do it again...and again...and again.

My dog was acting off last night, this morning the cats have lost their mind.  Is it a full moon or something?  While we were gone, the cat gate broke to their room and the boys in their infinite wisdom did not know what to do so they just kept putting the broken gate back up - which would in turn fall over when the cats jumped over it.    This has emotionally scar the cats (God help me) so that now they are afraid to go into the room that has their litter box - which has led to them hiding poop in the house.  AWESOME.

I had a work around immediately - duct tape to hold the gate in place and I tried feeding them food and forcing them into the room to show the gate was solid.  This morning it proved to not have been successful.  After I cleaned up,  I switched gates (as I have two) thinking maybe the new gate would be more welcomed.  I guess I will have to see.  I asked my boys, why they thought the cats were afraid and their response was because the gate fell down like 12 times.  As I explained the duct tape approach, I was told - sorry I am not that inventive.  

This kind of scares me about the thought process that goes on.   Gate falls over, pick it up.  It is broken - it will definitely fall over again - oh well - put it back - TWELVE TIMES.    So not only was there no thought in how to solve the problem - there was irritation that I was irked they didn't try something - anything fix it.

I see this in more than just my boys.  I feel like it is my superpower or something - the ability to find workarounds and solutions in short order.   I am amazed at how many people become frozen in the face of an issue rather than just looking at basic mechanisms to get through the problem.

Of coarse, the dog this morning was fighting me to eat the poop and then I found him in the fireplace trying to eat the burnt embers from last night.  No wonder last night he seemed out of it, god knows what he ate.  I have no solution off the top of my head to prevent my dog from being a goat - other than locking him up.  Today is friday right?