A Jasper Disaster!

This has taken me two months to face the fact that T-Rex (Jasper's new nickname) has done the most damage any dog known to mankind could do. Right after 4 days of the County Fair, he was feeling a little separation anxiety from his family. We've been told that a dog will destroy in the first 15 minutes of separation from their owner. So I can only imagine him going bananas.

And counter tops and table tops are no longer a place to stash items you don't want touched.

We came home to this mess!

He had gotten on top of the table and shredded everything in sight. We had been sorting through school stuff and had nice neat stacks on the table of curriculum to sell and what to store.

Well, Jasper solved the problem.

He not only chewed and shredded a brand new bible, a $150 math CD curriculum, lab books, magazines, binders...you name it, he got it!

Worst of all...

this is where I can easily hyperventilate with anxiety....

Worst of all, he chewed my portable hard drive with 9 years of family photos on them.

Our whole life is on that hard drive.

It is so difficult even thinking about it...it makes me sick.

And yet....God has blessed us so much that I just have to be happy with the pictures that I have on this blog and the ones that I have printed from Shutterfly.

It still makes me sick and anxious.

Photos of my family are so important to me. It could be worse though. We could have lost them to water damage or fire. I'm relieved that it was just an oversized puppy (14 months) who wanted his family.

 When we were standing over the mess, Jasper was running in and out of the house, like he wanted to be with us but then he's like "Oh Geeze! Look what I did!"

Sammy was following me around and whining non stop. He was really upset and wouldn't leave my side until I told him that he is okay. Then he stopped whining. 

And Henry...was like the police man. He would run over to the chewed CD's and look right at the damaged item and then look at me, like "look at this Mom! See what he did?! I told him to stop!!"

So, I guess if we had about $2000 we could send it to a forensic lab in California, they could rebuild it and retrieve the photos. I guess that won't be happening any time soon!