Kiko's Obsession

Maybe it's just our dog, but Kiko seems to be obsessed with destroying her toys. That's why according to Azam, she cannot ever have anything nice! The dog will worry away at knots with an intensity that reminds one of people who are so high that they become totally unaware of everything around them. She fixates on the knot on the rope toys until they are totally gone. Then she heaves a sigh of relief as if she's just completed the most burdensome of tasks. The same thing happens with squeaky toys. Kiko will rip them apart until she gets to the plastic squeaky. She then proceeds to destroy the squeaky. Maybe she doesn't like the sound...perhaps it is irritating to her sensitive ears...maybe she's just curious....or maybe it's her pet peeve...or suffering from OCD....sometimes I wish that I could really speak dog!
Poor Lyra, she literally hides in order to play with her toys. It is amazing in itself that she knows that her "Mr Fox Fox" ( a little stuffed fox), her keys, and her little rubber tire must only be played with in the bedroom. She will come to the room, and play very quietly, not a whisper out of her in case the Monster (Neda and Azam's pet name for Kiko) comes searching. The odd time that Kiko discovers her in her guilty pleasure, we run to grab the toys and hide them.
Lyra tries with all her little heart to save the toys. Last night Kiko got it into her head to investigate the "Kong Wubba". You would think that she would take the purple defective one that Ansaar got on sale....No, of course not! Kiko took the perfectly good red one and proceeded to tear it apart while a helpless Lyra sat there, literally begging her to stop. Lyra can be very vocal and her howls really sounded like "no, no, no" - I kid you not! Of course, Kiko just looked at her and totally ignored her. By the end of the night, there was not too much left of that Kong Wubba!
So far the only thing that has proven indestructible is a rubber bone that we got at Old Navy of all places! That's the best $7.99 that we've ever spent on toys!