Wednesday, October 31, 2012

New Bed and a Wet Floor

Check out Chimi's new bed.  It's so soft and comfy, he will look forward to being shut in his bathroom now. His old inside bed went outside to his doghouse since that bed was pretty waterlogged and stinky from the hurricane.  It's a good thing Linda bought him the bed tonight, or she never would have known the toilet was leaking!  She's not even sure how many days it was leaking either.  Every morning before Chim comes out of his bed, she mops the bathroom floor with the spray cleaner and a Swiffer pad then dries it with an old towel.  (No wonder he's afraid of the mop, that's the first thing he sees every morning!)  Even though he doesn't have an accident 99% of the nights, she still walks on the floor barefoot and has a compulsion to clean it first.  She must have been mopping up the floor and not even realizing it.  Tonight when she knelt down to change his bedding, her knees got damp.  She checked the source and realized that the oval valve thing near the floor was slowly dripping.  It wouldn't turn by hand so she got this handy wrench thing from her tool box to shut off the water. Now that the tank is empty and the water is turned off,  it should be OK til tomorrow. 

While she was at Costco buying the bed, they had these 4 new woobies for only $8.  At two dollars a piece, she won't feel bad when they get destroyed.  She is only giving him one at a time or he'll be overwhelmed and have a melt down with more than one woobie to suck.  Linda gave me one, but I had zero interest in it so she took it back.  He chose the chipmunk first.  He already chewed a hole in its head, so Linda pulled all the stuffing and squeakers out so he wouldn't choke.  Now it's perfectly flat and ready to become his new favorite.