It is funny! Even I was laughing as I tried to pry open a window and all the animals were staring at me like "What are you doing? Looks like fun! Let us out too!" It started to be less funny the colder I got, but I'm warm again, so it's ok! Of course, no one believes that the dog did it. My mother-in-law called me a dumb blond!!! She doesn't think that Binky did it, even though it's impossible to lock the door from the outside! Whatever-I know you BPO-ers know that dogs are capable of much more than we give them credit for. I'm sure Binky could have unlocked the door if I had trained her to (something to work on!)
Don't worry about your mother-in-law not believing you - we told Father for weeks that Sapphire knew how to open the back door (it has a lever handle), but he wouldn't believe us until he saw for himself. He was CERTAIN that the door must not have been shut tight. If we aren't paying attention, she just opens the door and strolls in, after opening the screen door of course. (She either makes a hole by the screen door handle, wraps her paw around, pushes the handle, and pulls the door open - which is hilarious - or she just jumps at the screen until it is sufficiently bashed in for her to walk through it.) All she has to do is stand up and use a paw to press down on the lever. Then she can push it open. If she knew how to pull the door open to go out, she would; she pushes the lever down, but, for some inexplicable reason
, the door won't push open.
I hope she doesn't learn to lock or unlock the deadbolt on that door. It would be funny if Sapphire locked us out, but it would become a nuisance I'm afraid. Sapphire's "bash in the screen to open the door" trick was really funny at first too, but now she does it all the time. It isn't funny to be constantly fixing the screen, and the hole only gets bigger if we do not fix it.
I hope you can cure Binky of her new trick - or at least teach her how to UNlock the door!
Sofia
