More new tricks.. :\

Kodo has had the run of the house while we were at work for a while now. But the last couple weeks he has gotten progressively worse at scrounging things and chewing and ripping them to shreds. We had gotten a little spoiled, because we never really had to puppy proof when he was younger. He would get an occasional tissue or paper towel,but other than that he was good. But the last couple weeks he has been escalating. Nail clippers, a ball of string, a CD, a couple sandals and shoes.. So we started picking up stuff off the floor (most of the above were either on the floor to start with or knocked off the counter by the cats) and trying to give him more exercise and things to do with Kongs while we were gone... but he just got more clever about finding things. This culminated in.. The Night of the Remote Control.

I must lead up to this by explaining that Bri is a bit of an A/V geek. He has lots of components hooked up to the TV, and since each of these components had their own remote, it got to be pretty complex figuring out which remote was needed and which buttons to press. So a long time ago he had picked up this giant programmable universal remote that could take the place of everything. Fairly expensive, complex, and pretty heavy piece of equipment, touch screen and everything. About the size of those old 'kid's first calculator' deals? and two or three times as heavy. Well Brian came home from work early, and Kodo had someone managed to pick it up off the coffee table with his mouth (I assume) and crunch a lot of the plastic casing and the touch screen into tiny plastic shards (he also got a book and a DVD case, but they weren't quite as big of a deal). That was the last straw- as of the next day Kodo was back in the morning room (10x20ish, tiled, more easily controlled environment) when we left him alone for any length of time. Everyone we talk to says that is typical of dogs at this age- particularly the large, active, working breeds- that they make up their own 'jobs' when they get bored. Everyone also says they grow out of it before too long. Fingers crossed! :)

'After' pictures: