My family has adopted a new dog, she's a month new with us and she is
a sweet 2 1/2 year old Lab/Shar Pei mix. She looks nothing like a Shar
Pei, and more closely resembles a smaller black lab. She's a Pound
Puppy, through and through. We have no idea what her history is, so we
know nothing of her potential "quirks". Well, I think we've recently
discovered some of them.
Let
me give you a bit of back story first. For the past year, I have been
slowly knitting a scarf for my husband, a beautiful, soft, cashmere
scarf. My goal is to complete it before this coming winter. Time is
crunching closer to my end date, so I've recently picked it up again
after having put it aside this summer due to purchasing our first home
(that's a different train of thought for another time). Well, my dog,
Kayla, has been exploring our home and getting familiar and comfortable
with her new surroundings. This is a wonderful experience to witness
and be able to participate in, I have wanted a dog for such a long
time. Anyhow, this past Monday, she wanted to explore my knitting box
and discovered my nicely wound ball of cashmere yarn for my scarf
project. She wanted to taste it's silky smooth texture between her
teeth evidently, and tore this ball apart, like she has her toys
before. I caught her red pawed, and was utterly dismayed at what I
saw. Hindsight I wish I would have taken a picture of it, but my
emotions were too close to the surface to think rationally about the
whole situation. Luckily, she did not touch the scarf that has been
already made. I was at a loss, I cried. I admit it, I broke down and
cried like a child who's favorite toy just broke. This is what I was
untangling for the next four hours. Mind you, these pictures are after
two hours of untangling already.
This
is my end product of dangling: I'm quite proud of myself, I'm not
going to lie this was a very trying task for me. I look forward to
being able to finish this scarf before the winter comes, so that I can
actually give this to my husband. You can already see the project
taking form, when I'm done, I'll be sure to take better pictures of it
and show you the end product.