Great ideas ! The vet gave her Rimadyl for pain and antibiotics (just incase) Right now - I put a sock over her bandage . ( one of my old ones that I bought way too small. ) I taped the top and so far she hasn't bothered it. DH & I have to be gone tonight for about 4 hours - I just know the little stinker is waiting till we leave to have at it. I think I'm going to do what was suggested - go get some bandage stuff and wrap her foot up really good . At least this time if she tugs at it while we're gone - it'll take her till we get home to get it off. I'm off to check the site on how to wrap it. Thanks sooo much for the help . Believe me - she is never going NEAR our gate again (wasn't closed tightly )and she saw a dog across the street . Totally our fault and I'm sure we'll feel guilty about this the rest of our lives.Anyway - I'm so glad I have this forum to help me ! ((everyone))

I use bar cloths (bought in bulk) to wipe counters -- they're large, thick, and cotton. With an under-mount sink, I just fold it in half lengthwise,and hang it so that it's halfway on the countertop and half way hanging down the side of the sink, friction holds it in place. I always rinse and wring it out when I finish with it and before I put it there, so no puddles have ever formed. With under-mount sinks there's no caulking bead around the rim on the countertop to get nasty and moldy from having a damp cloth hanging over it, so no reason not to hang it there. I don't suppose you could do it if you had a wood countertop, but I'm assuming you're talking wood? I change towels out every morning, but use the same one throughout the day. It dries fairly well hanging there, I'm not sure if it drips into the sink from the hanging end, or if the water just evaporates, either way it has been working fine for a couple years now. Love the idea of a towel pig, but not only have I never found a suitable one, but I don't really need it, and am greedy with my countertop space -- especially near the sink, so no pig for me.

Congrats Linda..I'm happy for you as a first time new car owner. I want to do that one day, but I'll never know the new car smell since I have no sense of smell. If you can relate a new car smell to a flavor, what would it be? I can taste. :)

Don't feel bad. I can out-stupid that. My house has the wired smoke alarms with the battery backup, but I didn't know that. I have high ceilings and it's hard to reach the smoke detectors so I had dh check them for batteries. He couldn't find them and so we decided we didn't have any. One day, my smoke alarms started going off in some weird manner where they were going off periodically around the house. It wasn't a beep. We never got that. We got actual alarms. I gathered the pets and my one child who was home and called the non-911 number for the fire department. Except, this is a rather large area and I called a fire department that isn't mine. The gentleman I spoke to recommended I call 911 and have them send a truck over to check it out. I called and tried to make it clear I didn't have a fire, I got a ladder truck with lights and sirens. It turned left instead of right when it came into the neighborhood so it had to circle around this whole section of the neighborhood. So the neighbors were all alerted. The elementary school bus came by right after the truck got here so those kids and their parents all saw. My dd was on the bus and she was scared our house was on fire. The firefighters got in here. We found out that we did indeed have batteries and one had gone out. No beeping, but apparently the alarm is the second backup. The fire fighters left and I walked outside to several neighbors. I had to admit the fire truck was called because of a dead battery. On the bright side, these are all newer houses and now everyone knows we have battery backup and we know the fire station across the street isn't ours.