Not so innocent

Know what this is a picture of?

Bet you think it's a picture of our 2 adorable dogs snoozing away in our not-so-clean bedroom.

Well you're only partially right. They're snoozing away because these two yahoos went on a little adventure.

We've got 2 curious. active dogs and a weak fence. So we have an electric fence run around the perimeter. Apparently someone doesn't think that shock is "that big of a deal" because he just chewed through the wire. That's the little yahoo's work guaranteed (he's about a year old and we adopted him in February (goes by Captain).

The big yahoo is the runner though (goes by Guinness). He's been around for about 7 years but you still can't trust him to not bolt out the front door. And of course little man just follows him everywhere! So these two geniuses managed to get the fence deactivated and then make a run for it. The genius in the scheme ran out though as they managed to get themselves INTO another person's backyard and then couldn't get out. Whatever kind of fence that person has- we need it. So the homeowner notices these two dogs in his backyard and calls animal control.

Good news- both our boys have lifetime licenses with the city which means free pick up from Animal Control. They even drove them back to our house for us. I tried to take a picture of them getting out of the paddy-wagon, but my camera wouldn't cooperate. It's like their very own car service.

Now here's the bad-parenting part of the situation. We'd left the boys out in the yard while we went to a baby gender-reveal party. We came home, heard a bark and just went straight to our individual couches for a little afternoon snoozer. Oops. About 2 hours later we go check on the boys as we're getting ready to leave again and then notice they're gone. We're rushing to the car to go drive around and find them when Animal Control calls. So then we're rushing around to look like we just got home and hadn't actually been sleeping on the couch while our dogs were roaming the neighborhood.

Oh well, all's well that ends well right?? Coach fixed the fence, we tightened up those electric collars, and now we're vigilant about checking on them first thing home every time! We've learned that they're too sneaky by far.