Zoomba part 9: "Home" (EN)

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Here is what you need if you want to drag along your dog on a plane. A big plastic box with a door. Remembering how Zoomba reacted when only seeing a cage we were quite worried how we could have her get used to being locked up in one for a few hours.

So we tried by having the bench, inconspicuously, in the kitchen, without it's door. It was ignored. A snack, conspicuously thrown in, was retrieved and consumed without a flinch. Well, that isn't bad? Repeated that a few times. The next day her food was only to be had in the bench. No problemo.

Now with the door in, open. Still, no problem. Door closed. That was new! But, it was clawed a bit, and then she just laid down, and made no fuss.

Then it dawned on us that at SOSAdopta she probably was locked up in a cage at night, which is not unlike our bench, and she's quite used to that. Good! Another worry gone.

Meanwhile there still was no electricity. My theory was that all is actually fine, but that the RCD itself is damp, and thinks the whole house is in danger. With all switches OFF the RCD still switched everything OFF the moment the mains switch was ON.

Without electricity it's not easy to dry something. No hairdryer, no warm lamp. An RCD is a closed plastic box, not easy to get it's insides dry... We just had to wait, and keep the house ventilated. We tried putting a big pan with boiling water next to it, hoping that radiated heat would help, but no. (Quite tricky to position a big pan with boiling water next to the RCD..)

And eat early.
No tv.
No internet.
Survival!

Tune in next time to see if this family survived...!