Including mine.

Last night I went to see Jeff Garland and Michael Moore in conversation at a theater in Los Angeles. Danni has been known to break out of her crate by opening the door so I've been successfully securing it closed with carabiners.

Well, last night she managed to get through anyways. I came home hours later to a bedroom that was entirely covered with water. I'm talking at least an inch or so. She had managed to turn the sink on in the attached bathroom AND pull the stopper up. She ripped paint off the walls and doors, ate our comforter, our pillows and some of our laundry.

Nothing is missing, so I know she didn't ingest anything, and I'm watching her closely and she's just fine. She was soaked, all of our furniture was soaked, everything. Everything was soaked.

We have an industrial carpet dryer right now to dry the carpet and are going to have to eventually pull it up. It's glued, so it's going to take a lot of time and a lot of money.

Anyway, I guess the point of this is that anyone considering buying an aluminum crate like I was, but hasn't done it yet, PLEASE do it. It will save you and your dog. I'm lucky she didn't hurt herself or eat my mattress and my drywall. I ordered an aluminum crate from here at like 1:30 this morning in pure desperation. She will have to be facing a wall until then.

I'm not mad at her. It's not her fault. But last night really turned out horribly. And I'm bummed we won't really have time for much training today because I have so much cleaning and shopping to do to repair and replace everything.

I just needed to share. Thanks for listening and to those on Facebook that have already helped me tremendously.

All I can say is "I feel for you". I didn't have the drywall holes and bedding torn, but about 15+ years ago I did leave a dog in the laundry room one day, and came home to find out she had somehow turned on the drain valve for the hot water heater. Water was GUSHING out, all day long. Luckily that part of the house was a step down from most of the rest of the house, water had gone under the laundry room door into a bedroom, they both had 2-3 inches of water in them, but it was otherwise prevented from getting into the rest of the house.

One tip, if you are going to pull up the carpet anyway, do it now, you'll have better luck with your floor boards drying out and not warping. That's what I had to do, but we were able to get the floor boards dried out in a couple of days, no warping, mold, etc. I'd worry the carpet will keep the boards from getting dried out completely and you may have a nasty surprise when you pull the carpet up a few weeks or months from now.

Thanks Kadi. What a horrible story. Glad everything worked out okay though. We did find mold on our wall behind the bed. Cool (not.)

Pics, or it didn't happen.

I should have taken some! But it was 1am, and I was exhausted. We took everything out of the room and are drying everything the best we can.

Wow, Katie...talk about a lousey ending to a perfect evening out. :-(

Unfortunately, the jailbreak proof aluminum crates are the only way to go with dogs that don't respect crates.

Can I get a crate for my boyfriend, he flooded the basement of our BRAND NEW house 2 weeks after moving in.

He unplugged the flote of the sump pump. BTW he is a ENG.

Wow sorry to hear about the khaos and glad to hear your dogs OK though the dog is probably still laughing, I know your not.

What kind of crate did he get out of?

Ariane, they're expensive but lock on the outside

Joe, she broke out of a Vari Kennel. Sigh.

I had one of those dogs as a foster. I was so glad when he left, but I never did find the keys to ALL of those padlocks. Had to throw the crate away. I got some really strange looks from my landlords when they came over to fix a window and saw a great dane sized crate completely padlocked together. I must have had 10 on there, and then I used four bull snaps on the door - one in each corner. You know, the kind that you have to actually have thumbs to undo and even then it's a hassle?

He never did any damage that I can recall, but it was scary since he was cat aggressive.