Today was the first day I had to leave my dog alone at the apartment. Normally, he's a very well-behaved dog, and he'd been doing well with short periods of being left alone. The blind in my bedroom was already going to be replaced, so I wasn't too worried that he bent another of the veins. The blind was broken to begin with. Against my better judgement, I closed the door to the bedroom when I left him alone this afternoon, and he tore a hole in my carpet. I will be crating him from now on. I will probably have to retrain him to stay in the crate, since he hasn't been staying in the crate when left alone.
My nmom's suggestion is to talk to some of her "flooring people," remove a section of carpet from a closet, cover up the area that was ripped, then buy a section of carpet to go in the closet. I want to come clean to the apartment manager. She told me they would likely ask me to get rid of the dog and probably ask me to move since I've only been here four days. Now, I know a lot of other residents have dogs, much larger dogs, and I'm certain some of those dogs, chew, mess the floor, etc. No doubt, the maintenance staff already has a section of carpet, expressly for this purpose. I paid a $300 pet deposit, plus a security deposit on the apt. to cover damages that I might make. I know I can't be the only person who's rented there who had a dog tear a hole in the carpet.
I know this isn't really the purpose of the board, but the maintenace guy is coming tomorrow to replace the blind. I could just ask about the carpet then, and I really prefer honesty rather than trying to hide the damage and cover it up. That's what my mom always does, tries to cover things up and that makes it worse.
