We're not adopting Blondie, after all. On Thursday morning (we were supposed to pick her up from Lisa's house that evening), Lisa called Bruce to tell him that Blondie had attacked Lisa's dog, Oliver. One of Oliver's ears was damaged badly enough to require surgery. Both Lisa and her mother didn't think we should take in Blondie, in case she attacked our dogs, as well, and Bruce and I agreed.
It's difficult to understand why the attack happened, since Blondie seemed so sweet when we met her on Monday, and she had been living with another dog so it's not like she wasn't used to that. Bruce and I think perhaps it's because she was in heat when Lisa's mother brought her over to Lisa's house on Monday, and after a couple of days she might have begun feeling threatened by Oliver. Whatever the reason, we didn't want to risk having her attack Belle or Beau. She may be better off in a home with no other dogs. She was taken to an animal shelter, and I hope someone sees and adopts her.
Our dining room and kitchen floor will be installed on Wednesday. I'm SO excited about that (because the current linoleum is torn up in many places, thanks to Beau's puppyhood, and looks awful, and the tile will look so pretty), but it's going to be a challenge. The dogs will have to be kept out of that area all day Wednesday and perhaps even Thursday and Friday, while the grout dries (otherwise we'd have dog hair stuck in the drying grout). The door to the backyard is in the dining room, so that means I'll have to take the dogs out the front door and around the house to the side fence to get to the backyard at night and early in the morning when they need to go out/run around. And we'll have to put up one of our doggie fences to block off the kitchen and dining room. However, that's a temporary inconvenience and the end result will definitely be worth it. I'll ask Bruce to take before and after photos. (We should have done that before we had the new kitchen cabinets put in a couple of years ago, but didn't think of it at the time.)
The mould room, as I call it, is very bad for my lungs, so I'm glad we are getting closer to having that redone. Someone will come here next week to pull out the carpet in that room and take away some of the old furniture that has water damage, so that the room can dry out some more before the new carpet is put in. Also, we had a contractor come over yesterday to take measurements - he's going to replace the damaged wall once the room is dry enough. Then all the icky mould will be gone for good. My lungs can't wait!
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