ok, so we have had a canine crisis.......i made a quick trip home in late afternoon before i was due to do a supper delivery to a local factory.....we rarely do suppers, by the way.........i wanted to check on the pup that grandma left here til tuesday..........i parked outside the gate so she would not get out while i carried my stuff into the house.......the first thing i see is that our dog has made a bed out of the planter with the calladiums and coleus.........he had completely flattened/uprooted them all so that he can squeeze his mangy, good-for-nothing self inside.....while i was dealing with our dog's carnage, princess disappeared...........i saw her for only a fleeting moment and then she was gone.......i looked everywhere inside the fence...nowhere....i checked all the gates...the one under the deck was not locked......she could have gotten out.....so i walked every yard int he neighborhood in 90 degree swamp-like heat....yelling for that dog.....no princess............i went back to our house....looked under every bush and behind every plant.....there was that dog.....behind a rosebush...shaking like a leaf.......hiding from me..........she had seen me yell at oscar about ruining my plants, and she was afraid of mm............so now she is sitting on andrew's lap....chilling out....and trying to figure out who this crazy woman is that yells at dogs..........