Unlike our last apartment, our current apartment posts times when services will be doing things in the building. According to a sign on the wall, there was going to be a preventative extermination spraying sometime this week. Since we didn’t want anyone to know we had pets, we needed a way to hide the evidence of our dog in a hurry. Since exterminators tend to show up at surprising times and also want to go in every room we needed a solution other than, "Throw the dog in the closet".
Just as I was about to leave for the afternoon, there was a knock on the door. The time had arrived. The plan was quickly set in place. First, I ran out and grabbed the dog. Next, I hid the box of dog supplies. The water bottle was put behind a box, but I don’t know if it mattered or not. Then I huddled inside the bathroom with the dog while my wife answered the door. I turned on the shower to hide the sound of the dog panting and walking around. Yoshi was happy to be in the bathroom and not get a bath.
I can’t imagine that we fooled anyone. Unless the exterminator thinks I drink from a dish and have problems that require diaper pads for the floor I’m guessing she could figure out that we had a pet. In that regard, the plan was probably pointless. We don’t know if she is required to tell the security guards something if she has to, or if the security guards even care about pets now that the warnings have been taken down.
It’s probably best that we did put Yoshi in the bathroom for the spraying, as he likes to sniff everything and everyone, and whatever this lady was putting down on the floors was not something we wanted him eating. Even if the exterminator didn’t care, we prevented her from having to fend of our dog’s curious nose.
