Yesterday was a long day. A long day, filled with TSA lines and loud kids and turbulence and bad pretzels. But I was OK with that, because at the end of the day I had a very rare Night To Myself. No husband, no kids, just me, the pets, and maybe a John Hughes movie or two.
I got home at the end of this Very Long Day to find that Kekoa (I assume) had an accident. I sighed, blamed my husband for obviously not following proper Kekoa Escort Protocol in the morning, and cleaned it up.
She had peed a massive amount, enough so that the puddle sat there on the floor and worked its way under the couch. After soaking through the second towel and needing to get a third, I was a little concerned for her and her history of potential Cushings. I moved all the furniture around, marveling at the volume.
Once that was cleaned up, I went and grabbed a drink from the fridge and started to walk back towards the TV, and ended up stepping in another puddle. And because I’m apparently a moron, my first reaction was to assume she went and peed again while I went into the kitchen, because the alternative would be that water was seeping up through the floor through the concrete slab, and the thought of that happening on my Night To Myself was really just not OK.
Of course, that is exactly what happened.
Poor Koa.
I hate water leaks.
Dislike. Poor Dr. V! Oh the joys of home ownership 🙁
Ugh! Sorry your Night to Yourself was ruined, but I am SOO glad that it was not a Koa problem. Just look at that face! Love!
Better a water leak than a sick Koa! My sympathies!
we agree! 🙂
Oh man! Hope it wasn’t too bad and is fixed soon!
I am so sorry about the mess! Lately it seems there is water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink! Hope it gets taken care of quickly.
That sweet little face!! “It wasn’t me!!”
After having our water heater crack and flood our garage two weeks after moving into our new house I totally feel you.
Hi Jessica,
It’s so typical to blame husbands, kids and dogs (not always in the same order) that I hope you don’t beat yourself up over it too much. I’m sorry your night alone in the house was dampened (the pun is intended here) by a water leak, but it provided you with a cute post to share with the world.
I actually had a similar experience several years ago when I found a puddle near my washing machine and reprimanded my little Shih Tzu boy for emptying his bladder there. But when a couple hours later I prepared to do my laundry, I realized that it was the machine not the pup.
Sorry little guy, mommy was bad for blaming you! Good boy!
Same here. I had moved into my brand newly built house and a few months in, sometime during the night during a really bad rain storm the waterline backed up throughout the entire downstairs and water geisered out of the toilet and all the sinks. I came downstairs at 4 am on the way to the airport and stepped in a puddle, took a deep breath to holler at my shih tzu, and then went, Hey, wait, this is way tooooooo much water… oh noooooooooooooooooooo…. It’s so upsetting when houses attack. 🙁
Gotta blame somebody and the one who can’t defend themselves is usually IT. Great lesson to all of us! Though a chewed up carpet will most likely remain the dog’s fault, unless you find that some racoons were sneaking in the house 🙂
Hi Y’all,
I’m so sorry you had a “normal human day”. Most humans seem to have a less than satisfactory day. As a dog, I consider this normal for the species.
So glad Koa had a better day than you did!
Y’all come by now,
Hawk aka BrownDog
Bummer! Hang in there!