Queen Ruby!

Queen Ruby came for a visit and excitement ensued!

Ruby is Marnie and Marnie's husband Dave's foster dog.  For the last 12 years they've looked after Ruby when her regular family is away.  Ruby is also Dave's other woman.  Ruby is adorable, entertaining, smart and sneaky.

Dave loves her with a passion. Ruby can do no wrong in his eyes.  Marnie isn't so blind.  But really, Ruby sets out to make Marnie's life stressful, so the devotion - not so much.

First off Ruby loves eating paper.  And she will find paper where there is no paper to be found.  She'll also sneak over and under gates, through mesh wire, unlatch doors and dig to satisfy her paper craving.  Marnie took Ruby for a walk and was horrified to see bits of chewed up check paper in Ruby's poop.  The worst part... Marnie's name was still legible on the paper!

Ruby's guilty face; caught in Marnie's studio where there is LOTS of paper

Ruby also hogs the bed.  It's Ruby's mission in life to make sure that Marnie has no room on their king size bed.

The dynamic duo after a long hard day

And this is not a big dog.  A precocious, attitude ridden dog yes, big no.  But you can't really blame Ruby.  She is treated like a princess.  Here's Dave drying her after a walk in the rain:

Such a mutual admiration society

This week's visit entailed much paper eating, some underwear chewing (this was new) and lots of Styrofoam ingesting. Marnie is still waiting for the ramifications to appear,  Really this week has boiled down to Marnie walking Ruby a lot so that Ruby can poop out everything she's eaten and Marnie can make sure it's all coming out.  Not fun.  Not fun at all.  But hilarious to hear about.  I love me a Ruby story.  The best comic relief ever!