Chiquita the Destroyer

Remember when I said that Chiquita was really gentle and hardly chewed on her toys?  Well, it turns out she doesn't like nubby things and when she's bored, she'll pull them off of whatever they are on.

See, when we first got her, she had this rubber chew toy shaped like a bone and attached to a rope.  I can't find it online, but the ends had little nubby things on them, sort of like this:

photo courtesy of petco.com

After 2 days, she decided she didn't like the nubby things, so she took them off.

Essentially she tore the whole thing apart trying to get the little nubs off.

And then she never chewed anything again.  Even when we bought her new (none nubby) chew toys.  But this weekend, while visiting with friends of ours, she was laying on a fluffy flannel blanket that had textured threads (nubby things) in it.  But since she doesn't like them, she tried to take them off.  She was stopped early on, and once her regular blanket was on top, she forgot all about the nubs.

So imagine our surprise the other night when cuddled up on her blanket, licking her sweet baby, Purple Monkey, she suddenly began to chew off Purple Monkey's nubby nose.  And left ear.  As well as licking off both eyes (that one is confusing, yes.) 

She's always been so sweet, gentle and loving to Purple Monkey that all I could think of was that he did something wrong and was being punished!

Oh the humanity.  Purple Monkey, what did you do to deserve such treatment?

What we've learned is that when this pup is bored, she'll start to chew nubby things.  So we have two solutions--no toys with nubs and we need to keep her mind active.  I'm beginning to think this was all a ploy for her to get more treats out of us for command training.  On a positive note--I have my own LOLdog to end with.

I think I destroyed my baby.