Bad Boy Jerry

Jerry wearing Paul's half eaten pj pants.

Well for those of you who received the Christmas card that said "Santa, we've been good all year...." Jerry just may have been telling a lie. Although Jerry has been easy to train mostly because he is very smart his little genius schemes have gotten him into big trouble. He is crated during the day while we are at work and he has figured out a way to "reach" things (usually articles of clothing) hanging from the closet, across the floor, the laundry basket, a few feet away from his crate and weave them through the bars and eat them. Not entirely but usually enough so they are ruined and no longer wearable. When we arrive home we find the clothing stuck in the bars of the crate and Jerry runs and hides because he knows he is in BIG TROUBLE. We have moved his crate numerous times but every couple of weeks he is back up to his old tricks again. So of course days after I sent out the adorable Christmas cards what does the little bugger do but eat Paul's pajama pants out of the laundry basket at least three feet away from the crate. We are convinced he gets mad at whoever locks him up in the morning and then spies for something that belongs to them. He then moves the crate during the day to get closer to the object until he can reach it. I know it sounds far fetched but he does this often. We couldn't figure out a good way to punish him aside from putting him in his crate until we realized he doesn't want anything to do with the object once we find it. So after we found Paul's pajama pants half eaten, Paul made Jerry wear them for the rest of the night. Jerry was horrified. He wouldn't get up off the floor. He laid on the floor motionless and watched Tom play. Maybe this time he will learn not to eat our clothes. For those of you wondering Tom is wonderful he does not eat clothes or anything else. But, he is probably sleeping on the bed all day because we keep finding tennis balls hidden on the bed.