A
-- was when he was, uh, about eight months old and I did not know what to expect from a dog having not had one, and I left him in the kitchen with the little baby gates up while I was gone for about an hour. And I came home and he had ripped my wallpaper off my wall.
B
Oh, my word.
A
And it was in the floor and I just about lost it and I called and I said, come home and get your dog. And so, he said, well, puppies just chew when they're nervous and I, well, I wish you had told me --
B
Oh, dear.
A
-- you know, and it was about eight months later, he ate a piece of the linoleum. He kept picking at it and I didn't kn, the, the tile in the kitchen and picked a hole in it. So the last thing he did was, when I had sat out a whole lot of begonias in the backyard, and he dug them all up and brought them to the porch. And I told my husband, I said, you know, it's either me or the dog, and he looked at me like, well, you know.
B
Good-bye.