I don't even know where to begin. My nice and her 12 year old daughter were staying with me for the weekend, because they had an affair to go to. Her daughter asked me if she could put Izzy outside in her pen for me while I was getting dressed. Thinking that she was responsible enough I told her OK because the weather was nice enough for her to stay out for the day. Well, she didn't put her in her enclosure, she put her in the flower garden. We ate breakfast, they went off to their party, and I went to church, and then shopping for most of the day. Late in the afternoon I went out to check on the weather and make sure Izzy was in her hide for the night. She was no where to be found. I took the top of the hide off and took out every bit of leaf litter and nothing. I looked under every plant...there really isn't any place to dig under in the enclosure because I have a lot of ground cover and plants. I became frantic and called my niece on her cell phone and she asked her daughter where she put Izzy, and she said that she forgot her in the flower garden.
The flower garden leads into the back of the yard where there is 25 Cyprus trees all about 15 feet tall. The back and sides of the yard have a retaining wall that goes 4 feet down and 4 feet up and then a fence around the whole yard. The only other exits are the two gates on either side of the house, that lead to the front of the house, and they go down to the ground. When we did our yard we made sure there was no way for my two Chihuahuas to get out as one of them is only 2 lbs. There is no way for her to dig under the retaining wall that is around the back and sides of the yard. I checked the whole flower garden, but there is plenty of places for her to dig under plants .....I squeezed through the big Cyprus trees....all 25 of them....I am full of cuts and scratches...I still can't stop crying...I am sick and devastated. They didn't come back to the house tonight as the kid was embarrassed to face me....I was screaming like a nut. I have no one to blame but myself. I never let anyone handle my animals, and I should not have trusted her, but, she has been here many times and knows where the enclosure is and we all hang out there to look at my Izzy and Pio in there. I put some pans of water in the flower garden, and also two pans in where the Cyprus trees are. I'm never going to stop searching...but there are so many spots for her to hide. I usually go get worms where the Cyprus trees are and bugs as there is so much compost there from fallen leaves, so if she is in there she will have plenty to eat, and the dirt is soft if she has to hibernate...I am a mess....I just had to post this to vent a little, and now I'm so cried out, and tired I'm just going to bed. I'm not going to tell my grandson Tim, until he gets home because I don't want to ruin his vacation. He loved Izzy and has been helping raise her since I got her....
The flower garden leads into the back of the yard where there is 25 Cyprus trees all about 15 feet tall. The back and sides of the yard have a retaining wall that goes 4 feet down and 4 feet up and then a fence around the whole yard. The only other exits are the two gates on either side of the house, that lead to the front of the house, and they go down to the ground. When we did our yard we made sure there was no way for my two Chihuahuas to get out as one of them is only 2 lbs. There is no way for her to dig under the retaining wall that is around the back and sides of the yard. I checked the whole flower garden, but there is plenty of places for her to dig under plants .....I squeezed through the big Cyprus trees....all 25 of them....I am full of cuts and scratches...I still can't stop crying...I am sick and devastated. They didn't come back to the house tonight as the kid was embarrassed to face me....I was screaming like a nut. I have no one to blame but myself. I never let anyone handle my animals, and I should not have trusted her, but, she has been here many times and knows where the enclosure is and we all hang out there to look at my Izzy and Pio in there. I put some pans of water in the flower garden, and also two pans in where the Cyprus trees are. I'm never going to stop searching...but there are so many spots for her to hide. I usually go get worms where the Cyprus trees are and bugs as there is so much compost there from fallen leaves, so if she is in there she will have plenty to eat, and the dirt is soft if she has to hibernate...I am a mess....I just had to post this to vent a little, and now I'm so cried out, and tired I'm just going to bed. I'm not going to tell my grandson Tim, until he gets home because I don't want to ruin his vacation. He loved Izzy and has been helping raise her since I got her....
