September 26th 2011 3:27 pm
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I have been know in the past to be an escape artist. Mom started with noraml baby gates to keep me in certain parts of the house when us four legged kids are home alone. You know the kind with a diamond grid pattern to them? Yeah, those. Took me no time at all to discover I could easily jump over those. Piece of cake! So next Mom stacked two of those baby gates - one on top of the other. This did not slow me down at all. I figured out I can climb that nice diamond grid. Hehe. So next Mom tried leaving a space between the two stacked gates. That worked for a little bit, but before you know it, that didn't stop me either. Mom adapted again though. Next she found some gates that are 40 inches high and have no cross bars. Now I have to admit those had me stumped ... for a bit. Hehe. I didn't earn the name Pogo-Pip for nothing. I found that by jumping high and higher I could get my front paws hooked over the top of the gate and pull myself the rest of the way. Ha ha ha Mom! You can't stop me. Well, I was wrong. She could. She used the tall gate with a baby gate stacked on top. That has worked for about a year or so ... until today. HA! Today when Mom got home I proudly greeted her at the front door. She first thought she forgot to put the second gate up. Boy was she surprised when she got upstairs to let the others out and saw it still up. She's about just shy of 6 feet and the two gates togehter end at about her chin. She assumes I jumped until I could start climbing the grid on the 2nd gate. She also wonders if this was prompted by a thunderstorm in the area, but I'm not telling her anything. She says she doesn't know what she is going to do with me, but is glad I don't appear to be hurt. Hurt, schmurt. I'm Houdini dog!

Barked by: NINA (Dogster Member)

September 29th 2011 at 3:44 am

CONGRATULATIONS, Pippi, on your
DIARY OF THE DAY honor!

CONGRATULATIONS!
(Click on link)

Enjoy your day on the community
homepage!
~Nina & family~

Barked by: Checkers 1994-2009 (Dogster Member)

September 29th 2011 at 7:25 am

Pip, you have to ask mom to set up a motion sensor video cam to catch you in action. I would love to see you accomplish this amazing climb!

Congrats on having the Diary of the Day, today.

xoxo ~ Checkers and BuddyB

Barked by: Pippi (Dogster Member)

September 29th 2011 at 4:34 pm

Thank you, Nina and family! I'm going to put that on my page.

Checkers and BuddyB, Mom has thought the same thing. She needs a motion sensor cam to see what I am up to. If we ever get one we will certainly let you know. Hehe.

Barked by: NINA (Dogster Member)

September 29th 2011 at 8:15 pm

You're welcome, Pippi!