Story of my LIFE

I have three puppies. One is 12 and 1/2 years old and nothing in the universe phases him (probably why he's lived so long LOL). Two are brother and sister and they are four years old. They will be five on New Year's Day.

Butterfly is my little girl puppy and even though she is beautiful she is also dumb as a box of rocks (possibly dumber). She absolutely HATES it when I sweep, and she absolutely HATES it when I vacuum. I understand the vacuum is noisy and it can scare a sensitive puppy.

I have been working on training her to not react as much while I'm vacuuming, and I was working hard on it today, because I'm cleaning the basement.

She was doing relatively well all day, then I started cleaning under the stairs. This required me to first clean off the stairs, then get under the stairs with the shop-vac and suck up all the cobwebs. Butterfly was on the stairs watching me (I can only hope to see if the vacuum killed me so she can attack it) and then I hit a stair wrong and it bounced out and sucked on her leg.

This dog went absolutely insane. She tried to get her head through the stairs to bite the vacuum and when she couldn't do that she got RIGHT ABOVE me and then peed.

On the stairs.

Which then dripped.

Down the stairs.

And THROUGH the stairs
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I was less than pleased.

Kids are running down wondering why I'm screaming.

Butterfly runs away and hides in her bed [cage].

When I realized what was happening I thew the hose to the shop-vac on the ground (still on) and I got out from under the stairs.

At this point ALL the dogs are in their cages because I'm yelling obscenities LOL.

I actually think I was angrier that there was dog urine on the stairs I had JUST. CLEANED. AND that I had been stacking things on the stairs that needed to go upstairs/in the garage and now all of THAT had dog pee puddling under it than I was that there was pee on ME. (I'm a mom ~ pretty used to it.)

In any case I gave the two other puppies a treat and put them all to bed while I went upstairs (writing this) to take a break. (I did put down dry-sweep on the pee and shut off the vacuum.)

Needed a break anyway ~ I haven't left the basement except to walk the dogs (which incidentally I had done within ten minutes of getting peed on) ALL DAY.

I have maybe a fourth of the basement done. I didn't realize how bad a job people were doing cleaning down there. They were actually doing the OPPOSITE of cleaning. I found the sour cream we've been missing for two weeks (hint: it was NOT in the refrigerator) and some clothes behind the dryer (WHY??). I had to spend over an hour cleaning off the table I told people to never put anything on because I needed it as a folding table (I've been using the pool table as a folding table today and putting the folded clothes in baskets on the ground).  When the kids set up the filter system for the turtle's aquarium they just threw the cord on the ground where it's been getting stepped on and kicked and stuff and quite frankly it would be dangerous for people to walk over there, so I reran the cords behind the other things along the wall like a normal person. The last time we got food for the turtle (last weekend) I told Tank (the turtle's owner) to dump the bucket after he gave the turtle the fish.....it was still there, complete with about a dozen dead fish and three dead crawdads (wtaf?).

And all this has just been in the fourth of a basement I've gotten cleaned.

So yeah.....I'm going back down there soon to keep on a'truckin' and I will walk the dogs again and they will still be able to watch me..........but only after I'm done with the stairs.

:)