How do you spell DESTRUCTION???

How do you spell DESTRUCTION????
R-A-I-D-E-R. And no, I'm not talking about the Texas Tech Red Raiders, although so far they are doing well.
The pictures that follow were taken on a series of 3 days -- each day worse than the one before. Within less than a day of getting Raider these dog toys, each of them was torn up. Not really surprised by most -- but the blue frisbee you see was supposed to be pretty indestructible -- well not so much.. he already chewed the edges off.



Then one morning in a matter of 15 mintues while Nesha was walking Mason to the bus stop, Raider proved he could get out of his kennel. He was found on our bed tearing up our comforter. This comforter is not old. I have had it less than 6 months, so this was especially maddening.
We figured if we put an additional pad lock on the kennel, we could keep him contained, and it did actually work a few times. However, Sunday morning, I did not get the lock squeezed tight enough to where it clicked in place. This was a mistake I won't ever make again. We came home after church and lunch to find out house ransacked. Quickly we discovered, because of the smell, that Raider had managed to turn the gas on 2 of the burners on the stove top!! So DANGEROUS! We had to open the windows and air out the house. The previous day, I bought a big box of oatmeal -- 40 packages to be exact. Every package was scattered throughout the kitchen and living room. Some of them were opened and the oatmeal was sticky and gooey on the floor.

I had also purchased a big box of 120 kitchen trash bags. These were also scattered and torn about. I saved a good amount of them, but many were also bit and torn and were themselves, trash.

Mason's backpack was ripped from the hook in the laundry room and completely ruined. the strap and back part of it were left hanging on the hook, while the front zipper part and pockets were in shreds. The same was true of Brian's lunch cooler. Pieces were found around the house. Maya's backpack was touched, but not ruined -- he just pulled Sleepy Beauty's dress off.

My laundry basket, which was back in my closet was obviously dragged thru our bathroom, bedroom and into the hallway where I found it. My dirty clothes were strewn around the house. The fake tree knocked over, the comforter and sheet off our bed and drug into the living room. A pillow from our bed stripped of it's pillow case, the case ripped in shreds. Plastic cups, a plastic water spray bottle, various toys all chewed and ruined. One of Maya's soccer shoes - he chewed the toe off of and they are ruined as well. 23 of a 24 pack of Zyrtec (allergy medication) was also scattered all about. The cable remote control was chewed and ruined... I'm sure Time Warner will charge us a pretty penny for that!

And these pictures just show a little of what I have described. I was shocked. We were gone for roughly 5 hours. We will be coming up with some new way to contain him and protect our stuff!