Naughty Sophie

Since Max died three months ago, Sophie has been pretty lonely. They were litter mates and lived together for almost ten years. I understand that. Whereas Max and Sophie used to pretty much spend most of their lives in the kitchen, Sophie now wants to come and go in the living room as she pleases and makes this damned awful noise if we leave her downstairs when we go to bed. She's our little girl, our princess. How can we deny her?

Look at her! This is a photo our 5 year old granddaughter took of her on Christmas Day. You'd think butter wouldn't melt in her mouth wouldn't you? So sweet, so innocent!

Unfortunately, she also gets bored and that happens when we leave her by herself when we go out. We started coming home to her having been in the kitchen trash and literally trashing it all over the kitchen. So we got wise. After a few times of her doing that we would put the trash can in another room or up on the counter to foil her plans, but our Sophie is a clever one. 

Today while we were at church, she came up with something else to say "This is what you get for leaving me alone!". We discovered that we had left the sliding door to the pantry a little open and she had gotten in to the shelf where I keep my dried foods. There were bags of rice and kidney beans on the floor and the contents were spilled everywhere. Almonds, cranberries, seeds with the bags ripped open. I found one bag with a single dried apricot in it!

Can I just tell you that vacuuming grains of rice from off the floor is not what I choose to do on a Sunday morning. What will she do next?