One hot summer day in August, I went to work just like any other day. At the time we did not have central air conditioning but units that you placed in the windows. The air conditioner units were quite old, but they still worked great except the accordion slides that were used to fill out the remainder of the window were no longer usable. So every summer, my husband would use a piece of plywood to keep the area around the air conditioners sealed closed.

When I returned from work, I was shocked to find my second Springer, Spencer, waiting inside the fence. He was very happy to see me! I know that when I left for work, I did not leave him outside. I looked around for my husband’s truck, but it was nowhere in sight. Then my neighbor approached me and said, “Your dog has been outside all day.” Now this was a mystery!

My husband was home soon after I had arrived and I explained the situation to him. He said that he did not leave Spencer out before he went to work, nor did he come home anytime during working hours. When I went inside the fenced yard, I noticed that Spencer had been sick sometime in the day with diarrhea. We all went inside and found that Spencer needed to be outside to use his yard, and worked to remove the plywood from the side of the air conditioner unit and crawl through the window. I do not know if we were lucky and Spencer just happened to use the window that took him to his fenced yard or if he realized that was the window he needed to use!

Tags: dog climb through window, dog diarrhea, sick dog

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