am!

The response I got when I asked for permission to put her letter about Shonee on my site
Just wanted to add it as a tid-bit of info on how smart they can be!
I'm sure Shonee would be honored, if
she
understood! (Actually she probably does -- her vocabulary of words she

understands is better then 400 words at last count!)
Peg

A few links to some more adventures of Peg's crew are listed below, there will be more to come
in the future also.

Dusty's spot: www.dustydoodles.blogspot.com

Tundra's Story: www.dogsdeservebetter.org/tundra.html

I so love Shonee......she keeps things very interesting. I got
another story from her Human.....you will love it!
Kris.....

Honest, it was my fault. I'm still trying to figure out how, but I'm sure
it was.

About 4 years ago, Shonee, the wonder-destructo, mainly Sibe, flushed her
popped tennis ball down the toilet. This resulted in a new toilet and a
bill from the plumber for over $800. Poor guy spent ALL day at my house
trying to unplug said toilet and finally told me we would have to replace
it, as 'something' was jammed so tightly in there, it wasn't going to budge.
When he took the old toilet outside he broke it open and we found the
'popped' tennis ball. Shonee was ecstatic to have her ball back -- ummm,

Fast forward, you'd think I'd learn. I did learn, I kept the bathroom door
closed at all times. I even had a hook and eye type latch installed above
Shonee's reach, as I know she can open doors. Yep, I thought of it all.
Except human error.

The other night, hubby went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and
'forgot' to latch the hook and eye. When I got up at 5am, I went to the
bathroom. I opened the door and lo and behold, there is Shonee in the
bathroom. Not good -- take a step in, it's wet, as in flooded. Not only
that, seems Shonee, who is nearing 10 years of age, some how 'broke' the
toilet where it attaches to the tank and a flood resulted. I guess every
time the bowl drained, she'd flush it, creating another flood. Oh and to
top it off, seems she must of heard some 'animal' under the house and
decided to 'dig' under the toilet to find it. Yep, you guessed it, the
toilet was half through the floor, lopsided and totally useless. Lino
ripped, chewed and totally useless.

Shonee, she was smiling. Hubby doesn't remember her going into the
bathroom
with him, but I know the hook and eye were not latched when I got up. So
either she snuck in with him, undetected, or opened the door and then
locked
herself in. Regardless.. ..a week before Christmas, we spent all of
yesterday (this happened Sunday night) replacing the bathroom floor and
toilet and the water pipe connection to the toilet -- seems someone put
teeth marks in that as well.

Hubby is in there now, putting the 'finishing' touches on my newly
'remodeled' bathroom. The bathroom remodel cost over $1200 this time --
add
that to the $800 prior and well, this dog is expensive!!

Will it ever get better????

Merry Christmas,

Peg

Ms. Shonee

Dusty's own web page